School principal takes leave to join humanitarian effort in Med

A West Cork school principal has take a leave of absence to assist with the refugee crisis in the Greek island of Leros.

Carmel Nic Airt from Clonakilty’s Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin said she was moved by footage of the horrendous conditions in which refugees risked their lives to reach Greece from Turkey. Departing today, she will spend a month in Greece.

Ms Nic Airt had also met Syrian refugee children in Marburg, Germany, last November when she visited a school twinned with the Clonakilty Gaelscoil.