School Daze: The power of education
I’m a Kerry-born woman, from Killarney. I went to primary school at Loreto in Killarney and it was a truly wonderful experience. It was a beautiful school in the countryside with lots of fields and playing fields around it. It was a school run by nuns and it had a gorgeous atmosphere. It was small, I think my first class only had about eleven children in it, so the approach was very personable. I loved my primary school teachers, the fact that the school was so small meant that everyone knew each other and that made me feel really comfortable. Of course, as the youngest of five, it was likely that I would have known most people already! All of my siblings had gone ahead of me, so in a way I had the easiest job.

