Cork students coming to school hungry every day as parents struggle to make ends meet

Cork school principal says families going to food banks is a 'damning legacy for our Government'.

The chief executive of the Children’s Rights Alliance, Tanya Ward, has said that now with schools closed for the summer, the risk of what she described as “holiday hunger” increases.

“There are students who come to school hungry every day. There’s no reason why that suddenly stops now.”

This is according to the principal at Deis school Coláiste Éamann Rís, Aaron Wolfe, who was speaking to The Echo with the summer break now well underway.