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It was about this time of year, September 1910 that construction work started on the new diocesan college, St Mary’s. Our photograph shows the blessing of the school on August 26 1912, Monsignor Fahey preaching. The first students entered two days later. There were 17 day boys paying £6 per annum and 60 boarders who paid £30 per annum.

Former tánaiste Michael McDowell recently described the European elections as a mad dash where household names strive to become household names. There is more than an element of truth to this; high profile politicians such as Gerry Collins, Jim Higgins, and Brian Hayes went largely off the radar after relocating to Brussels.

We have finally jumped from 2017 to 2018 and even though I am compiling this on January 4, it seems as if half the country has not yet gone back to work. There is a general air of ‘let us wait until the children go back to school’, which will be next Monday. So for the moment there is still the remnants of festivities around.