Thank you for visiting our website. Our names are Laurence and Brendan. We are in 6th class, and we are the current editors.

This is a five-sided wrench. It is very old. It is 200 years old. It is supposed to be a tool for ploughs. A blacksmith forged it. It is made of iron. I found it in my house. It was in one of the presses. There are spanners on one end and a hammer on the other end. By Eamonn, 2nd class.

My dog was called Mutley. He loved snow bubbles, trips to our caravan and being loved. A few years ago when he was 12 years old he had a stroke and died when I was at school when I lived in England . I can’t remember him as a puppy but when I can he was cute and playful. Before school my mum, brother and me walked him up the road before we went to school and my mum went to work. All of my old friends loved him. My mum and dad got him in February 1989. He used to sleep upstairs in his own bed in mum and dad’s bedroom. When he was a puppy my mum used to put a blanket over him and tuck him in his bed.

Jessica

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Heysel Stadium Disaster

At 3.06pm on April 15th each year, thousands of Liverpool fans all over the world take a moment or two out from their everyday lives to stop and remember the 96 supporters who died at the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989.
It's the saddest day of the year for many Liverpool supporters. However, it's not the only day when many fans stop for a moment to think of a large group of football supporters who went to a match only never to return.
If April 15th is the saddest day in the club's history, May 29th is surely the lowest. On May 29 1985, 39 football fans died when a wall collapsed at the Heysel stadium in Belgium. What should have been one of the greatest nights in the club's history turned into a nightmare.
Instead of leaving Brussels having seen our team lift a fifth European Cup, Liverpool supporters travelled back to England having witnessed the deaths of 38 Italians and one Belgian.
Liverpool had objected to the choice of ground to stage the final well before the friendly banter outside the stadium began to turn nasty inside. Aside from the fact that the stadium appeared to be crumbling, Liverpool's main concern was that there was to be a neutral section of the ground set aside for football fans from Belgium. The club argued that only Liverpool and Juventus should be allocated tickets. Setting aside a neutral area would only lead to both sets of fans being able to buy tickets off Belgium touts thus creating a dangerous mixed area. As history has since proved, this neutral area was soon filled with Italian supporters.
As tempers became frayed inside the ground about an hour before kick off, both sets of fans baited each other through a segregating fence made from chicken wire. After a sustained period of missiles being thrown by both sets of supporters, some Liverpool fans charged at their Italian counterparts and, as chaos took over, Juventus fans fled only for a wall blocking their escape to collapse on top of them. Thirty-nine football supporters died where they fell.

researched by Richard

My grand parents

Her mother’s name is Ellen and her dad was Maurice. They are both dead now my dads parents lived in kereen. My grandparents walked to school each day. They cycled to town. They kept hens and ducks and horses. They walked to mass every Sunday across the fields.

By Kevin

Dying a Shirt

Mrs. Collins and her class have been busy doing some experiments. Here is one about dying a shirt.

1.    Place cloth in indicator liquid and stir

2.    Remove cloth and dry with paper

3.    Place cloth on paper and squirt with lemon juice

4.    Squirt with soap or use soap bar

5.    Leave for a few minutes

6.    Rinse in cold water

7.    Dry

My Grandad

My Grandad was going to his friends house. He brought his son and wife with him. They were having a cup of tea and my uncle knocked over a practical joker and he said I will throw your new boots so he took them off him and pretended to throw them in and by an accident he threw them in. He had to buy him a new pair and never used that joke again.

By Alissa

Saint Brigid

Once upon a time there was a little girl called Brigid. She had a very cruel father. When she was 18 her father said you have to marry any boy I pick. But Brigid made up her mind. She wanted to be a Christian. And a few years later a few more girls joined her. For a few more years she had her monastery it in her father’s farm. She wanted some land. She said I will get some land from the King of Leinster. Her father knew what the King of Leinster was like. Then she put her cloak on the ground and said “just that much”. The cloak spread out to cover a big big bit of land.

By Sarah

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The Pony & Trap

When my grandad was young he was walking past his neighbour's house. He saw a pony and trap stopped outside the house. He knew it belonged to another neighbour who was visiting. He took the pony from the trap and placed it the other way round so that when the lady came to go home the pony was facing the wrong way round. She never knew what had happened.

by Lauren

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My Pony Jilly I have a new pony on loan from my uncle. She is called Jilly. She is grey. She is seven years old. I feed her every day and night. We go hunting, showjumping and lots of cool stuff. She likes cold and cooked food. She is very fast and we have a stable for her and I love Jilly to bits. By Stephen

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The Ford

Henry Ford made a deal with Henry Ferguson, which was sealed with only a handshake. Ferguson had invented the tree-point hitch and ford agreed to put it on his new ford 9n Tractor. This innovative technology endeared Ford's tractors, and in particular the model 9n to his farming customers. This was one of Ford's last major achievements in agricultural technology. He died on the 7 April 1944 & his grandson Henry ford II assumed charge of the company. It is impossible to quantify the impact Henry Ford had not just on the tractor industry with the 1.5 million tractors made by his company in his lifetime but on industry as a whole with his pioneering of mass production and assembly line techniques.
by Jack

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This is Flash. Meabh made a presentation about horse-riding. Here it is...

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Thank you for visiting our website. Our names are Brendan and Laurence. We are in 6th class, and we are the current editors.  Also, just to finish off, you might like to take a look back to this time last year.