School Daze with Mary Kennedy: Savour the moments

Mary Kennedy fell in love with the Irish language thanks to her favourite teacher, Mrs Redmond

I went to school in Clondalkin, where I grew up and I went to the Presentation Convent for both primary and secondary school. Then, because I am a glutton for punishment, I went back there when I qualified as a teacher! I taught Irish and French at Coláiste Bríde, the secondary school I had attended.

It was eye-opening going back as an adult. When I was in secondary school I thought 'my God - my teachers are ancient!' When I went back as a teacher, I realised that many of them were about four or five years older than me and no more!