March to remember road crash victims

A FUNERAL-style silent march of nearly 300 convent schoolgirls all dressed in black will take place in west Cork next week.

The dramatic protest by 279 pupils of the Mercy Heights Convent Secondary School — each of whom will represent a person who died in a road traffic accident last year — is a bid to create better public awareness of the need for road safety.

“Each student will have a sign showing that they represent one of the people who died on Irish roads throughout 2008 — and that each one of those killed is somebody, a mother, a daughter, a brother, a baby sister,” said teacher Orla O’Sullivan.