Ms Eimear O'Rourke:

It was, without a doubt, hugely challenging. However, we were successful. Our biggest fear was the isolation of our students. They need to be together and learn together. We were fortunate to have good benefactors in the Lions Club of Ireland, in particular the Dublin Lions which funded our school to purchase Chromebooks. On the day the school broke up, we were able to send students home with Chromebooks and that is how we kept in contact with our students. But for that, we would have been completely lost. We had good daily interaction then on the Internet, keeping in touch with our students.

However, the impacts have been huge. This can be seen in all the learning our students missed out on during those years and all the separateness that happened over that time. We compliment our staff who worked so hard to ensure the children's well-being was so well supported.