“IT LOOKS LIKE it was plucked out of the daydream of a bored schoolchild, in the middle of a tedious maths lesson.

But this impressive structure on the GMIT campus in Mayo is very real and is the result of months of work by a group of students and one lecturer at the institute of technology.

Dr Davy Walsh explained that he has been using the woodland trail on the Mayo campus for a variety of different classes and the outdoor classroom is an extension of this.

The two main students involved with the building were Andreas Koeing, who, conveniently, happened to be a master weaver, and Aodhan Conneely who had been heavily involved in the woodland trail project”. Read more here