Pupils flush away wasteful habits

At one school in Cobh, Co Cork, pupils have been hard at work finding ways to increase their green credentials, much to the pleasure of the teachers and principal, writes education correspondent Niall Murray

A MEETING of young minds at a Cork school is generating ideas about how to care more for the world and for the people around them.

These boys and girls are some of the green flags committee at Rushbrooke National School, just outside Cobh. Their duties are many and varied, but all the members are keen on the work for the green schools programme, sometimes taking time out of their lunch breaks to share ideas.