TOM NESTOR was born in the spring of 1936 in Kilquane, Coolcappa, one of ten in a family and from a farming background. He was educated in Coolcappa National Sc.
An Ennis secondary school is planning to boost its staffing and enhance its facilities to cater for its growing student population. St. Flannan’s College Ennis is on course to become the largest school in Munster as its enrollment figures are due to increase from 1,201 to 1,280 this September. The increase in numbers will result […]
Music from the Wexford Opera Festival Masses of 2019, the St Oliver Plunkett Mass, and the St Michael Mass from 2022, feature on a new CD which will be launched by the Rowe Street Church Choir on Friday, December 8. Taking place in the Loch Garman Band Hall, St Patrick’s Square on High Street at 7 p.m., the launch will feature guest speaker and local historian Monica Crofton.
After Catholic Emancipation where for the first time Catholics won the right to be elected and to sit in the House Of Commons, the English government, led by an enlightened Robert Peel, believed it would be worth extending emancipation to third level education.
SAINT Joseph’s Secondary School Tulla have raised the bar for other Clare schools to achieve hurling success following their fairytale first Harty Cup victory, according to Davy Fitzgerald.