Marathon man principal hits road for school gym

A PRINCIPAL is taking a day off from running his school to run in the Dublin City Marathon and raise money for a school gym.

Frustrated by three years of delays in getting department funding for a new building incorporating a gym, Bill Reidy will run the marathon on October 25, along with Mary Sugrue, a fifth-class teacher at John F Kennedy Memorial School in Limerick.

Both runners will wear T-shirts protesting at delays in the Department of Education giving the go-ahead for a state-of-the-art new building. The building has been at the planning stage for more than three years.