Schools reopen: 'Fingers crossed, another two weeks, we have them all here'

Rebecca Cripps of Ms Crowley's junior infants class on her return to school at Bunscoil Chríost Rí, Turner's Cross, Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The happiness to be back trumped return-to school anxieties as 320,000 students re-entered classrooms this morning. 

“It was lovely to see them all come in,” said Teresa Coughlin, principal of Scoil Cliodhna, a primary school in Carrigtwohill, Cork.