Archive for June 27th, 2021

Siamsa Tíre Looking For Children To Audition For Training Academy

Siamsa Tíre Looking For Children To Audition For Training Academy

June 27, 2021 at 11:52 am Comments are Disabled

DO you have a child aged between 7 and 12?  Are they interested in playing Irish music, singing traditional songs, or dancing reels, jigs, and hornpipes? Well, if so, your child might like to audition for Siamsa Tíre’s National Folk Training Academy.  This is a three-year formal educational training programme […]

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Presentation Primary School teacher Ann Dillon with her Second Class pupils on the day of her retirement from teaching on Friday. Photo by Dermot Crean

Ann Says Goodbye To Teaching At Pres Primary After 25 Years

June 27, 2021 at 11:52 am 1 comment

AND so it finishes where it started. Ann Dillon said her goodbyes to pupils and staff at Presentation Primary on Friday after 25 years teaching at the school. Ann (née Sheehy) was no stranger when she arrived to teach there in 1996, as she grew up only a stone’s throw […]

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