On Friday last, I went on a bus with my friends from Rooms 15, 16,13,10 and 9A. We went to visit a stable in Fettercairn, Tallaght to visit the horses. In 1995, some people in the community saved money to set up the stable for a youth project in the area to help the youth in the area how to learn to take care of  horses and to provide lessons for the people in the community.

The horses were having their breakfast when we arrived. Hilary was the biggest horse and Lola was a little three year old pony. All the horses had names like Sunny, Biscuit and Elmo to name just a few. There was a small dog called Ron, he was a brown and white terrier and he followed the lady everywhere.

Every horse has to be fed, watered and exercised. We saw a horse called Clover being groomed and watched the saddle being put on her before she went out to the arena for a lesson. My favourite was Lola, the pony as she was gentle and really cute.

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Today’s saying : Is fearr Gaeilge briste, ná Bearla clíste.

As followers of this website will know Joey’s is an extremely busy little school and today was no exception. . . We were delighted to entertain and  interact with almost one hundred Uruguayans from another C.B.S in their capital Montevideo. . . It is fair to say that we all had a great time. . .

Early in the morning we all gathered in the hall to display some of our talents for the visitors. Miss Stewart was a very capable M.C, and Miss O Brien’s class teamed up with Miss Quinlan’s to set the tone with a combination of top class choreography and singing.

The visiting Uruguayan students watched, we continued to perform our cultural pieces, a blend of old and new, with Mr. Gillespie’s class to the fore!

As we are approaching Seachtain na Gaeilge, lots of our pieces were in our own native tongue agus tá moladh ar leith tuillte ag Fionn Baker mar gheall ar a chuid cumais agus é ag léamh dán de chuid An Phiarsaigh, “Mise Éire” . Steven Doran also explained the background and history that the slow air Boolavouge celebrates before his class performed some top class tin-whistling!

As things began to reach fever pitch, Mr. McDonald’s whipped the hall in a whirling frenzy with an energetic take on Avici, all as Gaeilge. Maith sibh lads!

After appreciating our talents our visitors from Montevideo were only too happy to enthrall us with some flamenco dancing of their own! This surely was a first for our little school hall . . .

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And that was it! A great day was had by all. . . Although the Uruguayans somehow managed to beat the Joey’s team in an exhibition match in the circle Mr. McDonald has vowed revenge for next year in the away leg!! Viva Joey’s!!!