This article is from page 33 of the 2008-05-20 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 33 JPG
THE oldest resident in the Drum- geely area of Shannon was the toast of the local primary school last week. Louis Quinlivan was chosen by the students and staff at St Sen- an’s National School to raise their green flag, much to the delight of everybody.
The school had the unique honour of obtaining its fifth green flag from An Taisce following an intensive ef-
fort to do their bit for the environ- ment. Mr Quinlivan was one of the original residents of Corrib Drive and over the years has played a key role in the tidy towns committee in the town. He and his wife Margaret are well-known in their local area.
According to school principal Sally O’Neull, it was appropriate that Mr Quinlivan would raise the flag.
“The last time we invited Eanna Ni Lamhna to the school and this time we decided to keep it local,” said Ms
O’ Neill.
The flag was won as a result of ef- forts from all 102 pupils at the school, under the guidance of green schools co-ordinator Margaret Murphy.
“It’s not just the green flag. It is linked up with everything that’s go- ing on here,” said Ms O’Neill.
For each flag a different theme prevails and this year’s theme was focused on reducing our carbon footprint. The themes of the previ- ous four green flags were also part
of this year’s campaign – ‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ was the theme for the first flag; “Reduce, reclaim’ was the second flag’s theme; ‘Energy – save a little, it means a lot’ was the theme for the third flag while the school won its fourth flag two years ago on the theme, ‘Water is light, protect it’.