Take a trip back in time to your Irish College days

Clare O’Reilly spent five summers of her teenage years at Irish college. This summer she went on a day-trip down memory lane

I DON’T miss much about being a teenager. I do not miss the constant threat of the Leaving Certificate. I don’t miss blushing furiously anytime I saw someone I fancied. I don’t miss everything being so unfair. I also don’t miss my unfortunate fashion choices and dependency on O’Neill tracksuit bottoms and Gap hoodies.

I do, however, miss Irish college. It’s been 10 years since I attended a summer course in Coláiste na Rinne, in Co. Waterford, but, at the same time every year, I feel a pang that I’m not on my way down there. So this June, my sister, Katie, and I took a road-trip down to our old summer haunt.