An ice bucket challenge tinged with sadness

School children got top marks for drenching their teachers in a very special ice bucket challenge tinged with sadness.

The sixth-class students of Ovens National School in Co Cork were given special permission to dump several buckets of water over the school’s teaching staff on Friday in a fundraiser for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA).

But while everyone had great fun watching their teachers get soaked, they also paused to remember the school’s former principal, Denis Lynch, who died from motor neurone disease earlier this year.