Schoolgirl who lobbied Obama visits energy centre

THE schoolgirl who wrote an inspirational letter to Barack Obama pleading for action on climate change has visited Ireland’s power control hub.

Niamh Burke, aged 17, from Rochestown in Cork, wrote the letter — published in the Irish Examiner last month — as a homework assignment.

Writing as the “air”, she urged President Obama to harness wind energy to produce clean renewable energy for the whole planet.