Snow in Athlone

Matilda Héndez is from Spain and she recently attended Our Lady’s Bower Secondary School for 8 weeks as a first year student. Here Matilda tells us a little bit about a typical day attending the school. We are in a beautiful school called Our Lady’s Bower. It is a catholic

Colcannon Colcannon was a traditional Halloween dinner. Colcannon is boiled potatoes, curly cabbage and raw onion. Coins were wrapped in baking paper and placed in the potato for the children to find and keep.   Halloween cake A traditional Halloween cake is call barnbrack, which is a fruit cake. Each