Glowing tributes to a pivotal figure at school [www.corkman.ie]
- Published: 14 July 2011
GLOWING tributes have been paid to the principal of the Holy Family School at St Joseph's Foundation Charleville, Ms Sheila O'Keeffe, who is due to retire shortly after 18 years in that position and a total of 33 years in the teaching profession, at a retirement function at the school.
A native of Boherbue, County Cork, Ms O'Keeffe began her teaching career at Clonakilty National School before moving to the CBS Primary School, in Midleton, from where she came to the Holy Family School in Charleville in 1978 when the school was in the old community centre in the former Charleville CBS at Main Street.
Since then Ms O'Keeffe has been a pivotal figure in the development of the school in its first move to their new premises at Baker's Road, Charleville, and in their latest move to their state of the art building on the campus of St Joseph's Foundation in 2008. This fact was referred to in the address by chairman of the Board of Management, Dr Martin O'Donnell, at the function to mark her retirement.
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