Twin emotions at end of era

THEY’VE studied side by side for the past 14 years, but twins Kim and Kelly O’Brien have left the schoolyard together for the last time.

While many celebrated after finishing their exams, for the Mount Mercy girls yesterday was a day of mixed emotion.

Kim and Kelly, 18, were pictured by the Irish Examiner in 1995 on their first day at St Catherine’s National School in Cork.