Ballymun Senior Comprehensive School has received a cheque for £4,800 from the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU), writes Padraig Yeates, Industry and Employment Correspondent. The money will be used to provide a CADCAM (Computer Assisted Design and Manufacture) system for engineering and technology students.
The money represents the amount paid to TEEU members for carrying out emergency lift repairs in the high-rise Dublin flats complex during last year's three-month strike.
Both the union and the lift contractor, Pickerings, were widely criticised at the time for failing to provide an emergency service to the 6,000 tenants.
Eventually a senior TEEU official, Mr Dan Miller, proposed that his own members do the work and the money be placed in a special fund which could be given back to the community when the dispute was over.
The school principal, Mr Tom Kilraine, said that the equipment would be a major asset to the school.