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Carrick-on-Suir Macra Interschool Debating Contest final which took place at Carrickbeg Community Centre. The motion for the event being "The present Education System has Failed". The two schools competing in the final were Saint Nicholas and Scoil…

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St. Patrick's Day Parade (Macra Members) in Carrick-on-Suir, 1973

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Front row L-R: Miss Eileen Butler (competitions sec.), Miss Alice Carroll and Miss Mary Long, hon. sec.
Second row: Mr Noel McCormack, president, Mr. Richard Lannigan, chairman and Mr Pat O'Dwyer
Back row: Rev. Fr. Denis Hogan, CC, Mr. Michael…

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Light entertainment - Acting the goat
Mary Norris, Tom O'Hanlon, Willie Smyth, Anna Tobin

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Front: Tom Acheson, Eileen Corcoran
Back: John O'Sullivan, Tom O'Neill (coach), John Curran

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40th Anniversary dinner dance, 1987
John McDonald and Pearl O'Loughlin

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Miss Macra Float in Thurles, 1973
Dermot Tobin and John G. O'Connell

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Members of Macra na Feirme from around Ireland prior to departure by ship from Cobh to U.S.A. for 7 months work experience in 1951. Included is Edmond Connolly, Aughnabroone, Carrick-on-Suir Macra na Feirme (1926-1963) standing third from left.
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