Few tears for tiny tots on very first day of big school [Independent.ie]
- Published: 31 August 2010
RECORD numbers of pupils are back in primary school this week as enrolments top the 510,000 mark for the first time.
And the upward trend looks set to continue for the foreseeable future with more than 75,000 recorded births in 2008, the highest for more than a century, and a similarly high number in 2009.
In Dublin, there were few tears as 44 children started their first day in Junior Infants at a city centre school.
The two new classes took to the new environment with gusto, Noirin Flynn, the acting principal of the Mater Dei primary school on Basin Lane, said.
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