Wicklow principal retires after 46 years serving the school she attended as a child
After waddling through the doors of the historic school as a four-year-old in 1959 and attending as a pupil for nine years, Tinahely native Síofra completed her second-level education at Carnew VEC and Tullow Community School before undertaking a degree in Spanish and English at UCD.
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