Gas board staff boost North Mon literacy

GAS board staff will be reading more than meters over the next six months as they devote their energy to help local children improve their literacy skills.

The pupils of Scoil Mhuire Fatima in the North Monastery on Cork’s northside are to benefit from the voluntary assistance of 10 Bord Gáis employees. At their first reading session yesterday, second class pupil Adam Conway and Bord Gáis grid control worker Joseph Greene were knuckling down to Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick.

“In my old school, people knew stories about Horrid Henry so I picked this one. I read a lot, I just finished my last book, it was a fact file about dinosaurs,” said the young Manchester United fan.