Spending €50,000 on PPE and cancelling hurling: the steps schools are taking to get students back

Preparations are underway at primary and secondary schools across the country to make classrooms ready to receive pupils in the coming weeks.

Seamus O'Ceallacháin, Principal Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, who is getting ready to open the school doors next week. Picture: Howard Crowdy

‘Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine’, people live in each other's shadows, and 'ní neart go cur le chéile’, no strength without unity.

Those are the seanfhocail helping Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, in Youghal, County Cork power through as the school prepares to welcome back close to 1,000 secondary school students shortly.