Fiadh Hunter’s face lights up with joy as waves crash over her and she is surrounded by the sounds of the ocean.
A turtle glides overhead as she is enveloped in the aquamarine of the tropics and the stress of the outside world melts away for a few minutes. But the seven-year-old is no where near the sea as she is immersed in the serenity of an alternate reality.
Instead she is relaxing in an unusual looking booth at a North Belfast primary school. The school, Mercy Primary on the Crumlin Road, has become one of the first in Northern Ireland to start using a cutting edge technology aimed at addressing a myriad of issues including anxiety and conditions like autism and ADHD.
