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HISTORY QUIZ WINNERS
Back: R. O'Mahony, B. Doherty, C. McGorrian.
From: B. Donnellan, Ms A. Nevin, N. Webb, J. Healy.
HISTORY QUIZ with a clear five point lead over our
competitors.
This year's history quiz convened in Barry Doherty accepted a bronze
the auspicious surroundings of the statue of Cuchulainn (which was
Holy Faith Convent, Clontarf on immediately transferred into Miss
Thursday 28 January. The now annual e\ in's care) and each team-member
event draws schools from as far afield recei\·ed the princely sum of £10 for his
as Dundalk and Wexford. exertions. The team dispersed vic-
Gonzaga had won the competition torious and the 5th Years among our
last year. So it was with the intention party pledged to maintain the tradition
of maintaining that tradition that a next year.
delegation of four, (i.e. Barry Doherty,
Hugh McGovern, Nicholas Webb and Hugh ~lcGovern (S.6A)
Conor McGorrian) was dispatched to
Clontarf.
Although the timespan which the
quiz encompassed - 400 A.D. to the AM ESTY
present - day was extensive, we INTER ATIONAL
answered the majority of the questions
without difficulty. Our lowest score on We beliel'e in the dignity of all human
any round was 416 which left quite a beings. We wholeheartedly support the
healthy margin for error. The Catholic work of Amnesty International in de-
University School was our closest rival fence of all those who are imprisoned
during the quiz but our team emerged or tortured because of their peacefully
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Back: R. O'Mahony, B. Doherty, C. McGorrian.
From: B. Donnellan, Ms A. Nevin, N. Webb, J. Healy.
HISTORY QUIZ with a clear five point lead over our
competitors.
This year's history quiz convened in Barry Doherty accepted a bronze
the auspicious surroundings of the statue of Cuchulainn (which was
Holy Faith Convent, Clontarf on immediately transferred into Miss
Thursday 28 January. The now annual e\ in's care) and each team-member
event draws schools from as far afield recei\·ed the princely sum of £10 for his
as Dundalk and Wexford. exertions. The team dispersed vic-
Gonzaga had won the competition torious and the 5th Years among our
last year. So it was with the intention party pledged to maintain the tradition
of maintaining that tradition that a next year.
delegation of four, (i.e. Barry Doherty,
Hugh McGovern, Nicholas Webb and Hugh ~lcGovern (S.6A)
Conor McGorrian) was dispatched to
Clontarf.
Although the timespan which the
quiz encompassed - 400 A.D. to the AM ESTY
present - day was extensive, we INTER ATIONAL
answered the majority of the questions
without difficulty. Our lowest score on We beliel'e in the dignity of all human
any round was 416 which left quite a beings. We wholeheartedly support the
healthy margin for error. The Catholic work of Amnesty International in de-
University School was our closest rival fence of all those who are imprisoned
during the quiz but our team emerged or tortured because of their peacefully
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