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s we reach the beginning of a new school year, I think we can look back proudly at the achievements of the last twelve months. Foremost among these has to be the installation of interactive projectors, laptops and wireless internet in all of the classrooms. This is sure to greatly enhance the learning environment within the school for the benefit of all of our students and teachers. Our sports facilities have also been greatly enhanced with the gym and fitness centre getting great use as well as the indoor football and basketball. I would like to make special mention of our former 6th year students who are reading their first year book as past pupils of St. Brendan’s College. At this stage, these students will have already received their Leaving Certificate results and I hope they have all done very well and are now looking forward to the next phase in their lives whether it is starting the third level course of their choice, starting out in work, taking up an apprenticeship or taking time out to travel. Whatever path they take, I wish them on behalf of the whole school community here at St. Brendan’s College, the very best of luck and success now and in the future. To our present pupils, I wish them all a very successful year and hope that 2011/2012 brings them success both in their studies and in all their other pursuits.

I would like to congratulate all of the students who represented St. Brendan’s during the 2010/2011 school year. It is a great honour to represent your school and I believe that all of these students have done so admirably, giving their best at all times. Thanks also to the many members of staff who gave up their own time to train and look after these activities.

Special congratulations to: The under 19 Gaelic football team – South Leinster Champions 2011 The senior Rugby team who reached the semi-finals of the Development Cup The under 15 Soccer team – runners-up in the Wicklow/Wexford Cup Sean Tobin, 3rd year – All Ireland Schools’ Indoor Archery Champion 2011 Hugh Douglas, 5th year, who represented Ireland at under 18 level in soccer Dylan Hayes, 3rd year, who represented Ireland at under 15 level in soccer Josh O’Rourke, 5th year, who represented Ireland at under 18 level in rugby.

All of these students have brought great honour on themselves and the school through their commitment and hard work.

Hopefully, by the time you read this, we will have added to our sports facilities with the construction of the new changing rooms with shower and toilet facilities. I hope also that the Learning Support Centre will be nearing completion and that those of our students with special educational needs will benefit greatly from this facility. Regarding the new school building, we continue to edge closer to the finishing line with the news that full planning permission has been granted by DLRCC. Our architects are now in the process of preparing the tender documents. We will keep parents fully informed of news as we get it.

I would like to thank the parents who work so hard on the Parents Association for all the help they have provided at school functions and other events. It is much appreciated. I would also like to pay tribute to our administrative and ancillary staff – Nieves, Joy, Muriel, Bridie and Roy – for all their work behind the scenes making sure that the school can function properly.

In conclusion, may I especially welcome our new first year students and wish them an enjoyable and rewarding time in St. Brendan’s College. I invite them to join with the existing students and the entire school community as we journey through the next academic year, guided at all times by the principles of our founder, Edmund Rice.

JOHN TAYLOR 2011

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would like to thank all the staff, students and parents who have all contributed to another successful year in Saint Brendan’s. The most significant event this year on the staff was the retirement of Mr. Kieran Ahern after a long and rewarding career at Woodbrook.

I would like to wish him a happy, healthy and fruitful retirement. I know his chat in the staffroom has been missed by all.

I would like to thank Mr. Kevin Mulligan for his two years he spent with us and the time he gave to coaching the senior gaelic football team who were the only team to bring home silverware this year. Welcome back to Ms. O’Brien and Ms. O’Gorman who both returned from maternity leave and thanks to their replacements, Mr. Ryan, Ms. Clarke and Mr. Kelly. Also welcome back to Mr. McDonald after his career break.

I would like to welcome Ms. Angela Dwane and thank her for organising the TY play. I won’t list out all the teachers who give of their time so generously but without their dedication to these extracurricular activities the school would be a far less vibrant place. Well done and thanks to all as I know the boys and their parents really appreciate your efforts.

It only remains for me to wish the class of 2011 the very best for the future and hopefully they have achieved the necessary grades to aid their future career path. Do keep in touch lads and let us know how you are doing!!!

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Stop Cyber Bullying

This year’s front cover is the winning poster in the Senior category of the Cyber Bullying poster competition. It was designed by Shaun Doyle (5th year). The back cover is the winning design in the Junior category, by Eoin Somers (2nd year).

Cyber Bullying is bullying through the internet, or mobile phone, often through social networking sites used by young people.

The competition was held, in conjunction with a talk in the school, to increase awareness of all aspects of cyber bullying including how to identify it and how to prevent it.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Yearbook, through articles, photos and so on. A particular ‘thank you’ to Eoin Tuohy and Hugh McDonnell who helped, at the drop of a hat, despite studying very hard for the Leaving Certificate - thank you lads!!

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Back row (l-r): John Taylor, John Murphy, Nieves Purnell, Michelle O’Neill, Eileen Lynn, Caroline McPhillips, Mairead Hennelly, Kenny Black, Ray Bergin. Middle row: Niamh McCann, Janet O’Brien, Elaine Shiely, Suzanne Hand, Kevin Mulligan, Aaron Ryan, David Meyler, Joyce Burke, Maryline Duffin, Muriel Condren. Front Row: Amy O’Neill, Paul Murphy, Aine O’Gorman, Angela Dwane, Garreth Fitzpatrick, Nicky Kenny, Michael O’Brien.

PARENTS COUNCIL A big ‘thank you’ to the Parents Council whose help has been invaluable throughout the year, not only to help with fundraising for the school, but also during the different graduations. Pictured are a few members of the Parents Council during the TY graduation night.

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CLASS 1A

Back row: Luke Nolan, Bruno Coelho, Daniel Pluck, Callum Brierton, Cian Morley, Gary Geldof-Daly, Padraig Murphy.

Middle row: Jack Conroy, Conor Knox, Aidan Maguire, Jimmy Mason, Dylan Murphy, Owen Duffy, Santiago Rivas-Renado, Roarke Connolly, Aaron O’Connor, Christy Moorehouse, Sergio Sinagoga.

Front row: Aaron Kennedy, Derek Kelly, Jordan O’Brien, Bill Moorehouse, Evan Mooney, Shane Farrell, Kamil Doros.

CLASS 1B

Back row: Lloyd Whelan, Liam Prenter-Morris, Adam O’Brien-Coone, Ryan Smith, Denis Lazarenco, Rhys Gallagher, Cameron Griffin.

Middle-row: Tadhg Nealon, Shahin Afshar, Hasan Hammad, Eoin Barnes, Josh Drew, Brandon Feely, Conor Martin, Jack Doyle, Kasper Gutkowski, Shane O’Hagan, Raymond Quinlan, Sam Carroll.

Front row: Jimmy Moorehouse, Anub Biju, Christopher Yates, Nikita Polakovs, Allexis Alvarico, Conor Louth, Rory Ellard, Mark Kenny.

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CLASS 2A

Back row: Luke Carroll, Karl Murphy, Emmet O’Reilly, Evan Byrne, Jordan Campbell, Matthew Clucas, Luke Zilinskas.

Middle row: Alex Flynn-Fitzgerald, Conor Bracken, Jonathan Gaskin, Ceejay Alvarico, Karl Mason, Thomas Killeen, Vaughn Bongola, Conor May. Front row: Christian Adizon, Sean Batutay, Patrick Horan, Adam Thompson, Adam Phipps, Colm Byrne.

CLASS 2B

Back row: Guiseppe Sinagoga, Morgan Berry, Paul McGrath, Sean Devlin, Ruairi Guest, Joshua Bolger, Kevin Kelly.

Middle row: Aaron Doyle, Jack Carroll, Wesley Maher, Gary Doonan, Barry Carr, Gareth Collins, Gerard Curran.

Front row: Eoin Wall, Dylan Lacey, Andrew Woodcock, Cillian Kelly, Leon O’Callaghan, Eoin Somers.

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CLASS 3A

Back row: Shane Anders, Patrick O’Donnell, Nathan O’Rourke, Niall King, Thomas Kearney, Danny Perry.

Middle row: Michael Byrne, Niall O’Leary, Joseph Carey, Ciaran Barnes, Donal Tuohy, Daniel Tilley, Aidan Mulligan, Sean Tobin, Jason Kinlan, Cian Buckley, James Malone, Anthony Quill.

Front row: Cormac Kelly, Jordan Carr, Lee O’Donnell, Aaron Mulvey, Robert McDonald, Eoghan O’Reilly, Aaron Cahill.

CLASS 3B Back row: Royce Doronila, Marek Starzec, Rory Doyle, Jordan Berry, Padraig Redmond, Jamie Hilliard, Sean Butler, Aaron Kinsella, Osama Hammad.

Front row: Mark Davis, Jamie Gray, Kealan Broughan, Sam De Souza, Shane Gilroy, Ben McGrotty, Lorcan O’Neill.

CLASS 3C Back row: Dylan Donnelly, Rick Walshe, Simon Cullen, Luke McGrath, Ryan Tobin-Tynan, Lee Burke, John Doyle.

Front row: Damien Kelly, Patrick M O’Donnell, Owen Murray, Matthew O’Shea, Marcus Kelly, Conor Cleary.

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Back row: Neil Bleakley, Daryl Brierton, Brandon Murnane, Daniel Michael, Nathan Johnson, Andrew Kinsella, Brandon Downey.

Middle row: Stephen McDonnell, Briain O’Donnell, Daniel Veltom, Emmet Stokes, Brook Kinsella, Craig Whelan, Aaron Mulhall.

Front row: Cian Nally, John Lee, Jack Mannion, Ross Griffin, Marco Marsella, Shane Cox, Dwayne O’Brien.

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CLASS 5A

Back row: Darragh Smith, Gavan Burke, Shane Farrell, David Whelan, David Byrne, Colin Bengochea, Conor McMahon.

Middle row: Gerald Pender, Steven Mitchell, Arturas Karoblis, Adam Jordan, Levin Heimann, Shaun Doyle, Richard Quinlan, Josh O’Rourke, Fergus O’Brien, Sahand Afshar, Craig Duggan, Ryan Cleary, Helmi Hammad.

Front Row: Dylan Lawless, Aaron Vaughan, Carl Reynolds, Owen McNaughton, Nico Marsella, David Byrne, Cody Newell, Keith O’Reilly.

CLASS 5B

Back row: Nathan Cardin, Hugh Douglas, Michael McHugh, Fergal Browne, Tom Clancy, Sean Tobin, Iain Collins.

Middle row: Emmet O’Sullivan, Ross Dalton, Stalone Somers, Kevin O’Leary, Joseph Horan, Shane D. O’Toole, Killian Finn, Shane M. O’Toole, Luke Sheridan, Jack Kennedy, Dean Vanzundert.

Front row: Francis Aristosa, Robert Murray, Ultan Duignan, Christopher Carroll, David O’Sullivan, Rory Plunkett-Boyle, Lukasz Nowicki.

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Back row: Cian McDonnell, Killian O’Carroll, Owen Brett, Hugh McDonnell, Sean Kennedy, Anthony McMahon, Middle row: Andrew Doherty, Simon Grant, John Armstrong, David Cromwell, Callan Whyte, Shane Murphy, Christopher Byrne, Dean Kelly, Daniel Hayes, Conan Sherlock, Adam Vallely-Farrell.

Front row: Garrett King, Cian Byrne, Ruadhan Stokes, Barry Kinsella, Kyle O’Connor, David Hill, Patrick Jarina.

CLASS 6B

Back row: Adam Garton, Niall Meldon, David Bailey, David Veltom, Darragh O’Donnell, Kevin Kinsella.

Middle row: Eoin Tuohy, John Fogarty, Dean O’Neill, Lee Walsh, Cian McGoldrick, Ryan O’Connor, Colin Maddock, Dylan Norgrove, Brandon Mendoza, Luke Blunden.

Front row: Richard Kearney, Robert Martinho, Thomas Smith, Ryan Carroll, Ryan Hannon, Craig Keating, Russell Ward, Junior Madide.

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Name: HUGH McDONNELL Nickname: You/Shug Favourite Pastime: Procrastinating Most embarassing moment: Asking for 100% instead of 99% in a meaningless Religion test.

Favourite Music: Everything really, mostly rock Best known for: Being a general annoyance Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Working for the Aperture Science Enrichment Centre.

Greatest Achievement: Surviving the French student exchange Name: DEAN O’NEILL Nickname: Spud, Deano, Kit Favourite Pastime: Messing about, football, horse riding Most embarassing moment: Achill adventure centre …. Enough said!

Favourite Music: Johnny Cash, Nsync, The Corrs, ABBA, Bee Gees Best known for: My big hiking school bag Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In Chad firing a rifle Greatest Achievement: Getting only 2 notes my whole time in school Name: SHANE MURPHY Nickname: Murphy, Murph, Smurf Favourite Pastime: Xbox, hanging out with friends, extreme ironing Most embarassing moment: Every time I open my mouth in Irish and French Favourite Music: Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, Oasis…

Best known for: Witty comments & bubbly personality Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Settled down with a family and job in anywhere but Ireland ... most likely Pakistan or America Greatest Achievement: Driving Licence Name: ADAM VALLELY FARRELL Nickname: None Favourite Pastime: Music, sports & TV Most embarassing moment: I don’t get embarrassed Favourite Music: A bit of everything Best known for: Being a face in the crowd

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Being a physio for a Premier league club Greatest Achievement: Young Journalist of the Year

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Name: PATRICK JARINA Nickname: Paddy Favourite Pastime: Hanging around with my friends.

Favourite Music: Any good songs from the past 10 years.

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: America Greatest Achievement: Finishing my Leaving Cert.

Name: ADAM GARTON Nickname: Garto Favourite Pastime: Football & mountain biking Most embarassing moment: Embarrassment is a sign of weakness but it did take me 3 attempts to pass the theory test.

Favourite Music: Mozart, Bethoven, Bach … all the rave classics Best known for: Doug and Sanchez Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Rollin in the cash!

Greatest Achievement: Finally passing the theory test after the 3rd go.

Name: JOHN ARMSTRONG Favourite Pastime: Having the LOL’s Most embarassing moment: My whopper mullet Favourite Music: Pogues!!

Best known for: Going red Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In Newtonmountkennedy with the sheep Greatest Achievement: 6 years of St Brendan’s

Name: SEAN KENNEDY Nickname: Kennedy Favourite Pastime: Rugby Most embarassing moment: Attempting to dye my hair blond in 2nd year, it ended up ginger for 2 weeks Favourite Music: Eminem, The Coronas Best known for: Dying my hair blond

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Australia or America Greatest Achievement: Being on top of the World Trade centre six months before 9/11

Name: DAVID VELTOM Nickname: Shoulders/Shaggy Favourite Pastime: Playing football at big break Most embarassing moment: Being bigger than Dan Hayes Favourite Music: All kinds really Best known for: Stocky shoulders

Name: JOHN FOGARTY Nickname: Fogo, P.F, Stillo fiend Favourite Pastime: Football Most embarassing moment: Being squeaky all through 4th year Favourite Music: A bit of whatever Best known for: Unreasonable outbursts of anger Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Out of anger management Greatest Achievement: Moving out of Bray

Name: EOGHAN KENNIFICK Nickname: Kenno, Twinkle toes Favourite Pastime: Playing multiplayer board games by myself so I win Most embarassing moment: Getting nutmegged by David Bailey Favourite Music: The XX, that one song from the band who are real good Best known for: mmm I’m not really well known Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Running a farm in the Ile de France – a very productive area.

Greatest Achievement: Not being influenced by Ruadhan Stokes Name: DAVID BAILEY Nickname: Bailey Favourite Pastime: Watching football and annoying Darragh Most embarassing moment: Knocking the radiator off the wall in the prefabs and it started to flood Favourite Music: Every type, no particular favourite bands Best known for: The incident in Beauvais airport in 4th year, Hall monitor Where do you hope to be in ten years time: As far away from Darragh as possible Greatest Achievement: Perfecting the nutmeg on Eoghan Kennefick, it happened on several occasions Name: SEAN O’REILLY Nickname: “left blank for artistic reasons” Favourite Pastime: Drumming & Guitar Most embarassing moment: Strolling in late pretending its 8.50 Favourite Music: Metal of the heavy variety Best known for: being one of the bullies

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: The Aperture Science Computer Aided Enrichment Centre Greatest Achievement: Came in on time once…..

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Doing well in life Greatest Achievement: Getting 19 points off Mr. OhAnnaidh in table tennis

Name: DEAN KELLY Nickname: Deano Favourite Pastime: Football Most embarassing moment: Too many to mention Favourite Music: A bit of everything Best known for: Messing Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In a good job making good money Greatest Achievement: Reaching the Leinster School Final Name: LUKE BLUNDEN Nickname: Joo Favourite Pastime: Being a member of the bullies Most embarassing moment: Paying €10 for a piece of string in France Favourite Music: Grindcore, Deathcore, Indie, Dubstep Best known for: shaving the sides of my head Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Far away from Junior…because I’m black!

Greatest Achievement: Getting free pizza in Irish Name: RUADHAN STOKES Nickname: Fernando Stokes, Stokess Favourite Pastime: Transforming into Edwin Van der Sar for football at break time Most embarassing moment: Loosing my shoe in a swamp in Delphi Favourite Music: Anything but metal …. and Lady GaGa Best known for: Not possessing a belt, being Torres, hating mornings Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Somewhere you’d never expect me to end up Greatest Achievement: Being a terrible influence on Eoghan Kennefick

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Name: RYAN O’CONNOR Nickname: Roc Favourite Pastime: Paris Most embarassing moment: I don’t get embarrassed. I’m mad.

Favourite Music: Glee Best known for: Being real sound Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In the Barcelona team.

Greatest Achievement: Being able to drive to school.

Name: CIAN BYRNE Nickname: Byrns, Byrnzy Favourite Pastime: Playing ball, collecting stamps Most embarassing moment: Nobody makes a show of me!

Favourite Music: Mobb Deep, Big L, Cher, Willie Nelson, Wham Best known for: Slagging Ger “The Pear” Pender and having the best locks.

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: With my darling wife.

Greatest Achievement: Scoring a goal from the half way line against Pres. in 1st year.

Name: EOIN TUOHY Nickname: Jim Favourite Pastime: Never letting a slide tackle opportunity pass me by Most embarassing moment: Going the wrong way about pronouncing ‘organism’ in Biology Favourite Music: To choose one is difficult …. Red Hot Chili Peppers Best known for: Give me a second to think … ah yes, being colour illiterate Where do you hope to be in ten years time: You thought Ireland was small… 8°49’51.81”S 140°02’52.04”W Greatest Achievement: Up to now not breaking my nose, I have heard it hurts

Name: CONAN SHERLOCK Nickname: Shermeister, C-dawg, Coco, Bombshell, The Cocunator, The Shermenator.

Favourite Pastime: Playing games on the computer Most embarassing moment: Eating a Pomegranate & not coming home Favourite Music: Rock and metal, together they make organic music Best known for: Being an all-round loveable, huggable teddy bear Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Hopefully nowhere near here or at least an acceptable distance away (at the bus stop!)

Greatest Achievement: Scoring that one goal against Ruadhan that one time during that one break

Name: CALLAN WHYTE Favourite Pastime: Dominating in the breaktime football series Most embarassing moment: My French exchange experience … enough said (Eloise) Favourite Music: Most types minus hard rock, but a bit of Natasha Bedingfield does the trick Best known for: Deliberately aiming high over the football net because scoring is far too easy for me.

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Far, far away Greatest Achievement: Following in the footsteps of David Bailey in our Irish class

Name: NIALL MELDON Nickname: Meldo, Miles, Nigel, Milky Favourite Pastime: Gaelic Most embarassing moment: In Paris after Space Mountain. Ha ha!

Favourite Music: Hardhouse, Korn, Iron Maiden Best known for: Tolken Bomb Where do you hope to be in ten years time: A successful business man.

Greatest Achievement: Finishing year.

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Name: GYTIS PREISEGALAVICIUS Nickname: Big Man Favourite Pastime: Time in Lithuania during holidays, breaking my leg and being on crutches, deadly!

Most embarassing moment: Shooting at my own net in a basketball match Favourite Music: Progressive house, Michael Woods, Deadman5, The Sneekers Best known for: Being huge, supporting Hearts, making up the best excuses.

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Having millions in my bank account after winning Euromillions … which I actually will Greatest Achievement: Going to the basketball final with St Brendan’s, unfortunately ended up loosing but still we are in the school’s history now!

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Name: THOMAS SMITH Nickname: Tomo, Boots Favourite Pastime: Getting up at 6am before school to study, LOL JK Im not Darragh Most embarassing moment: A teacher got me mixed up with Cian Byrne Favourite Music: Creedence Clearwater, Ace of Base, “All that she wants” and Christy Moore “Don’t forget your shovel” Best known for: Holding Tea parties in my house on Friday nights Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Get me out of here and I’ll be sorted Greatest Achievement: Finishing these questions

Name: BRENDAN MENDOZA Nickname: None Favourite Pastime: Listening to music, surfing the internet Most embarassing moment: Being lost in first year Favourite Music: Everything from pop to rock Best known for: Being the youngest student in 6th year Where do you hope to be in ten years time: On the moon Greatest Achievement: Receiving ‘Best in Irish’ award in 5th year

Name: ANDREW DOHERTY Nickname: Andy Favourite Pastime: Shearing my beloved Dolly Most embarassing moment: Asking the airhostess to open the window on the plane home from Barcelona in 2nd year Favourite Music: Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black Best known for: Bringing in the nicest chicken wings that St Brendan’s has ever seen and tasted Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Won’t be here 2012 is coming!!!

Greatest Achievement: Not having a special needs assistant

Name: KYLE O’CONNOR

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Nickname: Russ Favourite Pastime: Being insignificant

Favourite Pastime: Music, heading out

Most embarassing moment: Managing to get my shoe on the gym roof

Favourite Music: Eminem, Tiesto Best known for: Ask someone else

Favourite Music: Punk rock

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Making money Greatest Achievement: Passing my driving test, finishing school

Name: LEE WALSH Nickname: Walsh, Lee Walsh Favourite Pastime: Playing football, going to the physio Most embarassing moment: Collapsing in Paris and geting pushed around in a wheelchair Favourite Music: Anything good really Best known for: The wooden knee and “me big bag a lunch” I carry around everything Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Living in Australia Greatest Achievement: Doing higher level Geography Name: DYLAN NORGROVE Nickname: Jeff Hardy Favourite Pastime: Guitar Most embarassing moment: Head butting Mr Bellew by mistake during the JC Favourite Music: Death Metal, Instrumental Best known for: Never being in, having long hair Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Playing guitar for a living.

Best known for: Breaking myself over and over Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Passing from one army to another Greatest Achievement: Joining the army and working on a shooting range.

Name: GARY KING Nickname: Kinger, Gazzer, Garfield Favourite Pastime: Golf, watching Liverpool hammer Utd & Luton playing the best football I’ve ever seen Most embarassing moment: I never get embarrassed Favourite Music: The Script Best known for: My secret desire to go to Harvard …..or Oxford ….cheers Bar! Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Working for the Irish Independent/RTE as a sports reporter Greatest Achievement: Getting Jeff Kenna as the answer for one of Mr Mylers many football questions Name: ROB MARTINHO Nickname: Rob, Marty, Duck, Seal Favourite Pastime: Gaelic, Soccer matches, Paris trip Most embarassing moment: Getting caught wrestling with Richard Kearney by Mr Ahern Favourite Music: Al Green, Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Kid Rock Best known for: Always up for a laugh, running into a door with a nappy on my head Where do you hope to be in ten years time: America Greatest Achievement: Winning the slow bike race 4 years in a row

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Name: VIDMANTAS LAUKAITIS Nickname: Viddy Favourite Pastime: Going out, pool, basketball Most embarassing moment: None yet Favourite Music: All good music, Lithuanian, Russian Best known for: Supporting B.C. Lietubos Rytas and my friends support Zalgiris Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Working in some big company Greatest Achievement: Finishing St. Brendan’s

Name: DAVID CROMWELL Nickname: Hedgy Favourite Pastime: Drawing pictures in Irish in my copy Most embarassing moment: Getting 4% in Physics mocks...Revised to 10%!

Favourite Music: Oasis, Linkin Park, The Script Best known for: Apparently “not doing Fridays” Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Running a successful business Greatest Achievement: Finishing school

Name: STUART McHALE Nickname: Stu-PID, Hairball, Hey you!

Favourite Pastime: Gaming, music, trimming my beard Most embarassing moment: Oh where to start!

Favourite Music: Rock, metal, Machine Supremacy Best known for: Known? I wasn’t here for most of the years!

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Working in an art studio or the IT sector Greatest Achievement: Creating Christianity!

Name: KILLIAN O’CARROLL Nickname: None Favourite Pastime: Football, Hunting Most embarassing moment: Falling off my chair in biology Favourite Music: Rap and R ‘n’ B Best known for: being hot-headed on the pitch Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Making money Greatest Achievement: Getting this far in school

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Name: OWEN BRETT Nickname: John Brett, Red Lad, Brettser Favourite Pastime: Collecting old stamps and supporting Celtic Most embarassing moment: I don’t get embarrassed. I embarrass people ask Darragh …. He knows all about it (Bad form!)

Favourite Music: Mary Byrne, Susan Boyle, Paul Potts Best known for: Being a sick minded chap!

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: The world is ending in 2012 anyway so ya!

Greatest Achievement: Convincing Darragh he had won an iPod

Name: TONY McMAHON Nickname: Moses Favourite Pastime: Hanging out with friends Most embarassing moment: All of 1st year!

Favourite Music: Every type of music but mostly metal Best known for: My beard Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In the Amazon Rainforest hunting the Agouti menace Greatest Achievement: Maintaining a beard through all of 6th year

Name: ARNOLDAS ALCHIMOVAS Nickname: Arnie, Alch Favourite Pastime: Basketball, going out clubbing, hitting the gym Most embarassing moment: Losing a game of basketball to the one who knows nothing about it (Mr Fitzpatrick) JK JK ….!

Favourite Music: Progressive House, Electro House, all the random stuff depending on the mood Best known for: Basketball and size I suppose … ha ha. Also being the youngest in the class Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Hoping to build up my own way while moving forward, will see where it leads Greatest Achievement: Finally being able to slam dunk!

Name: DARRAGH O’DONNELL Nickname: Daz, Crusty, Crystal, Dazzalmebaby, Quagmire, 1 Con daZ Favourite Pastime: Speaking French, football, gaelic, tennis, piano, guitar, bodhran Most embarassing moment: The time Owen convinced me that I’d won an iPod, which turned out to be a joke and the entire school were in on it!

Favourite Music: Bit of everything except rock Best known for: My so sweet catch phrase; Tights=certain courcase, “My droppers full” Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Lord Sugars apprentice, as far away from Colin Greatest Achievement: Winning an all-Ireland talent medal playing the piano, Winning top goal scorer and player of the year 2 years running

Name: RICHARD KEARNEY Nickname: Kearney, Rich, Ricardo Favourite Pastime: I like table tennis, long walks down the beach and football Most embarassing moment: Getting caught wrestling with Rob by Mr Ahern Favourite Music: Bon Jovi, Boy George, Westlife, Coldplay, The Killers Best known for: Being smart and being Kearney Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Being a good Barber or gym instructor Greatest Achievement: Passing the JC and finishing school…passing the Leaving Cert (Hopefully!)

Name: TONY MARSELLA Nickname: Chipper boy, Marshmallow Favourite Pastime: Long runs, going down to Bray to mess, playing with my dog Most embarassing moment: I’m too cool so....

Favourite Music: bon Jovie (Legend), heavy metal Best known for: Being me....Tony!

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: A successful entrepreneur selling Toy Story and Barbie dolls Greatest Achievement: Finishing school

Name: RYAN HANNON

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Nickname: Hanno, Buuud!

Nickname: Bourney Neelo!!

Favourite Pastime: Cruising!

Favourite Pastime: Changing me cars Most embarassing moment: Being myself Favourite Music: Rap, R ‘n’ B Best known for: Leaving and going back to Glencormac about 5 times Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Trying to fix the golf Greatest Achievement: Being banned from driving to school but still driving!

Most embarassing moment: Getting sick at 4am in the morning in Achill Favourite Music: R ‘n’ B, Race, Rap Best known for: Lying!

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Have a good job with loads of money Greatest Achievement: Passing driving test

Name: COLIN MADDOCK Nickname: Col Favourite Pastime: Working and going out on weekends Most embarassing moment: Nobody embarrasses me …..ever!

Favourite Music: Hip Hop, rock Best known for: Being from Shankill

Name: BARRY KINSELLA Nickname: Kins, Slick, Bartholomu Favourite Pastime: Getting haircuts Most embarassing moment: Not getting out of our group this year in football Favourite Music: Luke Kelly Best known for: Eating cucumbers Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In a hot country making cash and not paying taxGreatest Achievement: Passing my driving test first time

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: As far away from Bray as possible and making twice as much as Darragh Greatest Achievement: Finishing the Leaving Cert Name: CIAN McDONNELL Nickname: None Favourite Pastime: Guitar, Xbox, going to the Harbour bar Most embarassing moment: Can’t remember, id say there were a few though!

Favourite Music: All types of heavy metal Best known for: Being ginger, having my lip piereced

Name: KEVIN KINSELLA Nickname: Kev Favourite Pastime: Playing the decks, going to the gym, bare belly boxing!

Most embarassing moment: Don’t know Favourite Music: Hard House Old School, Techno Best known for: Falling asleep in class Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Settled down with 12 kids Greatest Achievement: Being nominated for the face of Bray.

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In the Amazon rainforest hunting the Agouti menace Greatest Achievement: Can’t think of any ‘great’ achievement

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Name: RYAN CARROLL Nickname: butters, Carroller Favourite Pastime: Annoying Lee Walsh Most embarassing moment: Saying lemon fresh as an answer in German Favourite Music: Rap, Krs one, Wu-tang Best known for: Messing, looking like Butters Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Working in a different country Greatest Achievement: Passing Irish

Name: DAN HAYES Nickname: Hazer, Lateral Raise Hayes, Dano Hayes fella, Thug life Favourite Pastime: Mr Mylers football discussions in English and pumping weights Most embarassing moment: Wearing a Rangers jersey (scarlet) + being too strong Favourite Music: Sisqo, Slipknot, Mc Finchy, Fleetwood Mac, TLC, Depeche Mode, Ace of Base Best known for: Being a top bloke and having the best body in the gym and being gawjus like!

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In Newry with Fran Mooney and married to my beor.

Greatest Achievement: Having big lats & being sound

Name: JUNIOR MADIDE Nickname: Jue Jue Favourite Pastime: Playing sport, listening to music and thinking about my next excuse.

Most embarassing moment: Getting rejected for fake tan Favourite Music: I listen to anything Best known for: My awesome tan Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Lego land and far away from Luke!

Greatest Achievement: I almost caught a squirrel out in the school car park Name: SIMON GRANT Nickname: Si, Slymon, Fefy Favourite Pastime: Gym, football, ‘messing’ Most embarassing moment: Getting dropped from QPR Favourite Music: 80s tunes Best known for: The birdie, smell of bubble off this jacket Where do you hope to be in ten years time: In Newry with the boys Greatest Achievement: Doing the Leaving Cert., lead in the musical

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Name: DAVID HILL Nickname: Gilly, Dave Favourite Pastime: Sleeping, counting ceiling tiles, wrestling wild bears, bird watching and going to Mass Most embarassing moment: Where do I start Favourite Music: Church hymns, Amish beats

Best known for: Walking around half asleep Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Working with a 3rd level degree and if all else fails breeding donkeys Greatest Achievement: Representing and shooting for Ireland twice

Name: DIMITRIJ KOLESNIKOV Nickname: Dimon Favourite Pastime: Hanging around with my friends Most embarassing moment: Nothing Favourite Music: Drum and bass, rap, hip-hop & electro music Best known for: PC and cars Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Australia Greatest Achievement: Driving Licence

Name: REECE BURNS Nickname: Reeco Burns Favourite Pastime: Darts Favourite Music: Arctic Monkeys Best known for: Coming and going at random parts of the day

Where do you hope to be in ten years time: A fire fighter in the Dublin fire brigade Greatest Achievement: Firefighter of the Year with the Auxiliary Fire Service Name: CHRIS BYRNE Nickname: Chris, Rice, Chisty Favourite Pastime: Gaelic, Extreme Dishwashing Most embarassing moment: Coming in with a cast on my nose Favourite Music: Kings of Leon, Oasis, The Dubliners, The Pogues Best known for: My inability to whisper Where do you hope to be in ten years time: Owning my pubs in Australia, New York & Dubai Greatest Achievement: Surviving Brendan’s this long.

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SENIOR DEBATING The senior debating team of Iain Collins, Owen McNaughton, Gary Delany and Chris Carroll took on a team from St. Gerard's in a debate on the motion "Ireland has no Future". The team were proposing the motion and unfortunately were narrowly beaten on the day.

STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL FOR 2010/2011 WERE: David Bailey, Junior Madide, Chris Byrne, Sean O’Reilly, Patrick Geaney, Joshua O’Rourke, Fergal Browne, James Malone, Eoghan O’Reilly, Arron Cahill, Karl Murphy and Evan Byrne.

Pictured left to right are the officers of the Student Council: Patrick Geaney, David Bailey, James Malone and Joshua O’Rourke.

PARENTS ASSOCIATION QUIZ A great night was had by all those who attended the Parents’ Association annual fun table quiz which was held in the school hall on Thursday April 7th. Thanks to all those who supported the event by putting in a team, donating a spot/raffle prize or helping on the night. There was a full house on the night and congratulations to the winners and to all the students who entered teams.

LEFT: Winning Team (The Teachers): Angela Dwane, Garreth Fitzpatrick, Aaron Ryan and Kenny Black.

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Eoin Tuohy

Brandon Mendoza

Religion

Junior Madide Hugh McDonnell

Richard Kearney Tony McMahon

Biology

Arnoldas Alchimovas Darragh O’Donnell

Junior Madide Hugh McDonnell

French

Darragh O’Donnell Dean O’Neill

English

John Fogarty Lee Walsh Robert Martinho

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Adam Vallely Farrell Conan Sherlock Robert Martinho

Adam Garton Darragh O’Donnell Chris Byrne

Construction Studies John Fogarty

Tony Marsella

Accounting

Conan Sherlock

Adam Garton

Gary King

Hugh McDonnell

German

Sean O’Reilly

Adam Vallely-Farrell Economics Owen Brett LCVP Adam Garton History Andrew Doherty Art Sean Kennedy Irish Tony McMahon

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Barry Kinsella

Daniel Hayes

Physics

Conan Sherlock

Rhudhan Stokes

Business

Darragh O’Donnell

Sean Kennedy

Geography

Eoin Kennefick Sean Kennedy

Lee Walsh Chris Byrne

DCG

Luke Blunden

David Veltom

STUDENT OF THE YEAR: Eoin Tuohy

Eoin Tuohy

Kyle O’Connor

Gary King

Arnoldas Alchimovas

David Hill

Stuart McHale

Adam Vallely-Farrell John Armstrong Darragh O’Donnell

Adam Garton David Hill Gary King

SPECIAL MERIT: Hugh McDonnell 2011

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Brian Kane (inset, and above as goalkeeper) is a student in Mater Dei and worked in the school for a few weeks teaching History and Religion. He proved very popular with the students not only for his great teaching but also as he is one of the goalkeepers for Bray Wanderers Football Club.

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Name: JIMMY MOOREHOUSE Nickname: SpongeBob Things I will most be remembered for: Being good at art Hobbies: Football and boxing Most likely career: Don’t no Person I admire most: Messi

Person I admire most: James Connolly

Name: DANIEL PLUCK Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Rarely talking in classes Hobbies: Archery, Woodwork Most likely career: Engineer

Name: KAMIL DOROZ Nickname: Kamilian Things I will most be remembered for: Being myself Hobbies: Football, P.E., and playing on my X-Box Most likely career: Footballer

Name: JIMMY MASON Nickname: None Hobbies: Soccer, Football, Hurling, Darts, Snooker Most likely career: Solicitor or Paver

Person I admire most: Wayne Rooney

Name: GARY GELDOF DALY Nickname: Gaz Hobbies: Art, fixing my bicycle Most likely career: Artist, Plumber Person I admire most: My dad

Person I admire most: I admire my uncle most as he can almost use any piece of technology

Name: ROARKE CONNOLLY Nickname: Roarko Things I will most be remembered for: Messing Hobbies: Boxing, Business, Woodwork Most likely career: Boxing Person I admire most: My mam

Name: AARON KENNEDY Nickname: JFK, Jedward Things I will most be remembered for: For splattering Owen Duffy and Santiago with a full carton of milk Hobbies: Archery, Golf, Fishing Most likely career: Herpetologist (The study of reptiles and amphibians) Person I admire most: Brady Barr (Dangerous Encounters)

Name: SANTIAGO RIVAS RENECLO Nickname: Santi/Big Nose Things I will most be remembered for: Having a big nose, falling on floor during prizegiving while getting my CSPE award!

Hobbies: Cycling, Reading, Basketball Most likely career: Electronic Engineer Person I admire most: My brother Anton who is both weird and funny!

Name: SHANE O’HAGAN Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Always last out of class Hobbies: Football, X-Box and hanging out with my mates Most likely career: Haven’t a clue!

Person I admire most: Dirk Kuyt

Name: SHAHIM AFSHAR Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Never wearing my jumper!

Hobbies: Football, BMX’ing Most likely career: Footballer

Name: JACK DOYLE Nickname: None Hobbies: Rugby, Woodwork, TG Most likely career: Rugby player Person I admire most: Jamies Heaslip

Name: DILLON WATTERS Nickname: D.W. Things I will most be remembered for: My left in a blue cast Hobbies: Singing, Acting Most likely career: Actor

Person I admire most: Luke Nolan! Jack Conroy!

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Name: NIKITA POLOK0VS Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Playing tennis, X-Box Hobbies: Tennis, X-Box Most likely career: Tennis player, Game designer

Person I admire most: George Bush Jnr., Lionel Messi

Person I admire most: Rafael Nadal because he is an amazing tennis player

Name: HASAN HAMMAD Nickname: Hasan Hobbies: Football Most likely career: teacher Person I admire most: Mr. Hobbs

Name: SAM CARROLL Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Messing Hobbies: Boxing Most likely career: Professional Boxer Person I admire most: Roy Jones Jnr.

Name: CHRISTOPHER YATES Nickname: Chris Things I will most be remembered for: Being a Ninja!

Hobbies: Playing football Most likely career: Gardai Person I admire most: Chuck Norris

Name: ADAM O’BRIEN COONE Nickname: Don’t have one!

Things I will most be remembered for: Being the longest at my locker Hobbies: Playing football and X-Box with my mates Most likely career: Hopefully something like architetur or maybe even a footballer!

Person I admire most: Cesc Fabregas

Name: RHYS GALLAGHER Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Messing, being funny Hobbies: Football Most likely career: Airforce Pilot, Train Driver

Name: MARK KENNY Nickname: Don’t have one Hobbies: Hip Hop, Breakdance, X-Box Most likely career: World-famous Breakdancer Person I admire most: Dylan Murphy

Name: CONOR LOUTH Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Smiling a lot Hobbies: Football, video games, going outside, cooking Most likely career: Cooking Person I admire most: John Terry

Name: LLOYD WHELAN Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Being Awesome!

Hobbies: Playing X-Box, Winning, Finding Double Rainbows Most likely career: A rock, preferably a big one Person I admire most: Charlie Sheen

Name: LIAM PRENTER MORRIS Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Saying hi to Mr Bergin every single day Hobbies: Guitar Most likely career: Game designer Person I admire most: Shia LaBeouf

Name: DENIS LAZARENCO Nickname: Deny Things I will most be remembered for: Being tall Hobbies: Football, football and football!

Most likely career: Footballer

Name: JOSH DREW Nickname: None Hobbies: Woodwork and Motocross Most likely career: Carpenter or a Vet Person I admire most: Rhys Gallagher

Person I admire most: My dad, Rhys Gallagher, Lionel Messi and John Terry

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Name: RYAN SMITH Nickname: Smitty Things I will most be remembered for: Archery Hobbies: Music, Darts, Archery Most likely career: Carpenter

Person I admire most: Nelson Mandella

Name: KASPER GUTKOWSK Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Messing around Hobbies: Basketball, Football Most likely career: Basketball player Person I admire most: Michael Jordan, Lionel Messi

Name: BRANDON FEELY Nickname: Brando Things I will most be remembered for: Scored two cracking goals in P.E. Hobbies: Football, GAA

Name: RORY ELLARD Nickname: None Hobbies: Chess, Footbal and Gaelic Most likely career: Gardai Person I admire most: Robert Snodgrass

Most likely career: Professional footballer Person I admire most: Messi

Name: EOIN BARNES Nickname: Barnesy, Barnale Boy Things I will most be remembered for: Having F**k on the side of my glasses Hobbies: Football, X-Box 360 Most likely career: Chef Person I admire most: Dani Alves

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Person I admire most: None

Name: SERGIO SINAGOGA Nickname: Clergo Things I will most be remembered for: Making people laugh Hobbies: Rugby, Table Tennis, X-Box Most likely career: Rugby player Person I admire most: Aiden Maguire

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Name: CAMERON GRIFFIN Nickname: Cam Things I will most be remembered for: Getting yellow ards in Mr. Sully’s class Hobbies: Football Most likely career: Binman Person I admire most: Kenny Daglish

Name: TADHG NEALON Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: None Hobbies: None Most likely career: None

Name: JACK CONROY Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Being small and having long hair Hobbies: Football, Gaelic, X-Box Most likely career: Footballer Person I admire most: Luke Nolan, Shahim Afshar

Name: RAYMOND QUINLAN Nickname: Ray or Stingray Things I will most be remembered for: being brought into 5th year Irish by my brothers friends Hobbies: Football, drawing, golf and playing X-Box Most likely career: Footballer Person I admire most: I admire my granny Kitty because at 83 years she cooks meals-onwheels for people every Tues, while keeping all her children and grandchildren happy

Name: AARON O’CONNOR Nickname: O’Connor Things I will most be remembered for: Being funny Hobbies: Swimming Most likely career: Businessman Person I admire most: My uncle

Name: DARRAGH MORLEY Nickname: Dor Things I will most be remembered for: Making my friends laugh Hobbies: Tennis, Swimming Most likely career: Tennis player Person I admire most: Rafael Nadal

Name: BRUNO COELHO Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Jokes Hobbies: Football, basketball, funny junking, chillaxing and playing poker Most likely career: Behaviour Analyst Person I admire most: Superman

Name: JORDAN O’BRIEN Nickname: Jordo Things I will most be remembered for: Sport Hobbies: Sport Most likely career: Footballer

Name: CALUM BRIERTON Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Being tall!

Hobbies: Rowing, running, computer, sleeping, reading, drawing, listening to music Most likely career: Architect Person I admire most: Jonathan Creek

Most likely career: Architect, band member Person I admire most: Spiderman

Name: EVAN MOONEY Nickname: Ev Things I will most be remembered for: Sport Hobbies: Football, Chess, Games (X-Box) Most likely career: Chess player

Name: CIAN MORLEY Nickname: Morlo Things I will most be remembered for: Sports Hobbies: Football and X-Box 360 Most likely career: Footballer Person I admire most: Tupac and Lionel Messi

Name: SHANE FARRELL Nickname: I don’t have one Things I will most be remembered for: Doing Russian voice in English Hobbies: Playing X-Box 360 Most likely career: Mechanic

Name: DYLAN MURPHY Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Irish and Maths Class Hobbies: Guitar Most likely career: Musician

Person I admire most: Didier Drogba

Person I admire most: Wayne Rooney

Name: ALLEXIS ALVARICO Nickname: N/A Things I will most be remembered for: I don’t remember stuff in my life.

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Hobbies: Playing games on PC or PS3 Most likely career: Doctor Person I admire most: Boxing Manny Pacman ?????

Name: CONOR KNOX Nickname: Meatloaf, Hamster Dude, Rock Star Things I will most be remembered for: Jokes Hobbies: Hurling, music, trampoline

Person I admire most: Eric Clapton, Donnie Van Zant

Name: OWEN DUFFY Nickname: Duffy Things I will most be remembered for: Winning 9 awards, getting semidrenched with milk.

Hobbies: Hurling Most likely career: Engineer, Architect Person I admire most: Henry Shefflin, DJ Carey, Joe Dean, Damien Fitzhenry

Name: ANUB P BIJU Nickname: Jacob Things I will most be remembered for: Being the smallest in the whole school Hobbies: Cycling and watching TV Most likely career: Automobile Engineering Person I admire most: Leonardo de Vinci

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Name: AIDAN MAGUIRE Nickname: Dimples Things I will most be remembered for: My dimples Hobbies: Football, golf, going to FAI matches Most likely career: Graphic Designer or I.T. Person I admire most: José Mourinho and The Ninja

Name: NATHAN CLUCAS Nickname: Clukazade Things I will most be remembered for: Nothing Hobbies: Football Most likely career: Something to do with football Person I admire most: Luis Alberto Suárez

Name: PADRAIG MURPHY Nickname: Podge Things I will most be remembered for: Don’t know Hobbies: Football, GAA Most likely career: Footbaler Person I admire most: Roy Keane

Name: LUKE NOLAN Nickname: None Things I will most be remembered for: Football Hobbies: Football, X-Box Person I admire most: Messi

Name: DEREK KELLY

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With an abundance of visual actions and repetitions it allowed the students of all abilities to understand.

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The team progressed to the Dublin region semi-finals against Lucan Community College in Oblate Hall, Inchicore. The game was excellent with a constant to and fro for the lead throughout the game. We eventually lost 74-68 but recognised that we had built on previous years and were now developing into a very good basketball playing school.

The Junior Basketball team did not play competively this year but still played a number of friendly games with the game against Salesian College, Celbridge being the stand-out game in an unbeaten campaign.

SENIOR SQUAD: Arnouldas Alchimodas, Gytis Preistavicus, Levin Heimann, Paul Dagbay, Francis Aristosa, Lucas Nowicki, Arthuras Karoublas and Darragh Smith.

JUNIOR SQUAD: Lukas Zilinskas, Blajeiz Kosnick, Rob McDonald, Vaughn Bongala, Sean Batutay, Alex Flynn, Ceejay Alvarico and Guiseppe Sinagoga.

Mr. Fitzpatrick would like to thank all players for the hard work and enthusiasm which all members of each squad displayed this season. Long may our development continue!!!

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Gytis Preisegalavicius (6th year) is presented with the Ciaran Fisher Trophy by Mr. John Taylor

Above: The WINNING TEAM with Ms. Hennelly, Cody Newell (5th yr), Gytis Preisegalavicius, Rhys Gorman (5th yr), Joseph Carey (3rd yr) and Carl Reynolds (5th yr) Right: The RUNNERS-UP: Padraig Murphy (2nd yr), Luke Sheridan (5th yr), Shane Farrell (5th yr), Conor Bracken (2nd yr), Guiseppe Sinagoga (2nd yr), Anthony Quill (3rd yr) and Sean Tobin (5th yr).

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By SAM DE SOUSA Under 15’s Player of the Year

r Blacks under 15’s soccer team reached the Wicklow/Wexford final in May. The campaign started with a 4-all draw away to Killian Community School, where Ross Griffin scored 3 of his 8 goals for Saint Brendan’s College in this match.

Our next game saw us win 4-3 against Dublin Oak despite being down by one man in the first 5 minutes.

The next match was an exciting 5-4 win for us against Saint David’s in Greystones.

We won the semi-final against Gorey on penalties.

Unfortunately due to injuries we lost the final against De La Salle, despite a good performance and an excellent goal from Luke McGrath.

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It was to be another 5 months however before the next round was played. This was due to a tremendous run in the South Leinster Championship that St. Brendan’s initiated with a comprehensive win over a battling Baltinglass in the first round. The team was really beginning to take shape with an extremely dependable spine of young men manning the central positions: Shane Farrell was incredible all year; his Premier-League standard saves kept Brendan’s in the competition on numerous occasions.

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whether it was last-ditch diving blocks or warrior-like surges out of defence, he was continuously lifting those around him. Gavin Burke, at centre back, was a rock upon which many an opposition attack perished and his setting up of play was integral to the success enjoyed this year. Niall Meldon cut a captain’s figure at centre-field and his fielding and ability to kick off either foot was unrivalled throughout the campaign.

Dean O’Neill assumed the playmaker’s role at centre-forward and his giveand-go routine, followed by him arching the ball over the bar after receiving the return pass, left many a defender scratching his head.

Up front, the dynamic duo of Simon Grant and Sean Plunkett dovetailed to great effect with Simon using his strength to win mountains of possession before Sean would apply the coup-de-grace by arrowing the ball over the bar in his own swaggering, effortless style.

Next up was a much vaunted Avondale side and after a game that could have gone either way, the greater resolve of the Brendan’s boys saw them over the line.

A semi-final tie against Ferrybank CC loomed and after much delay due to the Winter freeze, St. Brendan’s were very much down to business in disposing of the opposition comfortably.

And so to the big day with Brendan’s vying with Bunclody VEC for the right to be declared South Leinster champions. Buoyed by a contingent of very vocal supporters, the Brendan’s lads didn’t disappoint. Augmenting the aforementioned players, Cian Byrne and Nathan Cardin were tenacious and tigerish in the corner back positions. Chris Byrne was a bundle of energy working up and down the wing. David Sullivan was similarly driven throughout the year and once more in the final, where his ball-carrying and fooballing brain were vital to the cause. Martin Sustavicius was the perfect foil to Meldon at midfield, expertly linking defence and attack. Fergus O’Brien also proved himself a useful addition to the team at this point in the year, his power bringing vital strength to the middle third. Darragh O’Donnell’s speed and ball-carrying tormented opposition defences throughout the

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campaign and Cian McGoldrick worked tirelessly and got some vital goals, without which Brendan’s would never have reached this stage. Rob Martinho played the roving corner forward role to perfection and his intelligent use of possession was a feature of his play.

On the day, St. Brendan’s played all the best football and were deserving winners. Captain Niall Meldon had the honour of lifting the Cup. There was little time for celebration as within a fortnight we were back in action, this time in the Leinster semi-final where we faced the North Leinster champions, O’Fiadh College from Dundalk. Played on the resplendent St. Brigid’s state-of-the-art 3G pitch, St. Brendan’s unfortunately came up short on the day.

In late March attention returned to more local matters and the much delayed Wicklow “A” quarter-final. The opponents were Wicklow De La Salle.

Shorn of a couple of our regulars, St. Brendan’s battled valiantly against the odds but were narrowly defeated. And so the year was ended.

Other players who contributed heavily to the success of the year were Conor McMahon, David Byrne, Owen Brett, Chris Carroll, Josh O’Rourke, Barry Kinsella, Cillian O’Carroll, Rob Murray and Michael McHugh. Thanks to all the players who togged out and hopefully the majority of the players will continue to play the sport long after they’ve left the school. The players deserved their success for their skill and determination and no doubt a first South Leinster Championship in many years was a fine way to crown the sporting calendar.

BY PAUL McGRATH started kickboxing when I was four and I knew it was going to be a life changing experience. For the past four years I have been representing Ireland in countries such as Portugal, Italy and Croatia.

This year I went to Portugal with my dad and I reached the semi-finals.

Unfortunately I broke my thumb halfway through the first round and the match was stopped.

However I was very happy with my winnings: a world bronze medal. I am now back in training to go to Los Angeles next year. I am currently training four nights a week which is seven hours altogether.

Sometimes I help out with the younger classes to show them the basics.

I am training in a small club owned by Grand Master Massan Ghorbari.

Travelling to compete can be very expensive so I have been sponsored by a local restaurant for the last four years.

So far I have won 16 All-Ireland titles, four of which I won in the last year and 2nd and 3rd European and World medals.

I was told when I trained for the first time that dedication and hard work pays off and for me it has.

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INDOOR SCHOOLS’ COMPETITION Congratulations to the school archery team who performed particularly well at the recent Indoor Schools’ Archery competition. Sean Tobin won the “B” grade with a personal best score of 505/600 while Jonathan Doyle was best in the “C” grade with a score of 380/600. Sean Butler came second in the “C” grade with a score of 302/600 and Daniel Pluck progressed to the “D” grade.

Well done also to the team mentor, Alan Hill, who is deputising for Bernie Barry who is recovering from illness. We wish Bernie a speedy and full recovery.

ALL-IRELAND SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS Congratulations to Sean Tobin, 3rd Year who has become National Indoor (Boy’s) Archery Champion for 2011 with a score of 523 points. Sean shoots for the St. Brendan’s Archery Club and this is a huge achievement for him.

Ryan Smith was second in the Beginners section with a score of 392 points. Ryan also won the Junior Hotshot award.

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The second round gave St Brendan’s a home draw again and they were vastly superior to St Aidan’s Brookdale eventually running out 40-0 winners.

Rhys Gorman, Gavan Burke, Nathan Johnston, and Daniel Michael were particularly dominant. This put St Brendan’s in a first rugby quarter-final at senior level in over fifteen years.

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heading into the quarter-final. This time Hartstown Community School provided the opposition but a strong St Brendan’s pack allied to good handling from the backs saw St Brendan’s ease to a 15-0 half-time lead. As the lineout was functioning well, thanks in particular to good work from Ian Collins and Shane Farrell, Hartstown found it difficult to make progress and eventually St Brendan’s ran out convincing winners on a 38-0 scoreline.

St Brendan’s faced Wexford CBS in Wexford in the semi-final. This was a hard-fought game with both sides taking serious hits. In the first half St Brendan’s had the advantage of a strong wind but failed to take advantage of this despite going close on a number of occasions. Injuries in the game to key players like Rhys Gorman and Nathan Johnston had a telling effect and St Brendan’s saw their Shield run come to a disappointing end.

However hopes are high for 2012 as the majority of this squad are underage for next years competition. We’d like to wish our 6th Years who played on this years team – Gytis Presigalavacius, Arnoldos Archimovas, Junior Madide, Kevin Kinsella and Sean Kennedy the best of luck and also congratulations to Josh and Luke for playing with the Irish Under-18s.

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This year I had the honour to be chosen to represent the Ireland Under 18’s rugby team. We played three matches, of which we won two and drew one.

The first match was against Germany in Berlin. We beat them 54-0 as they are only a developing rugby country, but it was great to get my first taste of international rugby.

The next match was against England at home in Ashbourne. In the first half we were totally in control of the game but the English fought back in the second half to draw with us 23-23. After the match we were presented with our first international caps.

The final match was against France in Quimper. A large crowd of 4,000 spectators welcomed us onto the pitch which was exciting, as many of us had never played in front of a crowd that big before. We won the match 29-14 which was a first for an Irish Youths U-18’s side away in France and ended the season unbeaten.

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e went to Paris for four days and three nights where we stayed in a hotel in Stade de France Chaville, near Versailles, a nice town only a short drive from Paris city centre.

We left on Monday 2nd May from the school at 3.20am!

On the first day we had a guided bus tour of Paris and on Tuesday we went to Versailles to see the castle.

In the afternoon we visited the Stade de France, which included a Our bus driver tour of the dressing rooms.

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On Tuesday night we took a boat ride along the river Seine.

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In the afternoon we went to the very top of the Eiffel Tower, this was followed by a visit to the Louvre where we saw the Mona Lisa. That night we went to a bowling alley to play bowling and pool.

Thursday was the final day of our trip. We spent the whole day in Eurodisney where we went on Space Mountain, and some went on it as many times as ten times!! We also went on rides such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Indiana Jones. We then left for our flight home.

Overall the trip was enjoyed by everyone.

We also a good laugh with our bus driver, we nicknamed him ‘Norman’ - Shane misses him very much…

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Aviva was amazing. The people were all very nice to me and the inside was so modern and up-to-date with all the gadgets. I liked the way Aviva employed people not just from Ireland.

Aviva is a multicultural company, there were Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese employees.

When I entered the building, security gave me an ID card and this allowed me in and out of Aviva without any hassle. My ID card contained my name and my host name: Alan Bergan.

The lift took me to floor five. I introduced myself to Alan, he seemed nice.

Alan gave me a lot of work. I was required to input rates on the computer. It was very tiring but rewarding in the end. Floor five was the re-insurance department. In the second week I went up to floor six - the investment department. I preferred this department because it was quieter and smaller. I was given the task of setting out, on the calendar, the meetings for each day.

I flew through the job. Overall I enjoyed the work experience in Aviva, and I would advise any students to go to Aviva on work experience.

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Brandon Downey or my work experience I had chosen two work placements: Everest Cycles and Shoreline Leisure in Bray.

In my week in Everest Cycles I had real fun as I was working with all types of bicycles from mountain bikes down to Box’s.

In my time there I had been shown how to do a full service of a bike as well as how to assemble a bike from right out of the box. I would recommend this placement if you have a spark for bikes.

In my second week in Shoreline Leisure I found out what was the requirements to become a fitness trainer and a physiotherapist. Most days I started work as early as 6.30am.

While I was working in the Leisure Centre I took part in different fitness classes: Spinning, Body Core, and Circuits.

From my observation of the classes with determination anybody can get fit.

I would recommend this placement for people with an ambition to be fit.

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TY STUDENT OF THE YEAR Daniel Michael SPIRIT OF TY: Andrew Kinsella BEST ATTENDANCE: David Veltom MUSICAL PERSON OF THE YEAR: Emmet Stokes SPORT - BEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR U-15 Ross Griffin ART: Dave Veltom, Brandon Downey MTW: Jamie Cromwell, Daniel Michael RELIGION: Stephen McDonnell, Aaron Mulhall FRENCH: Conor McCrossan, Daniel Michael GERMAN: Craig Whelan, Cian Nally ENGLISH: Stephen McDonnell, Jack Mannion IRISH: Craig Whelan, Jamie Cromwell PE: Stephen McDonnell, Emmet Stokes SCIENCE/HERITAGE TRIPS: Andrew Kinsella, Craig Whelan GEOGRAPHY/ENVIRONMENT: Aaron Mulhall, Nathan Johnson BUSINESS: Conor McCrossan, Brandon Murnane ECDL: Daryl Brierton, Brandon Murnane MATHS: Ross Griffin, Andrew Kinsella

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The “Build a Bank” project is run in conjunction with AIB and involves a group of students setting up a “mini-bank” in the school. Students can then open accounts, lodge and withdraw money through their account in the school.

The bank operates at break time on two days a week and is monitored by staff from the AIB in Bray.

The objective of the project is to encourage students to open bank accounts and to help them understand how banks and bank accounts operate.

History Teachers Annual Schools Quiz Pictured are Owen McNaughton, Emmet O’Reilly, Aaron Vaughan and Shaun Doyle who represented St. Brendans College in the History Teachers Association Annual Schools Quiz.

The quiz was held in St. Conleth’s in Ballsbridge and the team finished with a very credible 48 points out of a possible 60.

Presentation to Irish Cancer Society Transition Year students Andrew Kinsella and Brandon Downey made a donation to the Irish Cancer Society, out of the profits from their Young Entrepreneur project.

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Craig Whelan and Brandon Murnane receiving a prize for their mini-company ‘We Make Stuff’.

Daniel Veltom, Shane Cox, Nathan Johnson and Cian Nally receiving a prize for their mini-company ‘Calendar Boys’.

Neil Bleakley receiving a prize for his mini-company ‘Pet Stockings’.

Conor McCrossan and Marco Marsella selling their product ‘Memoirs’ in a local nursing home.

Conor McCrossan and Marco Marsella pictured with the printer of their booklet ‘Memoirs’.

Conor McCrossan and Marco Marsella selling their product ‘Memoirs’ in a local nursing home.

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HERITAGE TRIPS Below are some of the Heritage Trips the Transition Year students participated in throughout the school year.

Shankill Woods This trip was at the request of the class who were shocked to learn in their Environmental Studies class that there is a possibility that all of the woodland in public ownership may be sold. This would include the 3 lovely woods, Rathmichael, Ballycorus and Barnaslingan, that the class walked through on their hike from the Scalp to Shankill before Christmas.

Natural History Museum At the trip to the Dead Zoo (Natural History Museum) all the group were stunned by the polar bear, shot dead in the Canadian Arctic in 1851 by a native of Dundalk!

The Great Sugarloaf We were blessed with a glorious day for our climb of the Great Sugarloaf. The climb was tackled by the longest route from Kilmac.

Everyone made it to the top is a super time of just under 3 hours showing the value of all the earlier walks. Even the final scramble posed no problems!

Glasnevin Cemetery The poor weather tested the stamina of our TY lads for the tour of Glasnevin Cemetery. But they were so enthralled that their guide extended the tour by almost a full hour despite the rain. Their guide was full of praise for the enthusiasm and attentiveness of the group.

Howth Cliff Walk The photo shows the group at the start of the long cliff walk around Howth head. The happy smiling faces were much less so 3 hours later after circling the cliffs of Howth and then crossing the high hills of the peninsula to return to Howth village. Some of the boys were even unable to partake of any refreshments, such was their exhaustion!

Dun Laoghaire Pier Treasure Hunt The Dun Laoghaire pier treasure hunt ended in a welter of excitement, drama and controversy. The afternoon was fiercely competitive but the finish was even more so.

Team Reds came back to have their answers checked in an unbelievable time of 37 minutes. Their answers were excellent with

only one incorrect answer. Other teams returned in fast times with the same scores.

However soon controversy raged. Several teams lodged formal objections to Team Subway who, it was alleged, had told several other teams that the number on the Crimean War cannon was 80! Team FDL, Team Excelsior and Team Gringos2007 also made this allegation. A torrent of claim and counter-claim was washing over the pier!

Tempers were frayed!

However peace was restored when, with the wisdom of Solomon, the senior judge, Mr Murphy, adjudged that while Team Subway were disqualified for providing incorrect answers to other teams, all other teams were also eliminated from the contest for the offence of seeking outside assistance.

However such was the keeness of the completion that Mr Murphy decided that the entire group should spend the prize fund on warming hot chocolates in Dun Laoghaire!

Croke Park The long trip to Croke Park was exhausting! The walk from O'Connell Street, climbing all those steps and finally a long session with the interactive games! The hurling speed game was won with a top speed of 128kpm. The boys were hardly able to make their way home.

Shankill Beach After an exhausting morning at a Céilí in the school we opted for a local trip to the beaches in Shankill and Killiney to see the aftermath of the last Ice Age. The photo shows our budding geologists standing beside the debris of the Great Irish Sea Glacier that covered the area and gave the smooth shapes to Killiney Hill, Bray Head and Carrickgollagan (the harder quartz of the Sugarloaf was more resistant!). In fact it can be said that the group are standing under 2000 meters of solid ice! (even if the ice melted 16000 years ago!). We even collected some of the famous Ailsa Craig granite pebbles; carried to Shankill from Scotland by the same ice! A lot of debris from Scotland has found landfall in Shankill!

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always on for the first Friday back to school after Christmas. While the lads marvelled at the exhibits, the crowds this year were bigger than ever (we say this every year!) and this made any group photos impossible especially with the crowds (of mostly female) new friends gathered around our group!

Dublin Mountain Way The last outing before Christmas was a 3-hour hike on the new Dublin Mountains Way from the Scalp to Shankill village. Through old and new woodland, over the bald height of Carrickgollagan (with a diversion to the old lead mines chimney, see the photo!) and down to Shankill on the beautiful new path in Rathmichael Wood; it was a grand afternoon; despite the biting wind and the fearful views off to the higher and snowcovered Wicklow hills.

Collin's Barracks The class had another trip to the Museum at Collins Barracks in November to have a look at another of the exhibitions. The group's second visit of the year proved a slight disappointment when the questions in the museum's worksheet that we were using as a treasure hunt proved a little too challenging!

Bray Head The group had a very enjoyable walk or run to the top of Bray Head. It was a first ascent for some of the class, even for some residents of Bray!

Kilmainham Gaol On this trip the class were shocked to learn of the conditions that prisoners were kept in down through the years and were moved by their guide's account of the executions of the leaders of the 1916 Rising.

Trinity College Dublin The science treasure hunt in Trinity was a great success and great fun, won by Team FDL (N Johnson, D Brierton and D Michael) who relied on old fashioned detective work and brain power. The strategies adopted by other teams were not as productive; one team were shocked by how little Trinity students knew about their own college and another learned an expensive lesson about the limited power and speed of Google!

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6th Year Sports Awards Under 19 Player of the Year Senior Player of the Year Senior Gaelic Player of the Year Senior Basketball Player of the Year

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STUDENT OF THE WEEK This is a new award introduced into the school this year. Candidates for this award were nominated and decided by staff members. The nomination could have been for any reason including sporting achievements, achievements outside school, voluntary work or for any other reason thought appropriate by staff. The student of the week received a certificate, a small token prize and their picture was displayed on the ‘Student of the Week’ noticeboard for the duration of that week. The winners were: November 15 November 22 December 6 December 13 January 31 February 14 February 28 March 7 March 14 March 28 April 4 April 11 May 2 May 9 May 16

Luke Nolan Arnoldas Alchimovas James Malone Vaughn Bongala Sean Tobin; Daniel Tilley John Doyle Adam Phipps Colm Byrne Jimmy Mason Hugh Douglas Dylan Hayes Guiseppe Sinagoga Gareth Collins Josh O’Rourke Sean Tobin Chris Carroll Nathan Cardin Daniel Michael Dillon Watters

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Sean Tobin; Daniel Tilley, John Doyle

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Nathan Cardin and Chris Carroll

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Guiseppe Sinagoga and Gareth Collins

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aint Brendan’s pupils have been sponsoring three boys, to enable them to go to school in Nepal, for the past two years.

With one non-uniform day a year the St. Brendan’s boys enable three young Nepalese boys to get an education instead of working, like their fathers, as unskilled workers in the fields.

The school, River Dale School, is situated in Pokhara in the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal.

The money raised by the non-uniform day is sent directly to the school to support these three pupils. I have direct contact with the principal who is trustworthy and responsible.

This is an excellent way for the boys of St. Brendan’s College to participate in a charity helping young boys to get an education.

Well done to all of them for supporting this cause.

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By NATHAN CARDIN with extracts from Tom Tannion’s Blog on

www.havenpartnership.com hris Carroll and myself went to Haiti last April to build houses and work with the local community.

We departed Ireland for Haiti on Saturday 2nd April, arriving there early on Sunday morning, after travelling for approximately 24 hours, taking in a one-hour stopover in Newfoundland, and a two-hour roadside pit stop due to a failing engine fan belt. We eventually arrived in Gonaives, in the North West of the country at 2.00am local time.

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Below left: Gonaives, the city where our beneficiaries come from. It has been devastated by hurricanes and mudslides in 2004 and 2008.

Above left and right: The work which is carried out from 6am to 6pm!

playground was making very good progress. We were enduring blisters, heat, dust and long days - but it was all worth it. By the end of the fourth full day on site all the groups had settled into a steady routine and things were coming together with increasing ease. The uncertainty of the first day had been replaced by a confidence and familiarity that had moved the various projects on at pace.

On our second day, Chris and I went on a beneficiary tour to Gonaives. Here we met some of the families who would be given houses on the new site. The shanty town we visited was a heart-wrenching place to be, although even with this feeling it was amazing to see all of these people who have After a light breakfast and a short briefing from Haven staff, we hit the building site.

Conditions on site were basic. We were living in tented accommodation, with limited access to electricity, sleeping on canvas camp beds and sharing with up to five other people.

We were up everyday at 5am for breakfast and worked in temperatures often exceeding 40ºC. Chris and I were involved in the masonry team working on the new community centre in the mornings until half two when we joined the social team in last years camps to work with the children. We ran a summer camp which involved volunteers and the local community interacting through sport, music and arts and crafts.

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suffered tremendously still smiling, singing and dancing.

This musical feeling was brought on by a volunteer named Bobby Lee who used his guitar to bring hope to these people. This was a place that would bring any man or woman to tears. Imagine a town built on a rubbish tip with very dubious water flowing through the middle of it.

Imagine trudging through mud whilst lots of children walk alongside you laughing and smiling, oblivious to their surroundings. Imagine then seeing a ‘room’ no bigger than something that would hold a king size bed and two chairs.

Imagine five people living, eating, sleeping, washing and existing in that room. Imagine a roof on that room that is not waterproof and walls that are not wind or rain proof.

Imagine a foul smell. You are imagining the place from which our work will rescue some families. We came back in silence.

Bobby Lee whose music made the trip so much better

George Hook, TV presenter, who was there with our team in a school in Gonaives.

The prospect of a cold drink, a shower and the evening meal was a great way to unwind before the evening entertainment began. The food was of a very high quality and credit really has to go to the catering team who did such marvellous work.

In the evenings there was ‘Open Mic’ nights which showcased the talent that was swirling around in our group of 370.

Throughout the week, Chris and I became very attached to the group of over 100 children we were working with and it was a very hard thing to leave. We did end on a good note, a group of landscapers built an 11-a-side football pitch and we played a match against the local boys. This was an amazing experience. In all Chris and I really enjoyed the trip, it was a life-changing experience and I would recommend this kind of work to anyone. I for one will not be taking what I have for granted anymore.

GRAFFITI WORKSHOP

A Graffiti workshop was organised, in the school, by Ms McCann. It had no affiliations with the current illegal graffiti art scene!

One of the aims is to encourage students to explore ideas and gain confidence by acquiring new skills, while respecting the environment.

The workshop only lasted for a day but was enjoyed by all who participated.

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Charity Cake Sale

Before Christmas first year students organised a cake sale for charity, helped by their SPHE teacher Ms. McCann. The numerous and scrumptious cakes helped them to raise money for St. Vincent de Paul. Well done lads!!!

First Year Quiz

Congratulations to the LCVP class on organising a great table quiz for the first year students in the school. The winning team consisted of Owen Duffy, Aaron O’Connor, Allexis Alvarico and Anub Biju.

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Ms Lynn spoiled the Second years by organising a French breakfast (petit-dejeuner) where she served hot chocolate with marshmallows, croissants and baguettes with butter and jam.

This is not an easy job; it requires a lot of organising and dedication!! There is no better woman than Ms Lynn for the task; she is a real ‘cordon bleu’ who has treated the staff, many times, to her scrumptious desserts. Merci Ms Lynn!!

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MERCHANT OF VENICE

On April 5th the Honours English group from third year went to see ‘The Merchant of Venice’, which we were studying, in the Mermaid Arts Theatre in Bray.

It was a modern day setting using the original, unchanged, Shakespearian text .You could describe it as ‘Shakespeare meets the modern day’.

Well I think ‘Shakespeare meets the 80s’ would be more fitting! Judging by the clothing and the amount of leather jackets!

You are probably thinking ‘would the old English text and modern clothing not look out of place?’ And it was, at the very beginning anyway; but after the first scene it began to work well.

This was only a minor feature of the play but the main points and themes of the play were not lost. The main reason we went to see the live stage version, after having

By JAMES MALONE already watched the film version, was to help us with the stagecraft question which can come up on the Junior Cert.

Apart from one or two minor mistakes from the members of cast, scenery and wooden props didn’t change so the same wooden blocks and the bridge where the characters stood didn’t change. That meant the same bridge was in Venice, the Rialto, The Courthouse, Belmont and Portia’s Palace.

There also was impromptu humour which arose from the Shakespearian text and comments and ‘teenage humour’ which came from members of the audience (especially during the change in scenes when the lights went out!). It was a very enjoyable experience and really helped with our study of the play.

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Sixth Year Ecology Trip On a crisp November morning our biology class, along with Ms O’Neill and Mr Scully, headed to Knocksink Wood in Enniskerry, for our mandatory ecology field trip.

When we first arrived we went directly to the visitors centre where we would await our guides.

We were given a clipboard and a question sheet to be filled in during the course of the trip.

When our guides arrived we split into two groups. Each group then

By GARY KING proceeded to walk for a short time in the woods.

When we chose a spot to study the habitat we marked it off in a square with four pieces of ten metre rope. We identified any leaves and insects in the area. We also looked for any evidence of any animals. We recorded any findings and filled out our worksheet.

At half twelve we finished and cleaned up the equipment and returned it to the visitor centre.

Everyone enjoyed it and felt it was extremely worthwhile and a big help for their Leaving Cert ecology exam.

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6th Year Students SAY GOODBYE...

MR AHEARN RETIRES Mr Kieran Ahern, a Maths teacher in the school for over thirty years, retired before Christmas, leaving behind many students disappointed and tearful.

His legendary sense of humour and his boundless knowledge entertained many a break and lunchtime; he will be missed by all.

Happy retirement Kieran!

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