Lessons in how to juggle resources

A small West Cork primary school has to deal with challenges that are common to many rural schools, writes Education Correspondent, Niall Murray in part one of a three-day series

IT’S a misty morning and as radio commentators discuss the billions of euro being repaid to bank bondholders, Mary Leahy’s junior infants are learning to draw the number 2.

“Around and back on the railroad track,” recites one of the 12 boys and girls in their second term at Dromleigh National School, Kilmichael, as she draws on the whiteboard.