'We need to do more': Young people protest about climate change

Alicia O'Sullivan, UCC Students Union environmental officer, (left) and Amy O'Brien, climate justice activist, two of the speakers at a pre-strike rally at UCC organised by UCC Students Union. Picture: Denis Minihane

Thousands of young people were back on the streets after lockdown to demand that politicians take stronger action to curb climate change.

There were gatherings in Cork, Galway and Dublin at lunchtime on Friday, to coincide with similar rallies in cities around the world, as part of the global climate strike movement inspired by Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg, who joined a Fridays for Future protest in Berlin.