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Wednesday, 19th December, 2012. Vol. 5, Issue 51 • 63 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Tel: 042 9320888. Fax: 042 9329676. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Christmas comes early for local boyA LOCAL family are cele-brating an early Christmas present after a young boy emerged unscathed follow-ing a freak festive accident.

The boy was out shopping with family members when he fell from an escalator in the Penneys shop in the Marshes.

Shocked onlookers feared the boy had been seriously hurt in the fall, but fortu-nately he was uninjured, al-though somewhat shaken, by the incident.

It is understood the boy was climbing on the outer-side of the escalators leading to the first floor when he fell. Staff, shoppers and family reacted quickly in coming to his aid.

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tended the scene and the boy was taken to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital but he did not suffer any serious injury.

One shopper who was in Penneys at the time of the accident described what she saw. “I was just after coming from the till when I heard screaming and people run-ning to the balcony.

“Somebody said that a child had fallen down and we could hear screams from downstairs. There was a woman crying and every-body was in shock. We were all just hoping that every-thing would be ok.

“We didn’t want to go over to see exactly what happened so we just left the shop at that stage”, she added.

Penneys confirmed the incident occurred in the

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Sean McArdle from Scoil Mhuire na nGael meets Santa

There was plenty of Christ-mas cheer in St Oliver’s nurs-ing home on Monday morn-

ing as the residents were treated to gifts and carol singing from the generous pupils of Scoile Mhuire na nGael primary school.

The Bay estate students vis-ited the centre as part of the intergenerational project between the

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Santa is used to travelling around the world in style on his reindeer driven sleigh but last week 120 Santa’s took to the streets of Dundalk to take part in the 2012 fun run.The Dundalk Chamber of Commerce who organised the event said they were de-lighted with how the day went and praised the people of Dundalk for pulling to-gether to help local charities.“On behalf of the organising committee of Dundalk Charity Lunch and Santa Fun Run we would like to thank everyone who assisted in making both events a phe-nomenal success. Over 100 Santas took part in the fun run and over 200 where booked into the lunch.“The events raised in excess of €18,000 including in-kind toys. Each of the nomi-nated charities received a cheque on the day for €2,500 and the toys where distrib-uted to St Brigid’s School and other local charities. Additionally a local child, Travis Foley received a trip to Euro Disney worth €2000”, said organiser, Michael Farrell

DkIT students have given the college the green light to expand their facilities and purchase the JJB Sports Complex.

Last week students were asked to vote on approving the purchase as college authorities will impose a €125 additional fee starting next year. More than 1127 people voted, 66% of whom supported the college’s expansion.

The Students Union remained impartial during the campaign according to President David Brannigan.

“We provided information for both sides and let people make up their own minds. We just wanted to make sure they were informed when they

were going to vote”, he said.

Mr Brannigan thinks that the purchase is a good move for the college and that it represents good value for students. The students will have full gym membership including a swimming pool, steam rooms, hot tubs, 450 free parking spaces as well as a free shuttle bus between the campus and complex.

However as basic fees are due to increase by a further €250 in September not all DkIT students are happy with the additional €125 charge.

“We know one in three students are not happy with it but in this case the majority rules.” The SU president said that they will look at solutions where students legitimately

cannot afford to pay the additional cost. We will continue to represent those students in the same way we always have,” he said.

President of the college Denis Cummins welcomed the news saying that the college now has among the best facilities in the country and hopes that the purchase will be completed early next year.

“As well as catering for the needs of our clubs and societies we can now develop a whole new range of sports related programmes such as sports science, sports psychology and sports administration. The reopening of the JJB centre will not only benefit DkIT but the entire north east region,” he said.

Students give green light to JJBBy Niamh Kirk

A PIECE of Olympic and Women’s history has made its home in Co Louth as memorabilia from Beatrice Hill-Lowe’s appearance at the 1908 Games has been acquired by the county Museum.

Lowe was a native of Louth and Ireland’s first female Olympian. Her bronze medal for archery from the 1908 Olympic Games is a part of the ‘Patriot Games: Ireland and the Olympic 1896 -2010’ collection. The collection is being

housed in Louth County Museum only until renovations in the Ardee castle are complete.

More than 100 years ago Ireland was a constituent part of the UK and Hill-Lowe

competed as an archer as part of the team for Great Britain. It was the only sport at the time that was open to women as they had to be fully covered while competing.

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A 49-yeAr-Old music teacher faces a huge inconvenience in terms of his employment prospects after being disqualified from driving for three years.

Paul McCreevy of 16 Castle Heights, Castlebellingham, was

banned at dundalk district Court after pleading guilty to a drink driving charge.

The court heard that the loss of licence will be a huge inconvenience for the traditional musician as he travels to people’s houses to

teach music. The defendant had been stopped by Gardai on August 23 this year at Castletown road, dundalk. He had been veering over the road and clipped a kerb before being stopped by Gardai. He stated that he had musical

instruments in the car and didn’t think it would be safe to leave it parked in town.

Judge Flann Brennan also imposed a €400 fine and deferred the disqualification until May 1, 2013. Other matters were struck out.

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‘The Gooch’ is special guest for St Vincent’s Trade FairWEDNESDAY December 12 saw the culmination of months of hard work for the TY students in St. Vincent’s Secondary School with the annual Christmas Trade Fair. The TY students involved worked so hard with their business teachers Linda McCusker and Cora McBride in setting up their companies from idea generation and development early in September to market research to see if their ideas would sell and then into production in the hope of making a profit at the trade fair.

Fifteen stands were in place at the trade fair with various companies selling a range of cards, cupcakes, baked goods and sweets perfect for the Christmas market. Not to be forgotten were ‘2 Catriona’ who asked to have a stand in aid of the Jack and Jill Foundation where they sold various baked goods and raffle tickets for some lovely prizes. They raised a fantastic amount of money for the charity so well done to them.

The highlight of the day had to be the arrival of Colm “The Gooch” Cooper who officially opened the schools AIB Build a Bank Challenge. He made a lovely speech wishing the girls well with their challenge

of opening and running the school bank called “Rags to Riches Bank” for the year to encourage our students to save even a small amount each week.

The girls involved in the Build a Bank Challenge include Aoife Malone, Katie Laverty Bent, Meabh Sloane, Claire Cooney, Annabelle Morris and Meabh O Hanrahan.

With the help of Sheila Breen the local student officer from AIB Dundalk and

their teacher Linda McCusker the girls open the bank on a weekly basis and try to encourage the students to open accounts and save on a regular basis.

Colm stayed in the school for over two and a half hours meeting students, getting photos taken and signing autographs for all the girls and meeting the very successful Gaelic team, illustrating just why he is such an inspiration to all the young players in the country.

Some of the pupils who took part in the St Vincents Trade Fair with Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper


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LOCAL students braved the icy conditions to take part in annual 5K Santa Dash to raise funds for the Make a Wish Foundation.

St Louis Transition Year students embraced the cold day that was Sunday December 9 and decked themselves head to toe in Santa cos-tumes to run in the an-nual 5K Santa Dash in Dublin. The race was to

raise funds for Make a Wish Foundation, a foundation that aims to grant the wishes of chil-dren with life-threaten-ing illnesses.

Training for the 5K was the first project of the Transition Year PE programme. The train-ing programme lasted eight weeks which in-volved running three times a week, and to reach being able to run a 5K a lot of dedication was required.

“I was apprehensive about bringing up the idea of the 5K training programme, I wasn’t sure how they would all take to it. But I was pleasantly surprised,” explained PE teacher Kate O’Byrne. “I couldn’t get over the commitment and dedi-cation of the group each week.”

After the training was finished the group want-ed to run in a 5K race and picked the Santa

Dash as the race they wanted to compete in.

“The Santa Dash was for such a great cause and we knew it wouldn’t be really competitive as it is a family event, plus we thought it would be cool to race dressed as Santa” said TY student Emily Reilly.

Over 1000 participat-ed in the race in Dublin all dressed as Santa Claus and all St Louis students finished the race in great time.

THE Dundalk Lions Club have launched a new helpline card to try and tackle the ongoing problems with regard to bullying amongst young people.

The problem of bullying and suicide amongst children was outlined recently in an NUI study which showed that 17% of all children had been victims of bullying.

The study among Irish second-level students aged 12 to 18 found cyber-bullying usually goes on for one to two weeks, but can last for several years.

It also claimed that up to 25% of those who are bullied did not confide in anyone.

Tadhg O’Sullivan from the Dundalk Lions Club said he

hoped the cards would be of use to schoolchildren while urging those who are affected by bullying to speak about their problems rather than bottling it up.

“In producing and sponsoring the card we were conscious of the increasing level of suicides involving young people and the increased levels of bullying/cyber bullying.

“The card contains helpline numbers for among other services drug counselling/suicide and bullying/cyber bullying and for people with depression and parents under stress.” explained Tadhg.

Anyone wishing to obtain copies of the card should apply on the Lions Club website at www.dundalklionsclub.ie.

local students run for a great ClausBy Jessica Shields

lions Club help tackle bullying

Pictured at the launch of the new helpline card were Bush PP TRansition Year students and Tadhg O’Sullivan of the Lions Club

By Paul Byrne


The dancers.

Nicky McCourt as Cru-ella De Vile.

Paudie Breen as Dame Maria Poppins.

Mary Alice Larkin as Prince Charmalot and Ciara Quigley as Snow White.

The tots.

The junior dancers.ONCE upon a time, 20 years ago Dundalk Musical Society revived the tradition of pantomime in Dun-dalk. Twenty years later it is bigger than ever and is

the event which traditionally brings the curtain down on the Christmas festivities here in town.This year’s offering is the wonderful story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which opens at An Tain Theatre on Tuesday 8th until Sunday 13th of January 2013 at 8pm nightly with matinee performances on Sat 12th and Sun 13th at 3pm.Booking is now open at the Town Hall Box Office, and tick-ets are great value at €12 for evening shows and €10 for the matinee.The show features an amazing cast of local talent, with over 80 children and young adults taking to the stage as members of the chorus, whose singing and dancing will enchant audiences and transport them to the village of Happyville.Overseeing the story as Narrator is Katie Halligan, who tells the story of Snow White played by Ciara Quigley and her quest to find true love with Prince Charmalot Mary-Alice Larkin.Daddy White played by Stephen Clarke is unaware that his wicked wife Cruella De Vile played by doyen of the panto world Nicky McCourt is making Snow White’s life a misery.To the rescue comes Maria Poppins played by Paudie Breen, who along with magical fairy Strawberry Jam and the Man in the Mirror played by Joan Wilson and Brian Ke-ough respectively try to save the day.Along the way we meet the dynamic duo’s of Bippy and Boppy, Craig McHugh and Patrick Browne who with Lotty and Dotty, Laura McKinley and Deirdre Kenny add some great comedy moments to the show.Panto regulars Jason Kelly and Oliver Hanratty return to take charge of the sing-a-long and watch the audience do battle in a dance off!Last but not least the seven dwarfs who are the heroes of the show offering shelter and protection to the damsel in distress, Doc (Scott McHugh), Happy (Eoghan Weldon), Sneezy (Zoe Valentine), Dopey (Dillon Byrne), Sleepy (Oi-sin Reynolds), Bashful (Ruairi Reynolds) and Grumpy (Kelly Breen) who complete the list of wonderful characters.Writer and Director Rob Murphy returns to oversee pro-ceedings this year and adds his magic touch to this timeless tale, assisting Rob and bringing the music to life through her amazing choreography is Sarah Carpenter.Ensuring everyone is note perfect and singing beautifully is the job of chorus mistress Geraldine Casey who takes charge of the baton.Not forgetting our amazing backstage crew who under the leadership of Niall McCooey will ensure the set is moved with seemless precision, Costume Mistress Phyllis Woods will make sure everyone is looking their best, and our amazing live band led by Kevin Donnelly will have the au-diences dancing in the isles.Tickets are sure to disappear quicker than a tin of Roses and early booking is advised, tickets to the panto make a wonderful stocking filler and are available from the Town Hall Box Office or on 042 9392919.


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THE Christmas period around Blackrock would not be com-plete without a Conor Hughes fundraiser to entertain the masses on Blackrock beach and this St Stephen’s Day sees that trend continue with the theme of the fundraiser being the humble ’bee’.

This 26th of December in Blackrock will see the launch of a new self-help initiative for pov-erty stricken West Africian com-munities.

For every €65 raised, Cross-

cause can place a bee hive with a rural family. When the honey bees have produced,the honey it is then sold for the benefit of the family In keeping with the project, St Stephen’s day will be all about Bees.

The highlight will be an all day variety concert featuring such artists as BEE-oynce, The BEE-eatles and of course Sting.

Speaking ahead of the fund-raiser Crosscause founder Conor Hughes called for everybody in the area to come out and support the fundraiser.

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along and enjoy the show, espe-cially if they dress as a bee” he explained

“All singers,dancers,and co-medians are welcome to come and perform,with these great in-ternational stars! The idea of the fundraiser is of course to raise money for these West African communities but as always we’ll be having lots of fun whilst doing so” added Conor.

The action starts at 12 midday and continues until everybody buzzes off.

Give Conor a buzz on 087-9674829 for any inquiries.

Dance Kids back in Town HallFREDA Hearty and the Dance Kids are back once more with their Christmas show ‘Deck The Halls’’ which takes place on December 28 and 29 in An Tàin Thea-tre.

‘Deck The Halls’ is jam packed full of all Christmas favourites as well as a wonderful ex-cerpt of Oliver, which is sure to tug at your heart strings.

The talented dancers will also be performing to many favourites such as Pink, Cheryl Cole and Shrek the Musical to name just a few that are guaranteed to have audi-

Conor has Blackrock buzzing again

Dance Kids will take to the Town Hall again

ences of every age danc-ing and singing along in their seats.

Freda Hearty and the Dance Kids are re-

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amazing €130,000 for charity. This year pro-ceeds from ‘Deck The Halls’ will be donated to local charities.

By Paul Byrne


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dundAlk Town watch scheme have issued their seasonal guidance to all to “Shop Safely” this Christmas.

drawing members from Gardai, public and private partnerships, the scheme works to provide a communication mechanism sharing information on local retail crime and hoping

to contribute to safe shopping throughout dundalk.

Scheme Chairman Sean Farrell offered this advice for all the towns patrons to “please enjoy the season and the shopping offer in dundalk” by keeping your property safe and secure and taking a few simple precautions.

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Comedian takes to the ice

DUNDALK’S brand new skating Rink had an un-expected high profile visitor over the weekend when Channel 4’s ‘8 out of 10 cats’ star Sean Lock took to the ice with his daughter on Sunday afternoon.

The star of the popular comedy panel game show was preparing to travel from Dublin to Belfast for a gig when he found out that Dundalk had recently become home to an outdoor ice skating rink.

As Adrian Conlon from the Brew Crew Café company explains the funny man lists ice skating as one of his favourite pastimes and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put his skates on.

“We were working at the Square all weekend be-side the ice rink selling coffee when we saw Sean Lock arrive with his daughter” explained Adrian.

“He came over and had a coffee with us and we just had the craic with him for a few minutes. He told us he had heard Dundalk had a new ice rink and as he was going to Belfast decided to stop in town for an hour to skate with his daughter”

“He told us he had been a fan of ice skating for many years and he stayed for an hour and skated away with his daughter before heading off to Bel-fast. It was a bit weird to think that he was skating in Dundalk but it was great to meet him and say hello” added Adrian.

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The first Junior Chef Challenge was won by Ultan Larney and Glenn McCourt

STUDENTS from throughout the region are lining up to take part in the annual Junior Chef Challenge. Prepa-rations are currently un-derway in all local sec-ondary schools for this much anticipated event which will take place on Thursday January 10 in DkIT.

The competition which is being spon-sored by Tony Kieran Butchers and judged by celebrity TV Chef Jenny Bristow, is in its second year. Last year’s Junior Chef Challenge was won by Ultan Larney and Glenn McCourt who represented St. Mary’s College, Dundalk.

As overall winners they lifted the Tony Ki-eran Junior Chef Per-petual Cup and won

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€1,000 for their school in prize money. In all sixteen Junior Chefs representing eight local schools took part in the competition.

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age young people to cook and eat healthy for their family and friends at home, with an aware-ness of budget con-straints.

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who is training to be a drugs counsellor, was warned by Judge Flann Brennan, to advise his clients not to do what he had done.

Jonathan Reid of 14 Cresent 1, Muir-hevnamor, Dundalk, and Thomas Stokes of 1 Road 2, Muirhevnamor, Dundalk, pleaded guilty to the offence on January 19, 2012.

On that date, Gardai were called the Carlinn Hall estate by a security guard and when the en-tered one of the houses they saw black bags con-taining copper and wir-ing, and found the two defendants upstairs.

Solicitor James MacGuill stated that Mr Stokes, who had been drinking on the night, in-correctly thought there would be no harm in tak-ing items from an aban-doned property in a ghost estate.

The 27-year-old had not been in trouble since 2006 when he returned

to full time education and is currently training to provide guidance as a drugs counsellor, was concerned that a convic-tion would undo the good work he has done.

A sum of €400 in compensation was hand-ed to the court and in light of this, Judge Flann Brennan found the facts proven and dismissed the case.

“When advising peo-ple in relation to matters, you should advise them not to do what you have done”, added Judge Brennan.

Solicitor, Peter Lavery stated that Mr Reid was also drinking on the night and couldn’t ex-plain why he had become involved in the incident.

He had hoped to have his €400 share of com-pensation in court didn’t have it just as yet.

Judge Brennan ad-journed the case until December 20 to allow him address compensa-tion.

From page 1store on Sunday afternoon and that the com-

pany are now investigating. A spokesperson for the company said, “In line with company policy, Penneys does not comment on specific incidents.

“The safety of customers in our stores is always of paramount concern to us and an investigation is now underway regarding this incident.”

Early Christmas present for local boy


The first Junior Chef Challenge was won by Ultan Larney and Glenn McCourt

Students get ready for chef challenge

Stole from ghost estate

“Local Produce Family Celebration Meal” and Jenny Bristow will be awarding the Junior Chefs marks for origi-nality, presentation, use of local seasonal pro-duce and their interpre-tation of the brief.

to full time education and is currently training to provide guidance as a drugs counsellor, was concerned that a convic-tion would undo the good work he has done.

A sum of €400 in compensation was hand-ed to the court and in light of this, Judge Flann Brennan found the facts proven and dismissed the case.

“When advising peo-ple in relation to matters, you should advise them not to do what you have done”, added Judge Brennan.

Solicitor, Peter Lavery stated that Mr Reid was also drinking on the night and couldn’t ex-plain why he had become involved in the incident.

He had hoped to have his €400 share of com-pensation in court didn’t have it just as yet.

Judge Brennan ad-journed the case until December 20 to allow him address compensa-tion.

From page 1store on Sunday afternoon and that the com-

pany are now investigating. A spokesperson for the company said, “In line with company policy, Penneys does not comment on specific incidents.

“The safety of customers in our stores is always of paramount concern to us and an investigation is now underway regarding this incident.”

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THE reform of Louth County Hospital contin-ues this month with the

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St Josephs hope to reach top of the chartsPUPILS from St Josephs NS, Dndalk, are hoping to push for a place at the top of the Christmas charts with their festive offering entitled, ‘Another Christmas Morn’.

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larkin1st & 14th Anninersary

In loving memory of Dan Larkin, who died 24th December, 2011, and Gretta Lar-kin, who died 14th November, 1998, late of Market Street, Dundalk.

—From the Duffy Family.

kevin (victor) MurrayHave you ever lost a SonOr even felt the painOr shed the bitter tearsThat drop like falling rainIf you haven’t had that feelingI hope you never doFor when we lost our SonIt broke our hearts in two.—Always loved and sadly missed from

your broken hearted Mam and Dad.

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Family Noticesin memoriam announcements , anniversaries, Birthday Remembrances, thanksgivings & acknowledgements.

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Christmas Morning runONE of the longest running sporting charity events in the country will continue this year when Dowdallshill GF & AC organise the annual Christmas Morning Run to St Oliver’s Hospital.

The event was first organised in 1959 when athletes and footballers from the Dundalk club ran from their clubrooms, then on the Racecourse Road, to deliver presents to patients at Blessed Oliver’s on the Ardee Rd. Every year since then club members have made the trip that is one of highlights of the year for the hospital as the club also provides music and entertainment.

The club now visits St Oliver’s at the Louth Hosptital and over the years, money collected has been presented to the hospital to purchase much-needed equipment such as PA sound systems, wheelchairs, walking aids, televisions and a full size crib with figures.

Those wishing to support the event can contact any Dowdallshill committee member.

Krótkie podsumowanie roku 2012Największym naszym sukcesem była niewątpliwie parada Św. Patryka, gdzie przy pomocy Zespołu Pieśni i Tańca „Młody Toruń” zdobyliśmy pierwszą nagrodę za prezentację zagraniczną. Debiut i od razu Pierwsze Miejsce. „Młody Toruń” był także ogromnym przedsięwzięciem samym w sobie, co na pewno osłabiło szeregi naszej maleńkiej Organizacji, ale daliśmy radę! Dziękujemy raz jeszcze wszystkim wolentariuszom, naszym cudownym Rodzinom za polską gościnność i otwartość na przyjendnych aż z Torunia.Sporym sukcesem okazała się konferencja w Belfaście, gdzie pojechaliśmy, podobnie jak wiele mniejszościowych stowarzyszeń, na zaproszenie Organizacji Challange of Change z Newry. Byliśmy tam jedną z najmniejszych organizacji, która została wymieniona z nazwy i zauważona przez wszystkie duże korporacje, stowarzyszenia i przedstawicieli Challenge of Change, a nawet przez mniejsze stowarzyszenia, będące gośćmi, takimi jak my. Byliśmy również jedyną z zaproszonych, która wygłosiła swoją prezentację. Ogromnym powodzeniem cieszy się „klub malucha” założony przez ewę, mocno trzymamy kciuki!Obecnie przed nami finał Wielkiej Loterii Świątecznej, już w najbliższą sobotę, 22 grudnia, uroczyste losowanie. Wszystkich biorących udział w loterii jak i ciekawskich lub lubiących koncerty na żywo zapraszamy do North end Bar’u na godzinę 21:00. Do piątku, 21 grudnia 2012, są jeszcze w sprzedaży (sklepy Janosik i Krakowiak) bilety na organizowany przez nas Bal Sylwestrowy. Wszystkie informacje znajdują się na plakatach w punktach sprzedaży oraz na naszej stronie internetowej www.dundalk.pl i pod numerem tel: 0857286736. Agnieszka Boniewicz

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Bay estate School and St Oliver’s, a visit they make every three weeks throughout the school year.Scoil Mhuire school principal Martina rafferty, said the visits were of ‘great therapeutic value to the kids and helped them to understand and ap-preciate older people of the town.Kay O’Keefe who is director of nursing in St Oliv-er’s echoed those sentiments whilst also acknowl-edging the importance of the project saying it had ‘contributed greatly to the quality of life of the residents’ as it was something’ they thoroughly looked forward to throughout the year’.

Matthew McCrave, Conor Bolton and Declan Wiseman in The Spirit Store


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