Pupils tackle publisher over gender and race inequalities

One of the country’s oldest education publishers is to revisit a series of school books, after young students in a Dublin national school highlighted gender and race inequality.

Book company Folens has agreed to review its Fuimeanna and Focail series after fifth class girls in Mary Help of Christians NS in Dublin 7 wrote to them.

In a letter to the school, they said: “We reviewed the book ourselves internally and would agree with the conclusions that you reached in relation to gender and equality representation.