‘I wouldn’t be where I am without St Killian’s’

He struggled with reading and writing and recalls how at the age of 12, he had to sit at the back of the classroom because his teacher, with a class of 35 children, just didn’t have the time to give him the extra help he needed.

But thanks to a move to St Killian’s School, a pioneer in the provision of specialist education programmes for children with a range of learning difficulties, Michael Hegarty said he learned not just to read and write, but also learned a range of life skills which have helped him throughout his almost 30-year career in construction.