Limerick school re-enacts 1916 walk

Staff and pupils from one of the country’s oldest primary schools have taken a stroll down memory lane to celebrate their centenary anniversary.

St Patrick’s National School in Limerick celebrated the historic occasion with a special re-enactment walk yesterday.

Dressed up in period costumes, teachers and pupils walked from the original girls’ primary school behind St Patrick’s Church on the Dublin Road, which had first opened in 1865, to the present school building, which opened exactly 100 years ago.