Fears conquered as students abseil off the last remaining Ballymun tower block for charity.
Over 100 students from Trinity Comprehensive School in Ballymun discover if they have a head for heights by participating in a charity abseil. The task involves abseiling down the side of Joseph Plunkett Tower, the last remaining Ballymun Tower.
The school has been involved in the event for over 10 years, and this year the students are raising funds for Our Lady's Children’s Hospital, Crumlin. Teacher Frances Neary insists the pupils love the challenge,
The energy and the atmosphere that it builds up around the school and everybody from the community comes over to enjoy in the day so it’s a massive success.
Dropping down the 4 -metre side wall of Plunkett Tower is not for the faint-hearted. One pupil thinks she will do it although,
Everybody was crying, but then they got it, so I think that I’ll get it too.
It is almost the end of the line for this event because in 2014 Joseph Plunkett Tower is scheduled for demolition.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 November 2009. The reporter is Samantha Libreri.
