Pupils egg-static as knitting efforts raise vital funds for two charities

A GROUP of young classmates were so affected by illnesses of their friends’ relatives that they hatched their own plot to give a helping hand.

Proving that charity doesn’t just begin at home, the third and fourth class pupils came up with a novel way of raising money for groups working with sick people.

The group of almost 40 children from St Pádraig’s National School in Whitechurch, a few miles from Cork city, used their recently-acquired knitting skills to make little chickens to hold Easter eggs during the last school term. They reaped rich rewards for their efforts and last week presented cheques worth almost €900 to Marymount Hospice, which helps cancer patients in Cork, and the Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association.