Cork's first accredited ADHD-friendly school announced 

Beaumont Boys' School in Blackrock has been certified by ADHD Ireland as a school that's friendly and open to the neurological difference

Nicola Coss, National Service Development Manager ADHD Ireland; Fiona Meehan, Principal and Mags Moore, Deputy Principal, Beaumont Boys' School, Cork. 

Advocacy organisation ADHD Ireland has been working with schools around the country to pilot its developing Schools Accreditation Programme, aimed at making educational spaces more accepting and inclusive of the neurological difference.

Last week, among the first wave of schools to become ADHD Ireland accredited was a primary school in Cork. Beaumont Boys' School, in Blackrock, is the first ADHD-friendly primary school in the Cork region, committing to accommodating and expanding their knowledge of the issue, which affects one in 20 school-going children in Ireland.