Cork teen pens poem on homelessness

A transition year student from Cork has scooped the top award in a competition which asked secondary school students to write about their experiences with homelessness.

Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Canavan O’Driscoll who attends Mount Saint Michael in Rosscarbery, Co Cork, won the Young Writers Award - #WriteForHome competition for her poem ‘Music is the medicine of the mind’, in which she spoke about using music to help her get through her family’s struggles with homelessness.