Students prepare to ditch books in favour of iPads

Come September, up to 100 children attending a secondary school in Co Cork will no longer have to lug around backbreaking satchels.

And Coláiste Treasa in Kanturk plans to phase out all books within five years.

School principal Seamus Buckley said all first-year pupils entering the school in the autumn will use iPads and ebooks for their education.