Homes and businesses in Dublin are being urged to donate disused laptops to help economically disadvantaged Leaving Cert students keep up their studies online. The laptops will mainly be distributed to students in schools in the Department of Education's DEIS programme for disadvantaged communities. Leaving Cert pupils will have priority and 20 DEIS schools with students in need have already been identified. "Leaving Cert students were not logging on. As we rang each home the reason was very clear - our students' homes do not have laptops, wifi or space to study," she said.

Source: Irish Independent April 15, 2020 01:30 UTC