CSN Halcyon Days.

[Corks finest]

His son Denis Burns, also a primary teacher, played hurling for The Barrs in the 70s.

Don Lynch ( nephew of Jack)
“Tip yere toes ye feckers “

Goal keeper’s Hurley stick across the arse as punishment

 

[Swanforthelough]

TF Murphy was a decent sort and quite a modern thinker on education.

was lost on me, i dont remember him introducing anything modern when i was there but as usual im probably wrong about most things.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

I was one of the "performers" in Joseph and his amazing, Technocolour etc etc.

I started there in September 1975 so "Children Of Lir" was my first participation alongside Paul Tiernan. I was an extra.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Motherway was a bollox with the pointer stick- I was in the band and God help ya if you were out of tune- wallop across the handies



We’d Harry Harry Higgins aswell ( looper)

My mate Pat Herlihy of Curraheen village roared at me 2 years back in the small Dunne’s “


“ hey what about the time we robbed tbe penny for the black babies box”

I was in a covid line waiting to enter tbe small Dunnes- thank fuck I’d a mask on

He kept it up till I answered him the fecker,by god we got leathered for not alone did we rob the box we stole Harry’s ginger biscuits

We got the bastard back by sending a ton of sand n gravel ( COD) to his home with instructions to ‘ back it up the driveway as far as possible so as not to inconvenience the neighbours

Got the eldest Rodger’s boy Peter(RIP) on Rossa Avenue to ring in the order - they’d the only phone in Rossa avenue and Uam Var at the time

"Monty" Motherway. Nasty "feadog fart" with the big head of mashed spuds on him.

Higgins was known to be free with his hands. There was a story (not sure if true) about him which I heard after I had gone into CSN. Anyway the story goes that one of his
students wrote in an essay "if any teacher uses corporal punishment on me my dad says may God have mercy on his soul". The story went that Higgins never lifted a hand to that student again.

 

[Corks finest]

My mate uses leave class every day 10 m early to pick up his kid( Harry’s kid) “ faigh Colman “ He used give the smallie an awful time for the few minutes he had him every day Threatening him kvrr we his dads antics in school

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Categories of teachers in CSN in my time there.
Good/likeable: Killer Kennedy, Doc, Goretti Joyce-Keane, Mick Moynihan, Paddy Meehan.
Generally ok: Youngy, Ollie Collins and Dickie Davis.
Dislikeable to say the least: Ram, Gunther and McCann.
Madman: Cotter.
Before my time there was a Maths teacher nicknamed "Billa" who was very well liked. Apparently he was tragically killed by a car when crossing a road near Cork. Anyone here remember him?

 

[Swanforthelough]

Categories of teachers in CSN in my time there.
Good/likeable: Killer Kennedy, Doc, Goretti Joyce-Keane, Mick Moynihan, Paddy Meehan.
Generally ok: Youngy, Ollie Collins and Dickie Davis.
Dislikeable to say the least: Ram, Gunther and McCann.
Madman: Cotter.
Before my time there was a Maths teacher nicknamed "Billa" who was very well liked. Apparently he was tragically killed by a car when crossing a road near Cork. Anyone here remember him?

Not sure what category to Put Leo Waters in probably mad man. Him and cotter should have been sharing a room in the Asylum.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Not sure what category to Put Leo Waters in probably mad man. Him and cotter should have been sharing a room in the Asylum.

Cotter would probably have needed solitary.
Forgot about Leo. What did he teach again? Eugene Dennis also.
Furthermore there was a pleasant young woman who taught Accountancy. Think her name was Miss McCoy and nickname was Rosie due to her red cheeks.

 

[Swanforthelough]

Forgot about Leo. What did he teach again?

Commerce Bizz Org, all that exciting stuff.imagine being a teacher and allergic to Chalk

Niall O Donovan was Accountancy he was a sound man.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Commerce Bizz Org, all that exciting stuff.imagine being a teacher and allergic to Chalk

Niall O Donovan was Accountancy he was a sound man.

"Rosie" was there before NOD who was an excellent teacher imo. Far more pleasant than Gunther!