Class action: Primary schools go all out to get the Green Flag

Some 4,000 schools across the country are taking part in a seven-step initiative to help environmental management and raise awareness, writes Áilín Quinlan AT 2.50pm each day, four schoolboys in the West Cork town of Clonakilty leave their classrooms to collect their special ‘bibs’ and litter-picker sticks.

At 2.50pm each day, four schoolboys in the West Cork town of Clonakilty leave their classrooms to collect their special ‘bibs’ and litter-picker sticks.

They head out into the playgrounds and football pitches surrounding Scoil na mBuachaillí to collect rubbish.