SPEECH: Sixth Year student Lia Murphy gave a speech on Graduation Day.

GRADUATION DAY: Alison Moynihan, Ciara Moynihan, Ava Leslie, Naoise O'Shea and Holly Power who graduated from St Brigid's.

St Brigid's students celebrated their graduation day on Friday last saying goodbye to school life as they prepare for the future.

The students enjoyed an awards ceremony in the morning and later Kilcummin Gourmet Kitchen prepared special individual lunch packs for the girls. Afterwards they went over to the cathedral for their graduation Mass however it was just students this year as parents weren't allowed due to ongoing COVID restrictions, but they many tuned in online via the St Mary's Cathedral webcam.

The theme of their graduation was 'To Infinity and Beyond' derived from the movie 'Toy Story', where the strength of friendship and freedom are tested.

"And for all of us, our journey’s just begun"

"I believe this works in perfect correlation with our year group," said Sixth Year student Lia Murphy, who gave the student speech on behave of her year group.

Saying it was a very different graduation day to what the students envisioned, she thanked principal Roisin Moore, Ms Lucey and Year Head Ms. McElligott for their unwavering dedication and for organising their graduation.

"A big thank you is also needed to our parents and family members who would have loved to have been here with us. It has been a rough couple of months with endless uncertainties, but you guided us through it all.

"To say we have been unlucky in our current circumstances would be an understatement, socially distanced, masked and no debs was not how anyone wanted this to go. However, if anything was to prepare us for life after school it would be a global pandemic."

To wrap this all up, she quoted principal, Roisin Moore.

“We shall emerge happy, confident, mature young woman with all the skills to reach our potential in whatever we choose to do, and we are destined to make a positive contribution to the world.”
And for all of us, our journey’s just begun."