Students take plunge to hang out for charity

MORE than 100 students jumped 170 feet for joy and for charity in Dublin yesterday.

With their feet attached to a very large elastic band they cheerfully leap from one of the highest cranes in the country to raise funds for Temple Street Children’s Hospital.

Thousands of Dublin Institute of Technology students turned up for the DIT Carnival and ran amuck in the greenfield site of DIT’s Grangegorman Campus, located just beside St Brendan’s Hospital.