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Author: Our Reporter
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A young Galway girl who really cares about the planet’s future has lobbied her fellow primary school pupils to sign a petition – and has now sent over 760 signatures to the Taoiseach, demanding real action to help.
Beth O’Reilly is a pupil in Ballinderreen National School – and an eleven-year-old with a determination to make a difference.
“I really care about our planet and worry about climate change, so I started a petition asking the Government to take real action to help,” she explained.
She first canvassed kids in her own school, but then spread her campaign to other South Galway schools too, asking them if they wanted to sign – and got a brilliant response in Kinvara NS, Kilternan NS and Kilcolgan Educate Together.
“The petition was called ‘Climate Action not Climate Promises’ and it shows how much us kids really care about the future,” she said.
“I have sent it to the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, to encourage him to keep working hard for our future,” she added.
And now she wants to spread the message through local media – “so then maybe even more people might be inspired to do something, just as I was.”
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