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Two brothers? 21½ Students each? A nice period photo.

Back when things were more....gender seperate, minus the cellphones of course!

Jim Griffin Well, I have been wondering if the second brother was there because of photo day?

The De La Salle brothers wore these way into the 00's. Well they did in my school anyway. It was one of the last schools in Ireland where they continued to teach.

Jeff Gallagher Wow, even the white collary thing?

Fantstic shot

Check out the haircut, Top row, centre! Clearly he had a carefree attitude!

We've all had bad hair days, but there are some amazing (hair raising) heads in this photo...

I'm just thinking the same as Brian Mulligan, what a modern haircut. Lots of hair gel in some heads too.

J.o.t.a. Brian Mulligan And not Brylcreem just yet - it wasn't invented till 1928!!

There's a great range of ages, some promising moustaches and some mature ones. They were no inter -cert classs at any rate. Look at the banding on the hurl of the young lad to the priests left? It is almost a lethal weapon with that metal banding. I had a hurl like that once and it was positively dangerous and a threat to life, it lasted for years but! The writing on the hurl held by the man third from the left in the middle row says "Coolagown" which is a place near Fermoy in Cork and seems to have had strong Waterford connections. See www.castlelyonsgaa.com/clubHistory.php

Best to remember that it was a teacher training college and thus attracted students from all over. Funny though, most people in Waterford never use the word hurl, except when throwing things. Hurley is the preferred description, Perhaps that explains a lot?

A wonderful old photo and taken at my old school. When I went here in the 70's there were boarders from all over the country there.

Paul O'Farrell Ah, a De La Salle boy! And desmondg47 when did it stop being a teacher training college?

I believe it was in 1936 when the Minister for Education Tom Derrig (FF) refused to have it made a constituent college of the NUI.