science. If those are not pos-

sible I want to do a me-

chanic’s course”.

I asked Pat similar questions.

What will you take away from

your time in Youthreach?

“I found Youthreach very

welcoming, the staff were

willing to help with any out-

side issues I may have had,

and Youthreach allowed me

to finish what I couldn’t in

school.”

What are your plans for after

Youthreach?

“I plan to stay in Ireland for a

little bit longer, then I’m

heading home to Australia.”

Everyone here in Youthreach

would like to wish the guys all

the best in the future and

hope they come back to visit

us!

By Aimee Marsh

This month we said goodbye to

3 of our longest serving

students; Dylan Behan, Patrick

Kenny and Sean Murphy.

All 3 of the guys began their

Youthreach journey back in

2012 and are hoping to leave

with full FETAC awards.

Before they leave us forever we

thought we’d take the time to

ask them a few questions.

“Dylan you have been involved

in many football matches during

your time in Youthreach, what

is your most memorable mo-

ment?

“My most memorable moment

playing football for Youthreach

was playing against Athy and

when we beat them 13-6”.

You’re leaving very shortly,

what are your plans after

Youthreach?

“My plans are to get a job until

September and then do a

course”.

We asked Sean what his

favorite course during his time

in Youthreach was.

“My favorite course in here was

computers probably because

they are what I’m best at and

find the most fun”.

So Sean, what are your plans

after Youthreach?

“I plan to try to do a course in

cloud computing or computer

Youthreach Naas and Youthreach Blessington went head to head in a 6 - a side match in Naas Co.Kildare on the 30th of January. With fantastic football and beautiful techniques every where you looked on the day it was a very tense and exhilarating match. Many showed up to watch the match and the players played fan-tastically. In the first half Blessing-ton took the upper hand and had a lot of opportunities but could not succeed in scoring until late in the first half when it started to get go-ing. In the late part of the first half it became a very well played ,very well thought out and very tense game.

Goals from Dylan Behan, Brendan Ward and Leon O’ Brien for Naas Youthreach and goals from Shane Corcoran & Jamie Byrne by Bless-ington made it 5 all going into the second half. In the second half Naas had tip off and played confidently from the start but Blessington were not going to let them take control that easily, it was a very tense 10 min-utes until Blessington scored to make it 6-5. Naas had tip off again, they changed tactics and it worked as they equalised with a goal from Leon O’Brien. Then came Brendan Ward with a perfectly placed ball from Dylan Behan who passed out the Blessington defender and bur-

ied it in the back of the net to make it 7-6. Dylan Behan on his last match for Naas scored mo-ments later to give Naas an 8-6 victory. Thanks to the referee and the goalkeepers Jimmy Cawley from Naas and Daniel from Blessing-ton for keeping it such a tight and interesting game. By Brendan Ward

Richie McCormack takes on two Blessington

defenders.

Sean Murphy, Dylan Behan & Pat Kenny

Farewell to ‘the 3 wise men’!

W R I T E R S

I N T H I S

I S S U E

Aimee Marsh

Sean Murphy

Roisin Fitzgerald

Claire McCormack

Sean Fanning

Sean McCormack

Brendan Ward

Jimmy Cawley

Pat Higgins

Jason Keenan

Jennifer Jones

Leon O’Brien

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Co. Kildare

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Naas Victorious in Tense Game

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I N T E R E S T :

Student exit inter-

views

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Amber Review

Jennifers Fashion

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P A G E 2

Did You Know?

STUDENT REVIEW: AMBER

Recently RTE aired an Irish drama called “Amber”. It was a 4 part drama set in Dub-lin about a 14 year old girl who goes missing. Here is what some of

our students thought:

The programme is set in

Dublin. It stars Lauren

Canny as Amber. Her

father is played by David

Murray and her mother is

played by Eva Birthistle.

The storyline is about a

14 year old girl named

Amber who went missing

after sneaking off into

Dublin by herself. The

programme had a good

bases for a good storyline

however a lot of the time

certain parts in each epi-

sode felt contrived and

frankly ridiculous. There

were some parts in the

show where you could

connect with the parents

on an emotional level, but

the show didn’t seem to

linger on these moments

for too long. The main

part of the show was not

the titular Amber but was

her parents. We did not

feel like Amber had

enough screen time for

the viewer to develop a

meaningful relationship

with her. The acting in

this show was not great

as some of the characters

lacked emotional range

for example the father felt

very wooden and stiff his

facial expressions did not

change a lot and the

mother felt like she was

ripped straight from Fair

City. The Gardaí were

shown as being incompe-

tent and did not seem to

follow any real proce-

dures. It succeeded in

keeping my interest until

the end. The ending was

disappointing and felt like

a let down for all the build

up it had. Sadly it stayed

true to many cases like

this in real life.

by Sean Murphy, Roisin

Fitzgerald & Claire McCor-

mack

1. Pure bred grey-

hounds are bred for

racing.

2. Cross-breeds such

as Collie greyhounds

are used for hunting.

3. Only pure breeds can

be used for breeding.

4. Cross breeds are

usually sold off-track

such as field.

5 Facts about

Greyhounds

and Cross

Breeding:

by Jimmy

Cawley

5. A pure bred grey-

hound can be sold

for as much as

€1500.

Pure bred greyhound (track-dogs)

A good

example

of a pure

bred

Italian

grey-

hound.

Y O U T H - R E A C H - O U T

SPORTS DESK

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

Premiership Results

Feb 1st, 2nd & 3rd.

Arsenal 2-0 Crystal Palace West Brom 1-1 Liverpool Cardiff 2-1 Norwich Everton 2-1 Aston Villa Fulham 0-3 Southampton Hull 1-1 Spurs Newcastle 0-3 Sunderland Stoke 2-1 Man Utd West Ham 2-0 Swansea

Man City 0-1 Chelsea

By Jason Keenan

Crystal Palace 1 West Brom 0 Aston Villa 2 West Ham 1 Southampton 2 Stoke 1 Norwich City 1 Man City 3

By Sean Fanning

Guaranteed to ruffle a few feath-

ers, here are my weekend’s Pre-

miership predictions;

SATURDAY 8th FEB

Liverpool 2 Arsenal 2 Sunderland 1 Hull 1

Chelsea 4 Newcastle 1 Swansea City 1 Cardiff City 2 SUNDAY 9th FEB

Spurs 1 Everton 1 Man Utd 3 Fulham 1

Liverpool: Lucas Leiva's injury means Liverpool may go after Brazilian mid-fielder Romulo of Spartak Moscow Chelsea: John Terry is resigned to leaving Chelsea at the end of the sea-son, as he still hasn't been offered a new long-term contract Arsenal: Reports in Germany suggest

that Bayern Munich are interested in Tomas Rosicky, whose contract ex-pires soon Cardiff City: Manchester United's Fabio will have to be signed permanently by Cardiff as Wilfried Zaha is expected to arrive in Wales on loan, and Premier League rules state that only one player

can be on loan at any one time from a club. Everton: Everton are interested in sign-ing Kenwyne Jones from Stoke City, and the striker may cost as little as £1m Fulham: Evian have emerged as con-tenders to sign midfielder Derek Boateng Manchester City: Valencia are prepar-ing a significant bid for City's Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko Newcastle United: United are hopeful of hijacking a Liverpool move for Basel winger Mohamad Salah Swansea City: Swansea are in talks to sign Blackpool winger Tom Ince who is also courting interest from Crystal Pal-ace.

Top Story Manchester United: Juan Mata com-pletes £37.1m move to Manchester United from Chelsea Stoke City: Stoke and Fulham both want to sign Aston Villa's 29-year-old Scotland international right-back Alan Hutton Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs are inter-ested in a cut-price deal for their former striker Dimitar Berbatov, who Fulham may be willing to sell for as little as £1.5m

January

Transfer News

SEAN’S PREDICTIONS

Pat Higgins Team of the

Week

Here is my pick of this weeks players. From the keeper to the strikers, here is who I think played the best.

Leon’s Player of the Week

This week even though City

lost, I am going to chose Yaya Toure of Man City. He bosses the midfield & is the

heart of the team.

Rodriguez Mirallas

Shawcross Matic

Shaw

Marshall

Flanagan

Colback Adams

Hazard Ox-Cham

an 18 year old would wear to the

club, not what a lady wears to the

Grammys!! Especially the heels

YUCKKK MINGER! :)

And finally my best dressed man was

Jay Z simply because he looked

classy.

Blingers and Mingers Of The Month!

As it was recently the Grammys

2014 I am going to pick from that.

To start with how good Beyonce

looked at the Grammys.

For me Beyonce looked the great-

est of the females... Stun-

ning...BLINGER!!

I thought that worst dressed for

me was this lady

She could have looked a lot more

classy, this looks like something

A Note from the Coordinator:

‘’Well done to everyone who contributed

to the very first Naas Youthreach News-

letter. This is a great accomplishment

created by students that will be sent out

into the community and other Youthreach

centres in the county. I am looking for-

ward to a successful year with plenty

more activities to be written about in fu-

ture editions. Thank you for all your ef-

forts and good luck in 2014. ‘’

Jonathan McNab

To start off our ‘Get To Know Your Tutor’ series, we sat down

with Paul Hughes, our Personal Effectiveness/ Team

Building tutor, and asked him some questions about himself...

What did you want to be when you grew up?

“I wanted to be a teacher and a musician, so I guess I’m doing ok!”

Who is your favourite band/singer?

“My favourite band is The Cure , and my favourite singer is

Maynard Keenan.”

What is your favourite movie?

“Whitnail and I.”

Do you like the subject you teach and why?

“I do, because I think it’s very relevant to young people’s lives.”

Do you have any hobbies you enjoy?

“I love playing, recording and writing music, reading, going to the

gym and walking my dogs.”

What is your favourite memory of Youthreach so far?

“I once had a student who completed a FETAC level 5 in Sound

Engineering. After he graduated he told me I was one of the best

teachers he had and because it was early on in my career it gave

me a lot of confidence. By Aimee Marsh

This months art piece is a drawing of

tutor Paul Hughes by Laura Nolan.

Get To Know Your Tutor

Jennifer’s Closet Welcome to Jennifer’s fashion page where I’ll be having a look at celebrity fashion from around the globe.

CUAN’S MATHS TEASER A kilogram of pears costs 15c more than a kilogram of bananas. If 3 kg of pears and 5 kg of bananas cost €8.05 find the cost of a kg of pears. Name: ___________________________

Answer: __________________________

Cut this out & give your answer to Cuan, first correct answer out of the hat wins a prize!