Tánaiste visits Palestinian school on second day of Middle East trip

Tánaiste Micheál Martin meets a pupil at Beitunia vocational school, which is part-funded through Irish support.

Tánaiste Micheál Martin began the second day of his trip to the Middle East in Ramallah in the West Bank this morning, with a visit to a Palestinian school part-funded through Irish support.

Given a warm welcome by a delegation that included the Palestinian acting education minister Mahmoud Mosa Abu Mouis, Mr Martin had a tour of the all-girls Beitunia vocational school which gives vocational courses in dressmaking and hairdressing, as well as academic courses and the likes of coding and art.