One old school, one new school and a schoolgirl gone before her time

THE Community College in Luttrellstown will be shy one new pupil today.

Michaela Davis wore her new uniform for the first time last week as she picked up her timetable for the coming year. Little was she to know that by the time the school year properly commenced, her young life would have been snuffed out in tragic circumstances.

The area where her body was found by a pensioner out for a walk on Saturday afternoon is lonely, overgrown, a narrow track sandwiched between the canal and the commuter rail line.