Sport and music classes aim to keep children in city schools

SPORT and music are to be brought into Limerick classes from pre-school upwards to help keep young people from dropping out of school as part of a €6 million funding programme.

About €4m of the investment announced yesterday for third level colleges in the mid west to tackle social disadvantage will go to classroom initiatives.

The project, being supported by the Strategic Innovation Fund, is to be led by the University of Limerick with Limerick Institute of Technology, Mary Immaculate College of Education and Institute of Technology, Tralee.