End of line for empty school

FOR the past seven weeks school principal Denis O’Sullivan turned up in his classroom from Monday to Friday anxious to pass on to children some of the knowledge accumulated over a long career in education.

The only problem was when he reached the school building there were no pupils in sight.

The bizarre situation had arisen at Scoil Mhuire National School in Clonkeen, Co Kerry, where no pupils had enrolled for the current academic year.