School Daze: Cork’s Lady Mayoress says thank you to teachers

Cork’s Lady Mayoress, Stephanie Kavanagh, has fond memories of her school days including the friendships and sport and fun — but also what she learned from teachers, especially Sr Vincent.

Cork’s Lady Mayoress, Stephanie Kavanagh. Picture: Denis Minihane

MY MOST vivid memory of secondary school is of one of the nuns pinning a newspaper around my skirt. She deemed the skirt too short.

It may well have been the Examiner. I didn’t read it, but I had to go around with it pinned to me all day. I have to say, there’s no doubt about it, I probably wasn’t the only one, but I remember being embarrassed.