I was there mid 50s to 1963. I just missed Mulligan’s class and had O’hara, Magee, Savage, Slattery, Burns, Snifter Gordon, Collins, but can’t remember any Sam Greer. Mulligan had his son in his class at the time and did indeed drive a Mayfair, a big boxy car. We had O’hara two years running. (what a nightmare) He was one of the sadists. I remember one year when we were getting into our teens he was laying into Woods, I think it was, when Woods’ two mates came to his rescue and had O’hara up against the wall. He turned white and just froze with terror. That made our day. Magee (Geezer) always made us laugh with his stories and his accents taking the mickey out of somebody. He drove an old Morris Minor, Lic. PZ 112, and sometimes gave us Ballymuckers a lift as he lived out Hannastown way. (We actually lived in Highfield). Slattery was indeed a sadist. He had my younger brother’s hands in welts most days. My ma would go down and lay into him with some colourful language. Gordon was pretty fair and didn’t have any ‘pet’ boys like the others. Burns taught the final year boys so wasn’t game to take them on as some of us were pretty big by then. I remember he and a female teacher, Miss McCann I seem to recall, they were a tall couple, canoodling at the back of the bus one night coming from the Forum cinema. Didn’t think a Slate Streeter would be that far out catching them at it. The headmaster’s name that I recall was Murtagh, not Murdock that people seem to think. Paddy McVeigh’s son worked with my dad in Isaac Agnew’s VW dealership. Three boys and three girls from our family went there.
