St Patricks College, Bearnaghaeha.

St Patrick’s College Bearnaghaeha (which means windy gap in Irish, hopefully not a pun towards the students!) is the school where I spent the first 5 years of my secondary school education. It’s a strange mixture of 1950s buildings with a recently constructed technology and design department. This school is one of the strictest school I have ever been to, but this was not a bad thing by far. I was a lazy kid and without these teachers really pushing their classes and keeping a tight watch I probably wouldn’t have gotten a single qualification. The place was really turned around into the top class institution it is now by its Principle P. J O’Grady who wants students to take pride in their college so much so that he can often be seen confiscating baseball caps from students wearing them on the walk home so as to not take away from the uniforms appearance. A great college of which I have a lot of fond memories.