Best Christmas Ever by William Mc Carthy

One cold Christmas morning… I heard something on the roof climbing down the chimney I snuck down the stairs I saw some fat fella in a bright red suit with a red hat and a white ball at the end. It was Santa Clause! He was putting two YZ 85 scramblers under the Christmas tree with the rest of my presents. He ate all the delicious Christmas cookies and drank an ice cold glass of Avonmore milk.  He took the orange carrot off the plate and he put in his pocket for Rudolph his reindeer with the very shiny nose . I ran up- stairs to wake my brother up. When he woke up, the two of us ran down stairs to see if he was still there. He was gone. The two of us took off our pj’s and put on some old clothes. Then we went back down stairs and opened the big front door very quietly then wheeled out our YZ 85s. The two YZ 85s started first kick!. The two of us went all over to look for Santa Cause. We looked up at the dark sky. There he was on his way back to the North pole. So then we knocked for my friend. My friend opened the door he was ready to come out on his KX 65. Just then he asked me for a race from Sheriffer up to the Sunset. I said yeah. He was winning at the start but when I got on a straight road my YZ 85 left him for dust. It was the best Christmas Ever.  

We are doing a project on the Rosie Hackett Bridge. We are going to be displaying our project in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS on the 9th of January. Seán Harrington, the architect who designed the bridge came in to speak to us this morning.

We sat around a big table. We had lots of questions for him which he answered and explained through drawings. He told us how the bridge was going to support the Luas and about it’s design. We don’t want to tell you about that now though, because it will ruin the surprise of our project!

Seán was really helpful. He gave us lots of ideas for our project. He was really interesting and it was a very different morning for us! He told us a funny story about why he wanted to be an architect and I think its given some of us ideas about being an architect or a designer when we're older.

1913 Lockout by Josh Doran

James Larkin was involved in the 1913 lockout. He organised the strikes and set up unions. Workers went on strike because they were working for too long and they were not getting paid enough. 20,000 people went on strike. Factory owners brought in scabs to take their jobs. On the forth of December 2013,sixth class in St Laurence O’Tooles C.B.S went down to Merchant Road. We went down because it was the one hundred year anniversary of people being evicted from their homes. When we were there we saw a mural painted from a photograph that was taken that day. The artist was there and he told us about the mural. Joe from the East Wall History Society gave us the talk. Only two families from the road were not evicted because they were too sick. They were later evicted in the new year.