Hard to believe it’s forty five years since I stood in the shoes of these youngsters. Little if any acknowledgement we were there on that first day - certainly no photos taken or FB posts afterwards 😀. We were just assigned our classrooms on that first day in 1974 and marched into “the prefabs”. A little less than 5 years later we left with even less acknowledgement. No recognition of achievements - we just walked out of the exam hall after that final leaving cert exam into the rest of our lives. We didn’t think anything of it. That’s just the way it was back then. Having said all that Beneavin College was a wonderful place to go to school (for me at least). A great bunch of (mostly) very dedicated teachers who inspired and instilled a love of learning in me. Best of luck to 2019’s First Years.

In 1987 we were held outside the old hall as then principal Dan Hanley barked out our names alphabetically and we were ordered to join a designated line, one for each of the five new classes that starting. When all was selected, we were marched into the hall and, with the aforementioned Dan Hanley on the stage, were given the ‘welcome to Beneavin’ speech. Let’s just say we knew where we stood 🙂

God love them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

1983

1979 I was that soldier 👍,

Mick Bernes