School railings vital for security

IT will cost around €10,000 to put a railing along the 100-metre wall on the boundary of St Olaf’s National School in south Dublin.

But the school only has €19.11 left from last year’s fund for running repairs and will not have its full 2002/2003 allocation until September at the earliest.

The 325-pupil school in Dundrum is on the pedestrian route to a LUÁS station being built nearby. But principal Ger Murphy said the work required to secure the school grounds has to be done this summer.