Jharkhali India collection at Donnybrook Church Sunday 27th October

Seb ironing t-shirts for church collection before going to work experience

 We held a church gate collection at Donnnybrook Church last weekend and the parishioners again dug deep (they have supported us every year since 2002). The priests gave a great talk at each Mass praising our school, our students and our education project in the Sunderbans.The Calcutta School Building Fund benefitted by €2045 which is brilliant and will go a long way to supporting our project in Jharkhali next  January.

Hannah, Christian and Clara at Donnybrook Church for India collection

Mass-Goers Contribute to India Collection

Rory's Work Experience

Rory  Smith did his work experience with Richard Boyd Barrett of People before Profit. Here he is pictured beside Richard in his Dáil office and in the other photo is listening to Mick Wallace (in pink) making his budgetary submission in an otherwise empty chamber to the minister for finance, Michael Noonan.

Part of Rory's  report:

"It was all very interesting and I got to see it all first hand. I learned a lot about politics. Even though I'm working with the socialist party, (based partly on what I saw yesterday) I'll probably vote for Sinn Féin when I'm older. Today I did more filing and photocopying before lunch except this time I was photocopying leaflets to give out at the teachers' protest. After lunch, I went to two protests. The first was protesting against the mistreatment of Sudanese asylum seekers by the government. The second was the aforementioned teachers' protest demanding equal pay for equal work where I gave out leaflets inviting people to come to a speech Richard Boyd Barrett was giving later. There was thousands of people there. Nobody seemed too interested in the leaflets to be honest. I think my employer is being fair to me. The filing can get tedious, but I don't mind it too much."