Mason Prior and Dermot Davitt about to raise the tricolour with John Murphy and Miceál Rushe in attendance
(Seán Mac Diarmads’s mother and Mason’s grandfather’s grandmother were sisters.)
Proclamation Day 2016 was celebrated in St. Joseph’s Boys National School and Boyle Parochial School with flag raising ceremonies and information addresses to pupils and guests by the head teachers in each school.
Some of the Parochial School pupils as they assembled to sing the National Anthem