Primary school celebrates 125th birthday

PUPILS celebrating 125 years of education in a Cork parish include five great-great-grandchildren of one of the first teachers at the school.

Rusheen National School, about eight kilometres from Macroom, opened its doors in April 1885 with pupils taught by Eliza O’Riordan and principal John Ambrose.

The current principal Gerard Coakley, a past-pupil, has been dusting down the old school registers and enthralling the 91 children with the records of yesteryear.