Students enrol in school armed with iPads

When Timmy Sheehan first attended secondary school, he was “lucky to have a book and a pencil”.

Yesterday, he watched as his granddaughter Jade enrolled at Coláiste Treasa in Kanturk, Co Cork, armed with an iPad.

She was one of 91 first-year pupils provided with the tablet computer which will be phased in for all pupils at the North Cork school over the next few years.