Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

The numbers enrolling are small and the curriculum is being broadened to include nutrition, obesity, anorexia, bulimia and the other ills of modern Ireland that will be part of a comprehensive curriculum advance in the home economics debate. I remember having an interesting 8.30 a.m. meeting with the board and the then principal of St. Catherine's when those ideas were beginning to flower.

People talk about County Sligo as if it was in Siberia. It is a wonderful place, speaking as someone whose mother came from Drumcliffe.