Cork principal: 'People say everyone knows what it’s like going to school — they don’t'

When the cameras entered Carrigaline Community School for the reality series ‘A Rebel Education’ they found a student body of some 45 nationalities learning in an inclusive, liberal environment

Paul Burke, Principal Carrigaline Community School at Nigel's student coffee dock, opened in memory of the late Nigel Herlihy, school caretaker. Picture: Jim Coughlan.

Think Derry Girls meets Dead Poets Society, but unscripted and unexpectedly profound — that’s the documentary series A Rebel Education.

Over the course of an academic year, Virgin Media cameras ‘prowled’ the halls, classrooms, and corridors of Carrigaline Community School in Cork, capturing the chaos, humour, and humanity of Irish secondary education.