Irish Teacher: Here's how a Wexford school blossomed into biodiversity

The initiative is ‘therapeutic’ for students who get to plant and connect with nature

Jennifer Horgan, Diary of an Irish Schoolteacher. Pic: Larry Cummins

Ireland is bad at sustainability.

Our briefly elected politicians make short-term decisions, with little consideration for future citizens. The debacle over turf was one example, the maternity hospital is another. Just as we start to haemorrhage tax money to the Church to reconfigure our primary schools, we sign a 300-year lease to build our much-needed maternity hospital on Church land.