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One of a series of Garda permits, allowing the team to
collect on various segments of the route to Athlone.

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Fr Dermot Murray’s letters are a rich source of the
concerns of a headmaster over eight busy years – the
minutiae of dress and lockers and rules about
homework; changes in timetable and the provision of
soup at lunchtimes; the organisation of Sports Day;
student behaviour at parties; and above all, the
preservation of the Jesuit vision of education.
Included among the smaller details: the felling of the
Lombardy poplars on the avenue in 1981.

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