Cork principal says staff and students 'safe' in Turkey following deadly earthquake

Staff and students from Coláiste Éamann Rís from left to right: Aaron Wolfe, Edel Farrell, Sean Buckley, Sophia Kedxia, Giovanna Marques Zanolli, Abigail Taylor, Jack O Neil, Santiago Costa

Staff members and students from a Cork City school have avoided disaster as their travel destination in Turkey was hit by a devastating earthquake.

A group of eight from Coláiste Éamann Rís, Deerpark, was due to travel to a partner school in Malatya as part of an Erasmus programme and had been in Istanbul when the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck.