This afternoon.
The launch of World Book Day (which takes place tomorrow) an initiative ‘to encourage children to explore the pleasure of books and reading’.
Authors Shane Hegarty (Darkmouth); Derek Landy (Skullduggery Pleasant) and David O’Doherty (Danger Is Everywhere) joined a flock of Educate Together bookworm tearaways in Trinity Hall, Trinity College, Dublin
Pic 2: Shane Hegarty and Kathy Moore; Pic 3: Derek Landy with Ella Gremms; Bottom pic, adults from left: David O’Doherty, Shane Hegarty, Erika McGann, Steven Butler and Derek Landy with tykes, from left: Sayo Owolah, Ali Khan, Aansa Irfan, Luke O Beirns, all rom Educate Together, Balbriggan, Co Dublin.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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Appallingly politically correct tokenism.
You’d prefer the old tokenism of six or seven priests at the back and a row of altar boys down the front then?
(the girls were in doing Home Ec)
You’re a sad man Eamonn
No, this is realism – going by the Ed.Together schools I know.
It could be tokenism or it could be that a lot of upwardly-mobile new immigrants push their kids into such book programmes (and other extra-curricular activities) to raise their education levels and hopefully later thier opportunities, while the while Irish kids of similar economic back-grounds are playing xBox after school on the family widescreen TV half the size of their parent’s tiny living rooms.
Derek Landy is a gentleman and a scholar.