THEN AND NOW: Students at Offaly school enjoy big reunion after 43 years

LSU Banagher students get back together for night of memories 43 years on.

The group held a 43rd year reunion on Saturday night, November 23, in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone.

And the years rolled away when they got back together last week to reminisce on those days. Some living in far flung corners of the world joined on Skype, others unable to attend for various reasons, while still more are no longer with us.

THEN: The 1981 Leaving Cert. class from LSU Convent, Banagher pictured here on their Debs night out. Front row (l. to r.) Con Quigley (Eyrecourt), Kathleen Camon (Cloghan), Angela Hillary (Ballinasloe), Catherine Loonam (Cloghan), Monica Curley (Ballinasloe), Carmel Oakley (Shinrone), Regina Murphy (Dublin), Margaret Neville (Tullamore), Dympna McIntyre (Lorrha), Mary Hughes (Banagher), Concepta Flannery (Shannon Harbour), Brendan Martin (Banagher). Middle row: Brid Geoghan (Clare), Aishling O’Shea (Galway), Marie Gallaghan (Tullamore), Michele Burke (Eyrecourt), Irene Wogan (Tullamore), Marie Clare O’Keeffe (Banagher), Ann Madden (Eyrecourt), Doris Corcoran (Banagher), Siobhán Glennon (Mullingar), Miriam Dolan (Banagher), Una Shiels (Eyrecourt), Pauline Condron (Dublin), Catherine Farelly (Longford), Clare Cogavin (Ballinasloe). Back: Anna Ennis (Clara), Marian Byrne (Longford), Mary McHale (Ballinasloe), Rachelle Cassidy (Dublin), Marie Brennan (Eyrecourt), Karen McGann (New Inn), Martina Coleman (Banagher), Anita Mulhare (Cloghan), Marie Carroll (Banagher), Cecily Carroll (Banagher), Pauline Murray (Dublin), Angela McGuire (Dublin), Martina Murray (Birr) RIP. Missing from Photo: Eilish Egan (Cloghan), Sean Butler (Banagher), Ann Poland (Clonfert), Mary Poland (Clonfert), Alice Camon (Cloghan), Emily Leavy (Tullamore), Ita Burke, Marian Dolan (Banagher), Martina Carroll (Cloghan).