The Story of Miley Cyrus, the Late, Late and Me

About three weeks ago RTE came into the school to interview our school guitar group.
It was for a Stephen Gately tribute which they were making. When the people from RTE came in we were all excited. we went into the 'Parents Room', talked a bit, then went to work. We were playing The Climb by Miley Cyrus on our guitars. We took about five shoots and we were finished.

Two weeks later our guitar teacher, Ms. Larkin, got a phone call from RTE saying that Miley Cyrus had heard us playing The Climb and that she was so impressed that she gave us tickets to the Late Late show when she is on it tomorrow night. When we heard we were so excited. Can't wait, it's on Friday!!

By Jordan. D

Ps. We did say JD is the new Bono!

Winning in Croke Park

I woke up nervous and then my mates knocked for me. So I got up, dressed and got my breakfast and off the way we went to Croker. So when we got there, we had to wait till our match was on. So we were looking at another match.
Before the match was on we had to go down the dressing rooms to get dressed and get warm before the match kicked off. When we were warm enough we went out to the pitch to get the match started.
The ref blew the whistle and the game kicked off! Shane kicked the ball over the bar for the first point and we were winning by my point until they came back. It went to extra time and the rest is history!

By Killian D.

Ps. Check me out, celebrating in style!!

Winning in Croke Park

I was nervous at first but when I walked onto the pitch, it felt like I was king of the world or something. Even if we didn’t win I still would have been happy for just playing in Croker. So when we won, it was the best moment in my life, people cheering us on. It was great to see all my mates happy and Ms. Harte and Mr Brennan and especially for the school.

The goal I scored was lovely - from the half way – I’m not even messin’!! That goal finished it because Nato scored 1 minute before me. That meant we were in the lead by six points. We won, it was great, the first team from our school in 56 years to win at Croke Park!

By Jake

Ps. Check out the celebration above - world class from a world class player - well done Jake! - Mr. O' L.!

A Breslin Poem

Two months ago we started on our way,
We are going to win on Saturday,
We beat teams like they never turned up!
Hopefully now we can win the cup!!

We had mountains to climb,
But now it is our time,
We’ll win all before us,
And tour the city in a open air bus!

Now we are here,
We need are fans to cheer,
It’s our last time,
So we will shine!!

By Josh

Playing in Croke Park

'Playing in Croke Park means everything to all of us on the Gaelic team.
The school is very happy that we made it because we tried our best'.
Jake Kelly

'Playing in Croke Park is like a dream come true. If you really think about it. All the great football players, rugby players and gaa players that have played on that pitch. Now it is our turn to show what we are made of. We all want to win because we want our names to be remembered in the history of the school and everywhere else. The last time our school made it I was in 2nd class and they lost. They were heartbroken. Now we want to win and we want to make us proud and our Gaelic teacher Ms. Harte because I don’t think she has ever won there. We are going to make her proud'
Josh Breslin

'Playing in Croke Park means everything to me because
my brother played there but lost. The last team to play and win there from our school
was 56 years ago. If we win it will be the best feeling ever'.
Nathan Barrett

Croke Park Victory

It all started two months ago,
We haven’t lost a match since the first throw,
Were gonna win on Saturday,
Green and white all the way.

We beat Gabriels, James and Marlboro St,
When we play Gaelic, we have magic in our feet,
This is our last Gaelic game,
Were gonna leave Brunner in shame.

We scored points, goals and had some fun,
The best of our Gaelic hasn’t even begun,
Hopefully we will be the best,
Give example to the rest.

On Saturday our nerves didn’t show,
We went on the pitch and played with our normal flow.
In extra-time we kept their score to zero,
After the match everybody was a hero.

Eric Hyland.

Croke Park Pride

Two months we started on our way,
Beating teams every schoolday,
The finals are here,
We have no fear,
Lead the way to victory on Saturday.

The crowd is here,
Giving us a big cheer,
The whistle blows,
And now were here,
Well keep the score nice and simple.

Leave them helpless with our hands and feet
We will be hard are we to beat,
Tired and glum will be Brunner
Maybe they should do a runner!

Luke Bewley

Croke Park Poem

We’re so excited, can’t wait ,
You know I wont be late,
We score points for fun,
We’ll do it for everyone.

We have being waiting for a year,
Now the final is here,
We will be everywhere,
Come on lads, it’s nearly there .

So get out there and be proud,
We’re all in the crowd,
We will be waiting for you ,
With the news if you win or lose.

Now we have won ,
Now all of this is done ,
We were waiting for years,
So don’t burst into tears.

Shake their hands ,
Then run to the stands,
To get the cup,
Then lift it up.

It has been 56 years since we won,
Now we're number one,
We won it ‘cause we had fun.

Jordan Doody

Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'

By Jordan Doody

By Taylor Murphy

By Luke Bewley

By Jake Kelly

We recently created different versions of Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'. We used different art materials each week. We used paint, pencil and soft chalk pastels. The versions of 'Starry Night' above were created with these different art materials.

By Jordan, Taylor, Luke and Jake.

Caring in the Community - Wrapping Time

Check us out! We are wrapping the boxes here which we will fill with presents for the Dublin Simon Community. We visited the offices of PWC to wrap the presents. Each person from the centre will get their own box - we their name on each box.

By Jordan D., Jordan G., Luke, Alex and Leon

Caring in the Community - Present Time

This week we are going to the offices of PWC to put together the gifts we have collected so far and wrap them with the people from PWC.
This year we are doing a project with PWC and Localise with Derek. We started it about 4 weeks ago and about 2 weeks ago we decided we were going to help the Dublin Simon Community. Two people out of the Dublin Simon Community came in and talked to us about what they do up there.
So to help them we decided to collect the gifts they wished for. We all designed our own Christhmas cards and posters which we will put on the sboxes which we will fill with lots of presents of their choice and give it to the people who live in the Dublin Simon Community.
The 3rd and the 4th of December we will sell the cards in the PWC building to all the people who work there . This was a big success last year and this year we hope it will be even bigger and better this year and when we are over there we sing lots of Christmas Carols to create a Christams atmosphere.

By Luke Bewley and Eric Hyland

The Awful Egyptians

We studied the Egyptians last week. We learnt about mummies and tombs and ancient beliefs and gods.
Mummies
When an Egyptian King, Queen or Noble died the Egyptians would preserve their bodies by wrapping their bodies in bandages. Their bodies would be dried out in chemical natron to prevent it from rotting away. This would take about 70 days to complete .
Tombs
When an Egyptian King, Queen or Noble die they would be put in a tomb, a tomb is like a coffin. The biggest tomb is a pyramid, a pyramid would be filled with all thier jewellery and all of their possessions. The pyramids had many secret passage ways and traps so when people tried to rob the pyramid they would get lost .
Ancient Beliefs
Ancient Egyptians believed that there was an afterlife. People who died were sent to the afterlife, first your heart had to be weighed and if your heart was lighter than the feather of truth you would be sent there. If your heart was heavier than the feather of truth you be sent to hell. The Kings, Queens and Nobles would go straight to the afterlife and their hearts would not have to be weighed..
Egyptian Gods
The people of Egypt believe in eight different gods and their names are Ra, Sobek, Isis, Seth, Osiris, Amon, Horus and Anubis . Anubis has the head of the jackal and Ra has the head of a falcon and sun disk .

By Eric Hyland

The Romans

We studied the Roman Empire recently and discovered many interesting things, cool things and gross things.

Julius Caesar

The first thing we learned about was Julius Caesar. We learned that Julius Caesar designed most of the great things in Rome such as the sewage system, he was one of the first to use housing estates and tall buildings. He was famous for wearing red boots. Unfortunately he was killed in the Senate because the power was going to his head. He wanted to become the most powerful emperor. He was killed by a man called Brutus.

Food

The next thing we learned was that Romans ate really weird food such as snails soaked in milk, boar's heads and brains soaked in sauce. Their main food was pottage, a bit like stew.

The Army

The next thing was the army. The Roman army was one of the tougest armys in the world. You would have to serve 25 years until they become a citizen of Rome.

Facts

Here are so more facts. In Rome children in Rome had no power. Their parents could get them executed for disobedience. After meals they would go to the vomititarium, probably becuase they ate gross food sometimes. They made one of the the first swimming pools. They called it the Romans baths.

By Jordan Doody

(The next Bono - you heard it here first!!)

Winter

The Famine

Today there are about 5 million people living on the island of Ireland. Around the time of Daniel O’Connell, the population was about eight million. Most of the people were very poor. They lived in tiny cabins on small patches of land and had to pay rent to the landlords who owned the land.

The blight
In September 1845 a strange new disease attacked the potato crop in Ireland.

The Famine

In September 1845 a strannge new dieseas called the Blight stroke Irelands potato crop.

It was a disaster many people died and lost lots over its chaos. Ireland was also affected but as usual they pulled through it many people had to work in workhouses.

The reason it affected them was because potatoes were all they had to eat and it was easy to grow.

Ireland has had their own bit of horrible history and here is some;

OWEN TRAINER; STEALING ONIONS; FLOGGED.

By Luke Bewley

Caring in the Community

This year we are working with Localise, PWC and the Dublin Simon Community. Last year we worked with Localise and PWC to raise money for Temple Street Hospital. Click here to read about last year. This year we are helping the homeless. There is a place in Sean McDermot Street called the Dublin Simon Community Shelter. It is for people who are homeless and people that may have had some problems in their life. The people that live in Dublin Simon get their own room.
Last week the manager of Dublin Simon came in and start telling us about Dublin Simon. He brought a lady that lived in Dublin Simon and she told us all about her life, how it can be hard and difficult sometimes. That is why we want to help Dublin Simon so the people will know someone cares about them.
We are giving them a box with lots of presents in it. We made a load of Christmas cards too.We hope they like the presents that are in each box. We hope to give every person in the shelter their own box of presents this Christmas.
By Josh Breslin

A Dark Night

It was a dark night. I was walking by the old house on the Third Avenue of Seville Place. Suddenly Vlad the Vampire appeared in the window.
It was a dark night but I didn't care. I ran up the stairs to see if he was still there. He was lying in the middle of the floor. I tried to take a picture but he disappeared into the air. A fire started in the house! I ran down the stairs but Vlad the Vampire locked the door. I had to jump out the window and into a lode of thorns! OOW!!
I called the fire brigade. They went and put it out.The house was black from the smoke. I went back in and went up stairs to see if he was still there. He wwas there. He was dead but his picture was still on the wall, the fire did not touch it.

By Karl McCarthicus

The Big Match

It's Manchester United versus Arsenal, the cup final!
Straight to it - Manchester United are messing around - oh no! Neville loses the ball! Arshavin gets it. Vidic is desperate - he lunges. Crack!!! Vidic fouls Arshavin. Silence. The ref slowly moves his lips to his whistle - oh no! It's a penalty to Arsenal and a red for Vidic!!. Ferguson fumes! But Van der Saar comes to the rescue! and saves it.
Then Giggs runs the pitch, shoots and hits the top bar, it was so close! Next Rooney gets the ball outside the box, 20 yards out and gets lifted. It's a free kick. The final whistle is next. It is up to Scholes. He shoots. "Go on" scream the crowd together. He scores!
It's a miracle, MAN UNITED WIN THE FA CUP !!!

By Jake 'The Ledge'cake' Kelly

A Visitor

One day a tourist from Ireland went to visit a country called Romania, in the year 1722. His name was a Moses Murphy. During his holiday Moses decided to visit a gallery. He was at an art gallery looking at the work of Popescu when he felt sleepy.
Suddenly he woke up. He was in a castle! He was in shock! People were surrounding him. People with big long faces, big long nails and eyes. They were closing him into the corner.
But suddenly...... 'Stop' says a deep voice. 'I'm so sorry for my butlers troubling you'. Moses says sleepliy " What am I doing here?". But the man in the big black cloak did'nt respond.
Moses asked again. The man said "You had a bad fall in the gallery this morrning'. So the man asked Moses to eat with him. Moses thought sure why not. Moses asked the old man his name. The man said "Count Dracula''!
Moses said 'how can it be so?? Oh no!!'. Dracula pounced on Moses and drew the blood from his neck! The last thing moses said was 'how can it be!!'.
So still to this day Moses walkes around as a VAMPIRE in the castle in Romania. Be careful if you ever go there!

By Jake 'The Ledge'cake' Kelly

The Conker Champion '09

The 'Conker Championship '09' was held in school last week. It was one dry day in October.
We were having a conker competition. In my first match I played Taylor and I won.
Then I went on to beat Darell. it took ages but eventually I won so I went on to play Luke in the semi's - I won.
I was in the final with Alex.I knew it was going to be hard because Alex is good. We were only 2 minutes in the fight and it was his shot. He walloped it his hardest and his one smashed!! I won and everyone jumped on me and picked me up and gave me the 'kings chair'. I was delighted with my life. I didn't even think I was going to win but I did!!!

By Josh Breslin

The 155th Floor

The Burj tower, 155 stories high. To be the worlds tallest building. There I stood with only a parachute. I got in by disguise, as a builder. It was the easy part. Here comes the hard part. I started climbing the crane perched on the top of the tower. I was careful not to slip, if I did I would fall and most likely die. Finally I reached the top of the crane. The cold air around me. Hard to breath this high up, but I still felt confident about this. I wasn't going to back down from this. With one last gasp of breath I jumped. Falling for 7 seconds. I pulled the cord, but it was jammed. I kept calm and tried to fix it, success. Just in time. I started gliding gently towards the ground.
August 6 12:32 pm I jumped from the Burj tower.

By Alex Fay

We studied mini-beasts

Last week we studied mini-beasts.

What is an insect?

Insects can be distingiushed from other small animals by their six legs and three body parts (head, thorax and abdomen) antennae, compound eye and wings (usually, but not always).

Insect abilities?

Insects have some amazing abilities. Grasshoppers can jump 40 times the length of its body, ants can carry objects that weight 100 times the weight of thier body.

Where do insects live?

Insects live everywhere, forests, deserts, jungles, grasslands, swamps, ponds and streams-even inside the bodies of other animals.

How many species of insects are there?

By current estimates there may be as many as 10 million different species. The most common group of insects are the beetles, butterflies and moths,ants, wasps and bees, flies, grasshoppers and crickets.

By Eric Hyland!

Mini Beasts the Movie

Mini Beasts the Movie from Larriers Videos on Vimeo.

The Famine

The famine started in 1845. the mustake ireland made was then depended on one food witch was patato.they depended on patato because the could grow in small spaces they could grow any time a year and they could fill you.then a new diesease attacked ireland

Apple Crumble

On Friday our class made apple crumble in cooking. The first thing we did was go into the kitchen to eat and Mr Candon got the fry he wanted.
We cut the apples to make make the crumble.
We made the crumble with margarine, brown sugar and dough. Then we put it in the oven to cook. We waited for a half an hour for the crumble to cook so we went into a room with Ger. We learned how to set up a table. This Friday we are going to have our parents over to Fáilte Ireland to cook dinner for them. We will be cooking white chicken with a white sauce and garlic bread. For dessert we will be having apple crumble again.

By Leon O'Brien

Cheesy Garlic Bread

Pizza

First we got our dough and rolled it. We needed flour so the dough wouldn't stick to the rolling pin or the table. When we had all of our dough in a circle we put tomato sauce on the surface of the dough. Next we put our toppings on it, we had a choice of onion, tomatoes, mushrooms, ham, chicken, pineapple , cheese and anchovies. We put the pizza in the oven and waited for it to go brown and crispy.

By Paul 'The Big Chill' F.

Fairy Cakes

We have recently started cooking classes with Fáilte Ireland. The chefs that are teaching us how to cook are Chef Caroline and Geraldine. It is really great up there. We each got a new uniform with cool steel capped boots. And a really cool chef's jacket, just like the cooks on tv.
Last week we made fairy cakes - we used butter, caster sugar, 2 eggs, raising flour and milk - and when we put them in the oven we got to choose toppings. We chose milk chocolate icing and white chocolate buttons. Very tasty!!
Next week we are going to make pizza!!

By Leandro

The Lord Mayor's Cup - The Final

When we got to The Lord Mayor's Cup Final we were against St.Gabriels. Outside we won the football,the peno's and we lost the racing. The people that competed for our school in the racing are my teacher Barry O Leary, and my friends Dean, Jordan, Shane, Alex, Taylor and William.
Inside it was basketball. The only one to score in the match was me. Back at the climbing wall I was on the same side that I lost on in the Semi-Finals. The people from my school that were competing are Andy (the sna) me, Alex, Shane D, Shane R and Leon. I slipped again on the wall and lost to a girl.
We all sat down and waited for the man with the results. We waited outside for the man with the results. He came out and announced that WE WON!!!!!! We got a trophy, gold medals and a picture with the lord mayor. Larriers Rule!!!!!!

By Anthony
Artwork also by Anthony!! (Very cool!)

Lord Mayor's Cup - The Semi-Final

When we heard about the Lord Mayor's Cup we were very excited. It sounded like it was fun and it was. When we won the first round we went through to the Semi-Final. When we got to the Semi-Finals we were against St.Vincents.
It was a draw in the football, we won the peno's and then the racing. Inside we were playing basketball. Paul from our school got the first basket in. Then one of the Vincent's players scored. Then I scored. We won 2-1 in the basketball.
Then we did wall climbing. I was against someone slow but he ended up winning because there was a part of the wall I couldn't reach. We all sat down (All the schools sat down) and waited for the results. The man came in with his whistle around his neck and his clipboard. We Did It!!!!!! We made it to the finals. Larriers Rule!!!!!!

By Anthony

Legominds Roboshow Slideshow

The Legominds Roboshow Slideshow! Check it out!!

Legominds Roboshow

Check out our snaps (thanks Ian!) from our trip to the Legominds Roboshow!

'Handsomest' larriers or wha??!! yisser massif!!

11th Annual Lego Minds Roboshow

Yesterday myself, William, Dean and Alex went to the 11th annual Lego Minds Roboshow.We went with Breda.

We designed a building site based on what we see at Spencer Dock. The things we designed, built and brought were a crane, a cement mixer, a forklift, security hut and a fan.

It was great to go and see what other kids were doing around the county too.

There was a lot off great things there like some other schools had the new Lego.

One off them that I saw was a robot that can kick a ball and a swing like baseball bat.

We were there for most off the day so that was good for us!! It wasn't competing, it was just a place were we could see other people doing different things so that was cool too.

By Leon

Victory in the Cup!!

Yesterday we had a match against our arch enemies O' Connell's. Our sir said it was like a local derby, a match between two teams from the same city - like Manchester United and Manchester City or Liverpool and Everton. Except this time it was Larriers against O' Connell's!!.

We played very good and I played left back and Willo, Haydo played in the center and ric played right.The defence did class and Deano, Leon played center-mid and Nato played left and Shayo played right and they played class.

Any time u would look at Deano he would be defending, running foward and just all over midfield! The same with Leon. Jordan and Taylor played up foward and sometimes Jordan helped out with the back and the midfield.

Willo and Haydo they were just BRILLIANT !!!!!! But iin the end we got 4 CLASS GOALS.... and that was enough to win - we are though to the next round of the cup - we want to make a little larrier's history 'cause it's our last year. C'mon the Larriers!!

By Corrie

First Match of the Season

Last week our school team went out to Edenmore to play our first football match of the new year. So it was going to be a different team to the one we had last year. It was going to be a bit different.
When we got to Edenmore, we were all getting ready for the match when Mr. Candon comes and tells us that he had forgotten the jerseys. We all laughed. So he had to get some jerseys off St. Malachy's, the team we were going to be playing against. The jerseys were tiny but we got them to fit us.It was very funny!!
The match started. The team was looking good and then we got off to a flyer when Jordan Lee put the ball into the back of the net. 1-0 to the Larriers. WHAT A START!!! Then a few minutes later Malachy's had a great chance their striker took around Sean in the goal and shot. He thought he had scored until Hayden ran back in and got the ball off the line! It was a let off for us.
So we got our act together and the ball came to Jordan. He passed it to me and I passed it to Shane Boyle. He took it around the keeper and scored 2-0 to the Larriers.
Then a minute later I got the ball in midfield and went on a run and scored 3-0 the Larriers.
The ref then blew the whistle for half time we were walking away with the game. The second half kicked off and we were up for it so we just played simple football just like United (something that Liverpool can't do) (Eh? Excuse me lads?? - The Sir) and we got another goal. Willo this time got through on goal and the keeper came out and he just dinked it over his head.
It was a cracker 4-0 to the Larriers, game over. The Larriers won their first game of the new season yeahhhhhhhhhhh.

By Dean, Corrie and Jordan.

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St. Patrick's Day and the Leprechaun's Gold!

I couldn't believe my eyes. There was a leprechaun picking shamrock in the field next to my house. Every body knows that the leprechaun will tell you where a pot of gold is hidden if you catch them and let them go. So all i had to do was catch this leprechaun and then I'd be rich!So here's how I trapped the leprechaun.
I changed into my army camouflage suit. I got a trapping gun like the Ghostbuster's gun and snuck closer to the leprechaun. But I realised the gun was dead. I needed new batteries. I had to run back to my house to get them. Luckily when I returned the leprechaun was still there.
I slid the new batteries in. I crept down onto my front and made my way over to him. I shot the catching net. I got him and he said 'If you let me go I will show you my pot of gold'.
I let him go and he gave me his pot of gold. I was rich. I gave loads of money to charity. Then I bought loads of stuff and built a secret leprechaun hut for all leprechauans to stay and play in.

By Paul

Lego Mindstorms (Part 7!)

When we were asked to design something from a building site, myself and Leon thought about a crane - there are lots of cranes on the sites around here, especially at Spencer Dock. There are usually cranes on every building site.
To build the crane we first needed to construct a solid base. We started to build the base of the crane then the arm. We used bricks for the base and beams for the arm. Then we put some beams across and carefully put string through the holes. This was attached to a pulley. We used string to lift stuff up.
We programmed the RCX box later on the whiteboard. We chose direction and times that the motor should move. We programmed the motor to go down for two seconds and then change, and move backwards for two seconds. It was tops!

By Eric

Base Jumping!!

In the late hours of a Friday night on December 12th 2003 a base jumper named as Dean Byrne surprisingly got inside the Barj building in Dubai. It is the tallest building in the world. All he had was a tiny parachute, so why was he going to risk his life for something so stupid as that.
He had been sitting up there for 2 hours thinking of what way to jump and what way to land. So he took one last sup of his water and he counted to three and just took one big huge leap out into the freezing cold air of Dubai.
His face was plastered to the wind.He took just 8 seconds to fall from the tallest building in the world to the ground.He had pulled his parachute at 4 seconds because he was going that fast. He landed on a construction site just underneath the building. WHAT A STUNT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Deano