PICTURES: St Mary's transition year students perform Raise Our Voice in Newport

On Wednesday, November 16, our 105 TY students took to the stage at Newport Community Centre to perform Raise Your Voice. 

Raise our Voice was our fifth annual production, and we were once again under the wonderful

stewardship of Ms Sarah Allen (Producer / Musical Director) and Ms Edel Shinners (Choreographer).

The school musical is a significant event in our school calendar. For the first time, our musical took place over four nights due to demand. 

BREAKING: Seven-year-old Tipperary boy coming home for palliative care

TD Michael Lowry read a letter by the boy's parents onto the Dáil record this week

Our main cast was as follows:

Deloris - Laura Parsons

Mother Superior - Alex Cox

Sister Mary Robert - Asha Slattery

Sister Mary Patrick - Ella Quirke

Sister Mary Lazarus - Shane O’Donohue

Monsignor O’Hara - Billy Moylan

Eddie - Cameron Byrne

Curtis - Martin McCabe

TJ - Luke Kennedy

Joey - Marcin Boch

Pablo - Cormac Meagher

Ernie/Cab Driver - Owen Grant

Tina - Katie O’Regan

Michelle - Heather Ryan

Crystal - Aoife Mellerick

Ensemble (Appear in all 4 Shows)

Katie O’Regan

Heather Ryan

Aoife Mellerick

Isobel Cassidy

Robin Coffey

Isabelle Collins

Isabel Ivers

Kate Finucane

Sinéad O’Riordan

Abigail Slattery

Muireann Jones

Dillon Walsh

Darragh Bourke

Niamh Lunn

Sophie Walker

Aisling McMahon

Slaine Goodwin

Lucy Bailey

Aoibhe Nugent

Aoife McNamara

Orlagh Rochford

Props Clodagh Healy 

Backstage Crew: Kate Buckeridge, Mikeala Hannon, Jamie Long, Sean Darcy, Harry Clohessy, Darren Collopy, Mark Lonergan, Matthew Walshe, Joseph Crowley, Tara O’Grady, Marion Kennedy, and Lucy Nolan.

Spotlights – Jack McCarthy, Darragh Meany

Well done to 4A1 and 4A2, who took to the stage for the matinee on Wednesday as well as Wednesday and Thursday Nights. 

Well done to 4A3 and 4A4, who took to the stage for Tuesday’s matinee as well as Friday and Saturday night. 

Special commendation to the production team and all staff in St Mary’s who support the production in numerous ways. Our Transition year Students, Parents and Guardians have been extremely helpful, assisting with costumes, ticket sales, spot prizes and front of house.

Sincere gratitude to all our patrons and sponsors, many of whom have supported us on an annual basis.

Thank you to our main sponsor Mulcair Credit Union and to all the local businesses and parents/ guardians for organising and donating the raffle spot prizes. 

A special mention for the Newport Community Centre team. Thank you sincerely for the use of the Community Centre, truly a facility of the highest standard.