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As we spoke about those early years, and how it feels to have generation
The list went on… It would be next to impossible to tell all the stories here, to thank all the people who have helped make St Laurence’s first 40 years such apparently joyous ones.
St Laurence’s 1979
hen sitting down this afternoon with Principal Catherine Coveney in her 
office at St Laurence’s National School, it didn’t take long to realise the deep roots that have been grown here over the years.
hen sitting down this afternoon with Principal Catherine Coveney in her 
office at St Laurence’s National School, it didn’t take long to realise the deep roots that have been grown here over the years.About to celebrate its 40th birthday with a Summer Fun Day on Friday, June 23rd, St Laurence’s has seen a huge chunk of Greystones’ population pass through its doors.
Young Micheál is held back again
That kind of history goes well beyond mere yearbooks, as all those little children head out into the world to have their own adventures. And their own little ones. Given that it’s now forty years since St Laurence’s first opened its doors, quite a few of those original kids now have their grandchildren saying good morning to Mrs Coveney.
after generation pass through St Laurence’s, Mrs Coveney was full of praise for everyone in the school but herself. The original deputy principal, Maureen O’Reilly, and the current one, Carol Mooney; all the “magnificent volunteers“; the “incredible teachers” who, she felt, “are the real backbone of any good school“…