Children save 1.35m kilometres in school trips

Irish children’s mission to make the world greener and cleaner saved 1.35m kilometres of school trips last year under just one part of the expanding Green Schools programme.

At ceremonies to award green flags to dozens of schools for their latest endeavours, some of the rewards of their work were pointed out.

Birgit O’Driscoll of An Taisce told children from schools in Cork, Clare, Kilkenny, and Waterford that one of the programmes had seen 9,000 students move to more sustainable forms of transport.