Back to school . . . on the treble

SECONDARY school principal Noel Malone took special pride in the first year class of 2008 which yesterday enrolled at Coláiste Chiaráin in Croom.

Among the 150 new pupils were his children, triplets Noel, Roisín and Gráinne. The 12-year-olds hit the front page of the Irish Examiner on January 10, 1996, as the country’s first triplets of the year.

Dad Noel said: “My wife Siobhán drove them to school today, as we felt it better to keep them independent of dad. We had a lovely welcoming morning for all our new parents and I was there as principal and a parent with children in the school for the first time.”