?The ‘Spirit of Pres Week’ closed out another great year at Presentation College Bray, the annual fixture on the calendar celebrating all that is good with the school that embraces its deep roots within the community.
Some 87 Transition Year and 5th Year students, from Presentation College, Bray, braved the elements to sleep outdoors and raise vital funds for a local homeless charity on Thursday night, November 23.
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Luke O’Neill is a world-renowned professor of biochemistry and immunology at Trinity College Dublin. \ Philip Doyle
When Professor Luke O’Neill was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, he was playing guitar in a band called The Sleeping Arrangements.
They played a lot of pub gigs and at one stage were offered an elusive tour of Europe.
Despite some of his bandmates really wanting to pursue the opportunity, Luke declined. There was another area of his life going very well and he wanted to focus on that.
“Of course some of the guys, they weren’t impressed, ‘We wanted to go and you said no’. I said no because I had just made a big discovery in the lab.