The girl with a hero next door

Growing up in Shannon, Rachael English had heroes on her doorstep. Well, in the class next door at primary school.

She was in Miss Foley’s class but when it was time for PE, the male teacher in the next room took over.

“Ger Loughnane was the teacher next door and when our teacher took his class for singing, he took us for PE. So I’d have known him pretty well.