RSS
News


comment on article Make a comment
print this article Print
email this articleE-mail

Want an education in Ireland? You'll have to sing for it!

'Where is our school?' Irish schoolchildren sing for help

By
Dara McBride
,
Irish Central.com Staff Writer

Published Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:25 PM
Updated Friday, October 30, 2009, 9:48 AM

Vote now - Buzz this up!


Want an education in Ireland? You'll have to sing for it! | Irish News | IrishCentral




Read more: Dublin, Celebrity News, Entertainment, Internet, Internet Broadcasting, Music Stars, Science and Technology, Technology, Media Sector, Music Retailers
Where is our school? Children release song to raise funds for proper classroom after 14 years in Quonset huts
Where is our school? Children release song to raise funds for proper classroom after 14 years in Quonset huts

We’ve all heard of singing for your supper, but having to sing for a classroom might be a song too far.

But that's just what some Irish schoolchildren are doing with a catchy new song called "Ca Bhfuil Ar Scoil?" (Where Is Our School?).

The children at Gaelscoil Bharra in Dublin have spent the past 14 years slogging in quonset huts instead of the proper classrooms they were promised back in 1995.

Their plight attracted the attention of Dublin band Tupelo who went down to the school to record the song.

Next thing you know the song is rocketing up YouTube and is outselling Whitney Houston at Tower Records in Dublin.

All the proceeds from the record will go to the building of a new school, but it's a crying shame it came to this in the first place.

Vote now - Buzz this story up!


Want an education in Ireland? You'll have to sing for it! | Irish News | IrishCentral


print this article Print
email this articleE-mail


Be the first to make a comment.



IrishCentral on Twitter




remember me on this computer
forget your password?     
IrishCentral.com is also home to Irish Voice and Irish America magazine