Spa NS Wins In Hugh O’Flaherty Memorial Weekend Competition

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Twins Conor and Marc Brick from Spa National School, Tralee winners of the MSGR Hugh O'Flaherty Art & Literary Primary School Collective award pictured at Killarney Library with from left, Eamonn Browne, Librarian, teacher Geraldine Behan, Jerry O'Grady, Chairman, HOF Committee, Canon Pat Horgan and Senator Paul Coghlan. Photo: Don MacMonagle

Twins Conor and Marc Brick from Spa National School, Tralee winners of the Mons. Hugh O’Flaherty Art & Literary Primary School Collective award pictured at Killarney Library with from left, Eamonn Browne, Librarian, Geraldine Behan, Jerry O’Grady, Chairman, HOF Committee, Canon Pat Horgan and Senator Paul Coghlan. Photo: Don MacMonagle

SPA National School pupils were in Killarney for the Hugh O’Flaherty Memorial Weekend where they collected a prize on behalf of the school for their efforts in an art and literary competition.

The weekend is all about commemorating the Killarney native, Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty, who was became a hero when he helped over 6,500 Jews, US and British soldiers escape the clutches of the Nazis while he was based in the Vatican during WW2.

The cleric also has a Tralee connection as he spent a short time during his childhood at a house in Strand Street, where The Huddle Bar now stands. Across the road is a beautiful space with mural commemorating the great man.

The organisers of the weekend ran a competition for primary and secondary schools and the Art and Literary Primary School Collective Award was won by Spa NS, with twins Conor and Marc Brick from Spa NS collecting the prize on the school’s behalf at Killarney library on Friday.

In the adjudicator’s report it noted: “The pupils of Spa National School displayed a great variety of writing skills – some are consummate storytellers and you want to hear them as well as read their essays. It’s as if they’re delivering to an audience.

Most focus on the importance of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty as a Hero. Their personalities focused on their interpretation of such a tribute. In this, individualism was most apparent.

We wish to congratulate the teacher of their class on the quality and style of the writing contained in the collective entries of the pupils in this school.”

The weekend programme includes the humanitarian award ceremony – where the Hugh O’ Flaherty International Humanitarian Award will be presented to Fr Sean Myers – film and documentary screenings a photo and memorabilia exhibition, heritage tours.

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