Children plan high jinks for lifeboats

LITTLE children with big hearts will build the tallest toy tower in Ireland in the shadow of the country’s tallest building to raise money for the lifeboats.

The doors of the 17-storey Elysian Tower in Cork will be thrown open to the public on Bank Holiday Monday as part of a novel fundraiser for the Courtmacsherry lifeboat.

Tower developer Michael O’Flynn wants the children of Cork to stack 11,000 plastic bricks to create a model of the tower in the garden of the €150 million landmark building in the city centre.