School living it up after helping bridge ethnic divide
The north city school, which ran a multicultural summer school for six weeks this year, took the top post-primary prize in the education category of the 2003 Guinness Living Dublin Awards.
“We set up the summer school four years ago to cater for a lot of foreign students who were in the school,” said Michael Kilbride, who began the project and runs the post-primary section at O’Connell’s. “Up to last year between 25% and 28% of our students would be foreign nationals and we have about 30 different nationalities.”
