Ever since the local festival, Féile an Iúir, was established by Br. Quinlan in 1977, the Abbey has had a strong tradition of success with their entries to Scoildramaiocht.

Over the intervening years several members of the staff in the school have collaborated to produce plays in Irish of an excellent standard. Br. Beausang, Aodh 0 Murchú, Ray Spallen, Pat Mooney, Dominic Mc Caftan, Jean Mc Donald, Denise Hagan, Róisín Malone, Oonagh Byrne and Fiona Armstrong all exercised their skills and talents and the present staff have sustained and enhanced this proud tradition in 2003 with a cleanup of a total of eight awards between the local and provincial feílí.

This years entry was scripted and co-produced by Mr. Maurice Mc Kevitt, Mr. Desmond Tennyson, I Mr. Seán Gallagher and Mr. Seán Mc Clory. Entitled "An Scrúdú Béil", it is a humorous review of the whole experience of an oral examination by a visiting examiner.

There are anxieties in the staffroom and common room alike, and there is a lot of comedy generated by the grammatical blunders and the Head of Department's dishonest attempts to gain good results and keep the school high in the local league tables.

Best actor award was won by John Dougan, best moment of theatre went to Ruairí Murphy and Chris Rodgers.

The Ursula Kearns trophy for best Senior school Irish was won collectively by the cast, while they also won best entry in their section and overall premier awards at both Féile and lúir and Féile Uladh.

However, the most important success was the nomination to compete in the All-lreland finals hosted in St. Patrick's Teacher Training College Drumcondra early April.

We wish them every continued success as they represent our local and provincial tradition in Irish language drama.

Students involved include : James Ashe, Niall McCoy, Macdara O'Graham, Chris Rodgers, Cathal Cully, John Dougan, Conor 0'Neill, Damien Brady, Steven Devlin, Raymond Morgan, Aidan Deery and Seán Carroll