School’s out after water pipe bursts

MORE than 600 pupils got an unexpected day off due to a burst pipe which caused tens of thousands of euro worth of damage to a secondary school in north Cork.

The pupils were met by staff at St Mary’s Secondary School in Mallow yesterday morning to be told that classes had to be abandoned because of the accident.

Principal Sr Bríd Biggane, said that, overnight, a pipe had become disconnected from a water heater in the first-floor staff room.When the caretaker arrived at 7.15am he discovered water pouring through a ceiling into the canteen area.