Electrostatic cleaning and perspex screens: Ursulines prepare to welcome students back

Miriam Clifford, school secretary sorting out the PPE and signage at Ursuline secondary school, Blackrock, Cork. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

Clearing out classrooms to make sure there is enough room for social distancing has led to a new conundrum for schools: what to do with the associated desks and debris?

“We’ve lots of desks stacked up at the back of our PE hall after we cleared out the rooms,” Patrick McBeth, the principal of Ursuline Secondary School in Blackrock, Cork told the Irish Examiner.