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Raising the Green Flag
over Gonzaga
On April 24th 2009 Eamon Ryan (1981), in his capacity as a past
pupil but also incidentally as Minister for Communicaions, Energy
and Natural Resources, hoisted Gonzaga’s green lag, to which
we had become enitled due to the iniiaive of two students,
Ben McRedmond and Hugh O’Flanagan, and a commitee of staf
whose prime movers included Bernadete Rooney, the school’s
Faciliies Manager, and Siobhan McNamara, school Librarian. Hugh
O’Flanagan’s accompanying aricle explains the background.
Eamon Ryan arrived, iingly, on his bike, though strikingly
without helmet or high vis jacket (the Minister may take this as Mr
Bevan’s riposte to a scurrilous anecdote he related to the enire
school community about his former teacher’s trousers). He spoke
to the gathered student body eloquently and with great passion of
the need to develop a philosophy based on relecion and sound
principle.
In 1993 Eamon wrote in The Gonzaga Record of the career
cul-de-sacs that led him ulimately, through a period of voluntary
work, to heading a business venture called ‘Irish Cycling Safaris’.
Addressing Sixth Year readers, he advised them to ‘keep an open
mind on their opions . . . you will always be able to change tack, no
mater what your age or experience.’ Where next, Minister?
Above, Eamon Ryan raises the green flag.
The boys watching the flag-raising.
over Gonzaga
On April 24th 2009 Eamon Ryan (1981), in his capacity as a past
pupil but also incidentally as Minister for Communicaions, Energy
and Natural Resources, hoisted Gonzaga’s green lag, to which
we had become enitled due to the iniiaive of two students,
Ben McRedmond and Hugh O’Flanagan, and a commitee of staf
whose prime movers included Bernadete Rooney, the school’s
Faciliies Manager, and Siobhan McNamara, school Librarian. Hugh
O’Flanagan’s accompanying aricle explains the background.
Eamon Ryan arrived, iingly, on his bike, though strikingly
without helmet or high vis jacket (the Minister may take this as Mr
Bevan’s riposte to a scurrilous anecdote he related to the enire
school community about his former teacher’s trousers). He spoke
to the gathered student body eloquently and with great passion of
the need to develop a philosophy based on relecion and sound
principle.
In 1993 Eamon wrote in The Gonzaga Record of the career
cul-de-sacs that led him ulimately, through a period of voluntary
work, to heading a business venture called ‘Irish Cycling Safaris’.
Addressing Sixth Year readers, he advised them to ‘keep an open
mind on their opions . . . you will always be able to change tack, no
mater what your age or experience.’ Where next, Minister?
Above, Eamon Ryan raises the green flag.
The boys watching the flag-raising.
