Naomh Pol News Issue 2

INTRODUCTION
Mr Burns
Dia dhaoibh a chairde!
It is a great privilege for me to introduce our second student e-magazine. I want
to thank all of you for how you have performed during this strangest of years and
hope that we will be back to normal soon. I really feel for our Year 14 pupils who
won’t get the chance to wear the school jersey again, or get onto one of our
International projects and of course, you missed the school formal! These are important events in
the final year of a student and I hope it won’t impact too much on you that we have had to cancel
them.
Once again, we have an excellent magazine for you and I want to sincerely thank all of those whose
work and effort have made it happen for our school. Our students continue to excel and make us
proud of them. I listened to Eamon Lynch recently talk about Tiger Woods’s car accident. Eamon is
a renowned golf commentator and journalist in the US now and a past pupil of St Paul’s. And of
course, Aimee and Blaithín getting their Allstars was a real high point for our entire county, but also
for their club and the Mackin family. Our school has produced two Players of the Year now in Aimee
and Steven McDonnell and we are proud, not only of them but of all our students, for their
wonderful achievements. I also want to congratulate Aidan Sands whose short story over lockdown
made it into a published book.
As I write this piece, we are back in school with some of our students and it feels much better. They
say that Education is what remains when we have forgotten everything we learnt in school, but
having a school building to go to, having desks and corridors, a canteen, a study, a library and a
playing field, laboratories and practical workshops are all part of what makes a school special. All of
these things make learning easier and more straightforward and most important of all – the absence
of the school buildings makes us realise just how significant a role it plays in our lives because it is
the social hub which brings us all together as a community, a family, a society. Tá súil again go léir
go mbeidh muid in ann theacht le chéile arís mar chomhphobal arís.
Mrs Hollywood
Naomh Pól Abú!
Welcome to the Second Edition of Naomh Pól News!
I’m delighted to be part of this project and at a time filled with remote
teaching and home schooling- it was a welcome distraction! As we find
ourselves in the midst of another lockdown, St Paul’s High School is still a
hive of activity. It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable and
accommodating our students are. This edition will showcase some of the
things our students have got up to during this time. Our Year 13 students
have done great work in putting this e-magazine together during this period of lockdown. Thanks to
everyone who has contributed to this edition. We also owe a debt of gratitude to our wonderful
study supervisor Georgina Larkin, who brought it all together.
When this edition is released, our Year 12,13 & 14 pupils will have returned to school! It’s wonderful
to see our students roaming the halls again.
I hope you enjoy reading our 2 nd edition!