Dublin breakfast club scheme launched in Finglas

PUPILS at St Joseph’s Girls’ School and St Kevin’s Boys’ School in Finglas got a free hearty breakfast last week at the launch of a new breakfast club scheme from a Dublin sausage making firm.

The initiative from Kearns Sausages will provide school children across the capital with a with a free warming and filling breakfast one morning a week and the company is calling on more local businesses and underprivileged schools to get involved.

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‘Kearns Breakfast Club’ is beginning with the students of St Kevin’s and St Joseph’s and principal of the girls’ school, Aine Fitzgerald, is backing the scheme.

“Kearns exceptional generosity has been warmly welcomed by pupils and their families and I would urge school and community leaders across similar areas of the capital to get involved,

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“It is wonderful to see a business giving back to the community. Our breakfast club has been providing children with a warm and healthy meal each morning for almost 15 years. However we have recently lost our breakfast club staff funding which is a huge concern.

“It was reported in a recent nationwide survey that there are more children coming to school without a breakfast than in recent years.

“We are all too aware of the long-term issues associated with children coming to school hungry. As a teacher, I have seen the clear difference in educational performance between pupils who do and those who do not eat breakfast each morning.

“I would also like to appeal to any local businesses in Finglas to contact me at the school if they would be willing to sponsor our breakfast club for the next school year.

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Sales and Marketing Manager with Kearns Sausages, Ciaran Young, shared Ms Fitzgerald’s sentiment and spoke of the immense social value to be gained from assisting schools that are struggling with staff funding for with their breakfast clubs.

“By joining the ever-expanding community of Kearns Breakfast Clubs, parents and guardians of young children attending schools throughout Dublin can send their children out to school each morning, confident in the knowledge that they will receive a warming and filling breakfast as soon as they arrive,

? he said.

“We are delighted to be involved in this valuable social initiative and look forward to warmly welcoming more Dublin schools to our community of breakfast clubs in the months ahead.

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Kearns Sausages have been in business for over 100 years. The much-loved brand was first produced in Parnell Street by master butcher, John Kearns, in 1905 and the original recipe is still used today.