Mayo TY students in brilliant stage performance

The transition year students of Sancta Maria College, Louisburgh, have won great local acclaim for their school musical production of ‘Bye Bye Birdie‘.

The light-hearted satire of the music industry is set in small-town America and is famously a direct reference to Elvis Presley getting drafted in 1957 and the stir it caused.

Photographer Michael McLaughlin was there to capture the colour and excitement of the occasion.

Ella Hopkins as Kim and Arlo Holmes as Reporter 1. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Lily O'Grady as Helen and Colm Feeney as Albert. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Murdo McLeod as Conrad. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Murdo McLeod as Conrad and flagbearer Euan Campbell. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Six members of the Chorus. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Sophia Coyne as Rosie and Colm Feeney as Albert. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Emily O'Grady as Mae Peteerson, Maeve Coyne as Gloria, Sophia Coyne as Rosie and Colm Feeney as Albert. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN
Emily O'Grady as Mae Peterson. Photo by MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN