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Irish Independent
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Galway soprano wins two singing awards at national Feis Ceoil
Aimee Banks, from Moycullen in Co Galway, picked up the Percy Whitehead Cup and Thomas Moore Cup on June 11 after coming first in both vocal competitions. A graduate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Ms Banks has been competing in the Feis Ceoil since 2014. The young singer has won a full scholarship for her postgraduate studies in the Royal Academy of Music in London, which begins in September. Ms Banks could still claim more silverware this weekend as she prepares to compete in several further singing competitions. The Feis Ceoil competitions are being held in Purcell House and The Chapel on the All Hallows campus in Drumcondra, Dublin this month. Feis Ceoil has recently completed a re-structuring process ahead of a new development phase for the organisation. Organisers hope the re-structuring will build on its position as Ireland's largest classical music competition. A selection of the competitors from this year's Feis Ceoil will be showcased at a special Gala Concert in the National Concert Hall on Monday, June 23 at 7.30pm.
New York Times
29-03-2025
- General
- New York Times
Their Catholic School Went Broke. They Found Another. It Went Broke Too.
The rumors were already circulating at All Hallows High School in the South Bronx when Mona Agbeko, a junior, opened the dreaded email. Her mother had picked her up at school that day and they were almost at their home in the Bronx when Mona read aloud the news that hit like a recurring nightmare. Her school was closing down. Again. Less than a year earlier, Mona and her friend Bridget Mulligan were sophomores at St. Barnabas, a Catholic girls' school in the Bronx. When the school abruptly informed them that it was closing after 100 years, All Hallows, a boys' school, broke 115 years of tradition and made room for the girls of St. Barnabas. But in late January, just as the girls' second term was about to end, the pitiless ax fell once more. All Hallows, which opened in 1909 with a mission to educate the poor, announced that it will close in June, another inner-city Catholic school fallen victim to financial distress. 'I couldn't believe it,' Mona said. 'Again? We're not even six months into the school year. I'm baffled.' After a campaign this winter to raise $2.5 million fell short by $400,000, the Christian Brothers announced that All Hallows would close at the end of the school year. Credit... Courtney D. Garvin for The New York Times Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
