Safety first for walk to school

IRELAND has surely changed massively since Alice Taylor was a child and her best-selling book, To School Through The Fields, describes a world that has long since disappeared.

In those times, every child walked to school, with some doing daily round trips of well over 10km in rural areas.

Daily traffic jams outside schools were still generations away and walking to school was a great way to learn about their locality, nature and wildlife, which many of today’s children lose out on.