Model United Nations conference sparks student debate

Teenagers at a North Cork school brought children from Angola, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Austria to Cork City Hall to join pupils from 22 Irish second- level schools as part of the country’s largest model United Nations conference.

Before yesterday’s Davis College general assembly and conference kicked off, the almost 400 young people taking part in the student-run simulation of the UN General Assembly heard from Amnesty International Ireland president, Colm O’Gorman.

He urged them before they began debating topics like migration, alternative energy, UN reform, and youth radicalisation to ask “what can we achieve”.