Grassroots environmentalists

A North Cork pre-school has won awards for teaching pupils the benefits of water conservation and water recycling, writes education correspondent Niall Murray

IT’S 10.30am on a Tuesday and 25 boys and girls sit attentively on little doughnut-shaped, plastic-covered cushions.

Olga Fitzgerald and the other two preschool teachers at the Bright Sparks childcare centre just outside Mitchelstown are hosting the monthly class meeting about their Green Schools programme.