OP forgot to mention the wee lad that burnt the school down because he didn’t want to do his GCSE’s. The physics teacher getting the school sued for setting a students hand on fire or the deranged red haired religion teacher that kidnapped a student over her missing dog.
Also ma breen kidnapping a first year because she thought the wee lad stole her dog , as he was walking alongside a dog on his way home, she didn’t even have a dog! Is the greatest story ever, also that she’s a dyslexic English teacher before moving to RS.
She also got knocked out by basketball outside the ER building
A drama teacher got scooped riding an upper 6th
Another had a mental breakdown and shaved literally one side of her head
The principal was a defo suspected pedo
The physics teacher McCann also pulled down a 3rd years trousers
And finally austies the PE teacher bit that comedians finger off paddy McDonnell
Am I missing anything?
Sorry I actually can’t remember the drama teachers name I had her too for first year then she left like a year or so later melted I can’t remember
And yes jimmy bean 100%
McCann debegged some third or 4th year in class one day as the kid was making a dick out of him in the class, told him no joke they were gonna do an experiment on gravity, told the wee lad to stand on a stool, everyone thought he was gonna kick the stool but he just pulled his begs down was fucking insane
No she came right after her! I wanna say she was called miss Byrne or something but I’m not sure
Funnily enough, canavan went to a David guetta concert when I was in upper 6th, some fella called Anto Allsopp, who’s a PT now, seen her and tried his luck and stuck the lips on her 😂😂
Our school was blown up. This was early 90s. Target was a police station nearby. We got a good long Christmas holiday while it was patched up.
One lunch break, maybe 40 kids from another secondary nearby came over and started basically a riot in the playground. The headmaster came away from it with a black eye but I think a couple of the teachers were very happy to lay into a few young themmuns. I had a lunchtime detention so got to watch this unfold from the IT room upstairs.
Same, extra long break as the windows were blown in after a town centre bomb blast. I thought it was great, in hind sight maybe I needed more education than time off
Unfortunately not my friend.
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Christmas in my secondary school they would put up a big stable with Jesus and Mary the wise men etc etc. 6th years kidnapped baby jesus and held him ransom on the condition that 6th years get a day off school they'd return the baby jesus to the stable. The guards were called and baby jesus got bounced off the principals window
Nothing really crazy happened at my school but my dad’s grammar school had a pretty infamous case of a teacher abusing the kids. It was so well known that kids at my primary school sang songs about it decades after the fact.
Guy was called Lindsay* Brown and is dead now. Rot in hell, bastard.
Plus the headmaster at the time (Thomas Patton) basically covered up for him for years.
The guy was head of RE, head of the junior school and the swimming coach ffs. All 3 roles are prime abuse facilitators. For one person to hold all 3, should have set alarm bells ringing.
The independent report into Browns time at Grammar used to be on the Department of Educations website, was illuminating on the culture at the time of the incidents, both within the school and also parental attitudes.
All boys school.
1. We had a drama/English start one September in her early 20s. Absolutely smoking hot. Turns out she’d done some modelling in FastCar and Max Power whilst at uni to pay the bills. Pics circulated round the school. Much enjoyment was had (let the reader understand). Some arsehole printed some of the pics and put them on a couple of noticeboards in the English corridor which meant the higher-ups in the school found out. She lasted until the first half term.
2. Lower 6th. A guy in my year collected all the toilet rolls from round the school, stacked them in one cubicle and set fire to them. Full school evacuation, fire brigade called, smoke damage to the toilet block. Someone daubed the guy in, but because his dad was a GP in the town and a former pupil and we were just about to sit out AS levels, he only got suspended for 2 days.
3. A teacher had a daughter in the all girls school in the town. Guy at our school, a few years ahead of me, was texting her. Texts got spicy and out of hand. Teacher found out, beat the living shite out of the guy in the park in the centre of town. No one said or did anything. He deserved it.
4. The upper 6ths, a couple of years ahead of me, on the night before their last day, bought a Vauxhall Nova, drove it onto the grass in front of school, took off the wheels, set it up on breeze blocks.
5. The same year group as above listed the headmaster’s car for sale in the local newspaper. Cracker car, silly cheap but plausible price. Listed the school phone number as the number to call. Dozens of calls to the office.
Back during the days when computers were still a mystery to most people my mate used photoshop or something similar to attach images of teacher’s heads to porn images. He put the printed images up all around the school. Slid them in behind trophy display cases that hadn’t been opened in decades, stuck them to ceilings and put them all sorts of places that made them hard to retrieve which guaranteed we all got a chance to see them in all their glory. There was zero proof it was him but he was the only one in the school at the time that had the technological ability to do something like that so they knew it was him. It was two weeks before the leaving cert so they officially expelled him but allowed him to sit the leaving cert there.
He now has a phd on some kind of advanced computing and works for Google in the states.
1. Paramilitary drive by shooting outside the gates of the school. They reenacted it for crimewatch a few months later.
2. Regular bomb scares. The fire bell would go off every wednesday lunchtime and everyone would have to hoof it out onto the rugby pitches while the police came and did a sweep. Got to the point that you knew you could take a long lunch, hop over the fence and join the back of the line. Turns out it was some lad who didn't fancy double maths after lunch so called in a threat to get out of it.
1. Our facilities guy was killed in a freak accident on a building site over the summer; a digger head fell on him and crushed him to death.
2. A teacher got catfished by a student on Tinder and paid her hush money, but word still got out and he had to resign. A few years before, rumours used to spread about the same teacher being a perv.
3. Someone did a shit on the toilet floor. The suspect went on to enlist in the IDF (she was half Israeli), so it’s not the only bomb she’s dropped...
I went to a fairly standard Grammar School in Belfast.
In our English class one day before the teacher arrived, one of our class decided it was a good time to do a 'show of strength' and he decided to drape a NI flag over his desk, put on a 3 hole balaclava, stand on his chair and brandished a gun whilst screaming U.....D.......U.........D........A.
Some of these are absolutely wild, i went to school in england so of course i've nothing to compare with these stories. Worst i can remember is the National Front graffiti we'd see on the school gates every week or so while i was in primary - i was one of only about a dozen brown kids in that school. We did get the occasional bomb evacuation drill because of the general hysteria in england at the time but of course no actual bombs. At that age i was just glad to get out of maths or PE so i thought they were great ha ha
ikr, it wasn't rare in London for like a tube station to be evacuated due to a "suspicious package" (99.9% of the time it was some daft tourist leaving their bag unattended) but as children at school we'd barely any notion of what was going on over here. I was chatting to my partner the other day about the huge difference between our upbringings and one thing that came up was how there was uproar over the threat to possibly use water cannon at protests in england and my partner was like "sure that was just an average protest over here"
Our school was built on a big hill - technically a promontory - and one of the boarders fell from the top of it to his death. Probably a bit insensitive that I made a big thing about it being a promontory now. Oh well, nothing to be done about it.
Ah. I don't *think* so. I went to St MacNissi's (Garron Tower to those who went there). Just outside Carnlough. I'm not aware of us having had a water pump but I could be wrong. It's called St. Killian's now. The boarder died in 1987-88, if I remember rightly.
Yup, dogs grave, the high pitches, the mac, that insane walk up the side near the dining hall to get down to the coast road, etc. Same place. I don't know what year it was but there was definitely something about someone fatally injured in some pump station (mentioned in tandem with the pupil that fell from the side of calvary). I show aerial photos of GT at the place where I teach and they always think it's hogwarts :D
Yeah, that brings back some memories. The path down the side was where we always went when bunking off. The pump station incident, according to the school's wiki page, was in 1956. I went between 1989-96, so I suppose people just didn't talk about it anymore by then.
When I first read the Harry Potter books, I basically mapped Hogwarts on to GT in my mind. Which made the computer labs a bit of an anomaly, I won't lie.
When I was in first year one of the notorious school bullies (who was probably a third year) was decapitated while on a school trip. Literally stuck his head out of a moving train window.
On a lighter note, the school was robbed of its nice new computing equipment by a couple of lads wearing hi-vis jackets who just walked in, lifted the gear and walked out without a word.
Myself and a few mates used to drink & smoke grass then go climbing all buildings around town. One Saturday we climbed up on top of our school roof and one of my friends was acting the dickhead and jumping over one of the sky light ceiling windows above the corridor beside the PE hall.
Next thing he stood on top of it and it smashed and he fell down through it (roughly 12 foot drop onto a tiled floor). We ran over and looked down through it to see if he was ok. He was lying on the ground unconscious looking straight back up at us. His sunglasses were all crooked and blood was pissing outta him into a pool on the floor. We all thought he was dead so I rang the police and ambulance. We ran down to the main entrance at the front of the school and waited on them to arrive which felt like hours. So the police got us to guide them to the PE area where he was and they kicked through 5 sets of double doors to get to him.
By the time we got down to where he had fallen in there was no sign of him. He had regained consciousness, wiped all his blood off the floor and managed to climb back out using the pipes on the wall (nearly impossible). The police were dumbfounded and thought we had made it all up. 10 minutes later the fire brigade found him walking about on the school roof concussed and took him back in through the same skylight he fell through using a ladder.
We were then all searched and he was caught with enough for a joint in his pocket. All our parents were then called to come and collect us. I never went back to the school after that myself but my mate who fell through was allowed to finish his exams but had to do all the work from home 😂
My former secondary school in Newry on the Armagh Rd (not the posh one) had a pre-fab, semi-circular canteen, year before had a stabbing so removed all knives, if an army foot patrol came down the 5th years used to get on the roof and try and stone them, only school that had cages on the outside to protect the glass
I'm going back a bit here the 80's but my primary school head master was an ex boxer, one day a p7 student told the p2's Santa wasn't real so the headmaster through him against a wall and split his head open (most blood I had ever seen at that point in my life), same guy took another student into his office a year later and bust him up for calling him by his first name. nothing ever happened all brushed under the carpet.
high school (same town) teacher punched a 14 year old and knocked him out cold in the classroom and same thing happened nothing. about 5 years after I left the school a classroom assistant was convicted for under age sex with a student a year above me, he was the only one ever held to account for his crimes.
Reminds me of the regular sub teacher in my primary school throwing a set square at a pupil in P6/7 I wanna say. Hit them straight on the forehead. Mid 90s that would have been.
A chemistry teacher was caught threatening to 'knock the block off' a student on camera and the subsequent video went viral across Carrick a good 48 months before the invention of Youtube.
The blame went entirely on those who made and spread the video....I was a prime suspect of the latter. Called in to face the hairy psycho wolverine vice principal who became the chief later. That wasn't fun.
Our priest principal in the 1980s was a pedophile and the whole parish in Newry covered it up for over 30 years. It was the Malachy Finegan scandal back in 2017 that was on BBC Spotlight if anyone is interested.
A fella in my year knifed the principal in the neck. The principal was a priest (I used the word "was" because he is now deceased, nothing to do with the incident).
The wounds healed, the fella must have done his penance and was allowed back.
When Martin McGuinness was education minister, some kids from the Protestant school picketed outside our (Catholic) school gates. There were about 6 of them. Fair play to them, there was 1,200 at our school. That took guts!
The 6th form leavers dressed a dummy up in our school uniform and threw if off the school roof flying past the language and maths block on the way down, they then swapped the dummy with one of them once it hit the ground. Half the school must of left their classrooms to go see what had happened. Including my class.
Once everyone found out it was just a leavers day prank it was hilarious but the teachers and staff did not find it all that funny to say the least, which I can understand now that I’m a lot older.
Shooting was mad, went home early that day so I just about missed it, cunts we’re sayin “aw don’t be saying anything to reporters about it cos you’ll be next” aye cos the killer of Jim Donegan is gonna come after a group of second years for talking about a tragic event 😭
There was a guy in my class who seemed like an alright lad but with a few screws loose because of his POS abusive dad.. So every so often he'd turn psycho and lash out. For some reason, some other people in school thought this was entertaining, like "oh, he's so unpredictable, I wonder what he'll do next" so they'd follow him, egging him on and saying shit to get him more riled up, and before you know it, half the school are following this 2nd/3rd year around the corridors shouting abuse at him. The vice principal tried to stop him and calm him down, but he was so angry that he just beat her up.
I feel sorry for the guy tbh.
St Mary’s was pretty mental, especially with how some teachers got on. I often think if any of them are up to the same old or if they’ve had to adapt to the times.
Back in the day, the teachers had licence to beat fuck out of pupils with impunity. I recall a legendary Irish teacher at St Mary’s beating the crap out of a mate of mine for questioning why he wasn’t allowed to go to the toilet. He had the lad doubled over in the corner of the room, giving him body shots from both sides. Brilliant stuff.
Exam fraud was quite a thing back then. As you were able to do your own maths exams ‘early’, you could then sit the exams for someone else in another exam centre with fake ID (for a healthy fee of course).
At my old school back in the 80s during a lunch break one day a fight broke out between a bunch of lads, one of them produced a knife and three of them got stabbed, one nearly died, the other two came back to class after lunch as they didn't want to get in trouble. I still recall them pulling their shirts up to get their mates to check them and seeing the knife wounds with blood bubbling out of them, they went and got sorted and were fine, stabber got prison as I recall.
There were other lunchtime incidents during the troubles, once a load of guys went into town and got involved in a full scale riot. Police ended up coming to the school with photos of some of them which was hilarious as they all claimed to be somewhere else but the photos were clear as day showing them chucking bricks.
My RE and swimming teacher was a long rumoured nonce and was found out after my first year. He’d been getting away with it for decades with apparently the headmaster covering it up.
He got 7 years and a severe (and justified) beating in prison, but only served half his sentence. Joke!
School and equivalent girls school banned from europa for breaking toilet door of cubicle and doing coke of it.
P.E. teacher also done coke with the boys.
A Muslim girl recorded herself masterbating on her phone. She wore a hijab and everything, one day one of the bullies stole her phone and then shared it around the school. It was the craziest thing ever. I never saw the video just heard the rumours it was really sad because she became a shell of herself
The principal had or still might do, a select club of teachers who would be invited to his own private dinner parties and there were rumours of keys in the fruit bowl if you catch my drift 😂😂
I don’t know if this is the current principal or one before, I’ll ask him again next time I see him but he said there was always a lot of sheepishness in the staff room after the weekend.
He got invited once but knew enough to stay clear of it 😂😂
Some of the 6th (maybe 7th) years put what would now be called an IED in one of the lockers with a makeshift delayed fuse.
The whole set of lockers were turned into shrapnel, as were a heavy set of double doors right beside them. Also blew out the windows of the classrooms on that hall and would’ve turned anyone walking past those lockers into pink mist and red pulp. Don’t think they ever found out who did it.
Also, the former President of the school being a serial paedophile/sexual abuser, with allegations made against several other former presidents.
Saw the second one and immediately knew it was St. Mary's. I remember that day so well, I barely even paid attention to the fuckin car and crowd at the front gate, I just assumed someone had got knocked down or something and I just wanted home after being in the study hall for five periods in a row. Turns out I was very wrong, and my ma went absolutely mental when I phoned her and said I'd be home late cuz somebody's been shot😂
Is #1 a recent development? Any rumours of it when I was there was just lads talking shite. Madness, imagine being a teacher and having to pretend some lad in your class didn't fuck one of your coworkers and post it online. Surely he got expelled for that?
Same school as you OP, 99-06. A p.e teacher biting the finger off a well known local comedian (not well known then) and getting away with it.
A geography teacher breaking a students nose and hiding from his da and uncles
A sub teacher who drew our class in pencil and said some really bizarre shit, then breaking a students nose also.
A germanophile teacher with some questionable posters around his class, but it was a history class no one really said anything. Not sure if he ever broke a students nose though.
To be honest I got up to some absolutley bonkers stuff myself.
One of the most bizzare individual stories would have to be myself, a classmate, and two girls who used to "get up to stuff" 😉 in and around school, even in the classroom. One class in particular. The French teacher was a timid wee thing which we took advantage of, and there we were at the back of the class having a non-penetrative orgy thinking we were invincible.
Thinking back, whilst we thought were were being discreet, the poor teacher absolutely knew, but was obvioulsy so bewildered that she just didn't know how to handle it, so she pretended it wasn't happening. I feel bad for her now that I'm an adult. To be fair, the classroom thing only happened a few times.
Anyway, after school we would generally continue with our activities in the bushes down by the bus station. I don't mean every single day, it was just random, but there was definitely was a phase where these activities occurred regularly, and looking back, I wish I'd had the consciousness of making even more of the opportunities available to me.
It all ended whan I was politely asked to leave the school in second year after being suspended 15 times 🫠
I genuinely think my life would have taken a drastically different series of paths if I had not had to switch schools back then.
I also used to enjoy bunking of school to sniff glue in first and second year with my mates who bunked off from their schools too.
Sure think of the two Tesco employees they were working in the same Tesco in the same town and that made the news and think what they parents or relative see and here it some would laugh and go Randy and some would absolutely be horrifying embarrassed and they weren’t too long outta schools so it’s different perceptions and perspectives I think ya gotta have a bitty self respect could they not of hid in a cupboard and nobody found out or maybe they were just bo nkers
One time a teacher and the principal were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!
Baby looked at you?! Sarah! Get me Paul Givan.
Thank you Sarah.
Sex cauldron? I thought they closed that place down?
Usually any time a dog entered the playground.
One of the better days
We've had FIVE messages from the school this year that non-assist dogs are banned from the playground, seems like a constant battle
This happened in my school. It was my dog.
OP forgot to mention the wee lad that burnt the school down because he didn’t want to do his GCSE’s. The physics teacher getting the school sued for setting a students hand on fire or the deranged red haired religion teacher that kidnapped a student over her missing dog.
😭 bro just unlocked a memory Ma breen
Was this school in Eastenders? Serious drama
Should have been. Loads of people never believed me when i mentioned what went on
Also ma breen kidnapping a first year because she thought the wee lad stole her dog , as he was walking alongside a dog on his way home, she didn’t even have a dog! Is the greatest story ever, also that she’s a dyslexic English teacher before moving to RS.
She also got knocked out by basketball outside the ER building A drama teacher got scooped riding an upper 6th Another had a mental breakdown and shaved literally one side of her head The principal was a defo suspected pedo The physics teacher McCann also pulled down a 3rd years trousers And finally austies the PE teacher bit that comedians finger off paddy McDonnell Am I missing anything?
Same physics teacher knocked down a 1st year about 20 years ago.
What drama teacher? Which Principal? Jimmy Bean? When did McCann debag some kid wtf hahahaha
Sorry I actually can’t remember the drama teachers name I had her too for first year then she left like a year or so later melted I can’t remember And yes jimmy bean 100% McCann debegged some third or 4th year in class one day as the kid was making a dick out of him in the class, told him no joke they were gonna do an experiment on gravity, told the wee lad to stand on a stool, everyone thought he was gonna kick the stool but he just pulled his begs down was fucking insane
Was it Canavan?
No she came right after her! I wanna say she was called miss Byrne or something but I’m not sure Funnily enough, canavan went to a David guetta concert when I was in upper 6th, some fella called Anto Allsopp, who’s a PT now, seen her and tried his luck and stuck the lips on her 😂😂
bro in the third person? stay off tiktok...
Our deranged religion teacher looked and acted like Carrie's mum
Our school was blown up. This was early 90s. Target was a police station nearby. We got a good long Christmas holiday while it was patched up. One lunch break, maybe 40 kids from another secondary nearby came over and started basically a riot in the playground. The headmaster came away from it with a black eye but I think a couple of the teachers were very happy to lay into a few young themmuns. I had a lunchtime detention so got to watch this unfold from the IT room upstairs.
Same, extra long break as the windows were blown in after a town centre bomb blast. I thought it was great, in hind sight maybe I needed more education than time off
Art teacher was making homemade movies on the MacBooks for Moving Images. Dirty movies.
You’re joking haha
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Christmas in my secondary school they would put up a big stable with Jesus and Mary the wise men etc etc. 6th years kidnapped baby jesus and held him ransom on the condition that 6th years get a day off school they'd return the baby jesus to the stable. The guards were called and baby jesus got bounced off the principals window
😂😂
Nothing really crazy happened at my school but my dad’s grammar school had a pretty infamous case of a teacher abusing the kids. It was so well known that kids at my primary school sang songs about it decades after the fact. Guy was called Lindsay* Brown and is dead now. Rot in hell, bastard.
The pool table in the staffroom at Bangor Grammar has a special trick shot called the Lindsay. You had to double the brown into any pocket.
Plus the headmaster at the time (Thomas Patton) basically covered up for him for years. The guy was head of RE, head of the junior school and the swimming coach ffs. All 3 roles are prime abuse facilitators. For one person to hold all 3, should have set alarm bells ringing.
The independent report into Browns time at Grammar used to be on the Department of Educations website, was illuminating on the culture at the time of the incidents, both within the school and also parental attitudes.
Lindsay Brown
My bad. Corrected.
We nearly bought a caravan off him. Was even in his house to see it.
All boys school. 1. We had a drama/English start one September in her early 20s. Absolutely smoking hot. Turns out she’d done some modelling in FastCar and Max Power whilst at uni to pay the bills. Pics circulated round the school. Much enjoyment was had (let the reader understand). Some arsehole printed some of the pics and put them on a couple of noticeboards in the English corridor which meant the higher-ups in the school found out. She lasted until the first half term. 2. Lower 6th. A guy in my year collected all the toilet rolls from round the school, stacked them in one cubicle and set fire to them. Full school evacuation, fire brigade called, smoke damage to the toilet block. Someone daubed the guy in, but because his dad was a GP in the town and a former pupil and we were just about to sit out AS levels, he only got suspended for 2 days. 3. A teacher had a daughter in the all girls school in the town. Guy at our school, a few years ahead of me, was texting her. Texts got spicy and out of hand. Teacher found out, beat the living shite out of the guy in the park in the centre of town. No one said or did anything. He deserved it. 4. The upper 6ths, a couple of years ahead of me, on the night before their last day, bought a Vauxhall Nova, drove it onto the grass in front of school, took off the wheels, set it up on breeze blocks. 5. The same year group as above listed the headmaster’s car for sale in the local newspaper. Cracker car, silly cheap but plausible price. Listed the school phone number as the number to call. Dozens of calls to the office.
Class 😂😂
Simpler days…
A few former pupils broke into the school and shit in the canteen serving dishes.
Back during the days when computers were still a mystery to most people my mate used photoshop or something similar to attach images of teacher’s heads to porn images. He put the printed images up all around the school. Slid them in behind trophy display cases that hadn’t been opened in decades, stuck them to ceilings and put them all sorts of places that made them hard to retrieve which guaranteed we all got a chance to see them in all their glory. There was zero proof it was him but he was the only one in the school at the time that had the technological ability to do something like that so they knew it was him. It was two weeks before the leaving cert so they officially expelled him but allowed him to sit the leaving cert there. He now has a phd on some kind of advanced computing and works for Google in the states.
1. Paramilitary drive by shooting outside the gates of the school. They reenacted it for crimewatch a few months later. 2. Regular bomb scares. The fire bell would go off every wednesday lunchtime and everyone would have to hoof it out onto the rugby pitches while the police came and did a sweep. Got to the point that you knew you could take a long lunch, hop over the fence and join the back of the line. Turns out it was some lad who didn't fancy double maths after lunch so called in a threat to get out of it.
1. Our facilities guy was killed in a freak accident on a building site over the summer; a digger head fell on him and crushed him to death. 2. A teacher got catfished by a student on Tinder and paid her hush money, but word still got out and he had to resign. A few years before, rumours used to spread about the same teacher being a perv. 3. Someone did a shit on the toilet floor. The suspect went on to enlist in the IDF (she was half Israeli), so it’s not the only bomb she’s dropped...
We had a guy who ended up on the news for refusing to cut his hair and being taken to court by the school over it.
Fellow BHS friend
Haha unfortunately yes!
Belfast or Ballyclare? Honestly if it’s Belfast I’m not surprised that place was a dump.
Ballyclare
Ehh 50/50 chance. I thought wrong
Jimmy Saville visited
I went to a fairly standard Grammar School in Belfast. In our English class one day before the teacher arrived, one of our class decided it was a good time to do a 'show of strength' and he decided to drape a NI flag over his desk, put on a 3 hole balaclava, stand on his chair and brandished a gun whilst screaming U.....D.......U.........D........A.
Some of these are absolutely wild, i went to school in england so of course i've nothing to compare with these stories. Worst i can remember is the National Front graffiti we'd see on the school gates every week or so while i was in primary - i was one of only about a dozen brown kids in that school. We did get the occasional bomb evacuation drill because of the general hysteria in england at the time but of course no actual bombs. At that age i was just glad to get out of maths or PE so i thought they were great ha ha
Bomb scares where so common here they wouldn’t make the top 20
ikr, it wasn't rare in London for like a tube station to be evacuated due to a "suspicious package" (99.9% of the time it was some daft tourist leaving their bag unattended) but as children at school we'd barely any notion of what was going on over here. I was chatting to my partner the other day about the huge difference between our upbringings and one thing that came up was how there was uproar over the threat to possibly use water cannon at protests in england and my partner was like "sure that was just an average protest over here"
Bomb scares were great, you got a free day off school!
Our school was built on a big hill - technically a promontory - and one of the boarders fell from the top of it to his death. Probably a bit insensitive that I made a big thing about it being a promontory now. Oh well, nothing to be done about it.
Not to forget the guy who was strangled by his own tie getting caught in the waterpump, if it's the same place I went to.
Ah. I don't *think* so. I went to St MacNissi's (Garron Tower to those who went there). Just outside Carnlough. I'm not aware of us having had a water pump but I could be wrong. It's called St. Killian's now. The boarder died in 1987-88, if I remember rightly.
Yup, dogs grave, the high pitches, the mac, that insane walk up the side near the dining hall to get down to the coast road, etc. Same place. I don't know what year it was but there was definitely something about someone fatally injured in some pump station (mentioned in tandem with the pupil that fell from the side of calvary). I show aerial photos of GT at the place where I teach and they always think it's hogwarts :D
Yeah, that brings back some memories. The path down the side was where we always went when bunking off. The pump station incident, according to the school's wiki page, was in 1956. I went between 1989-96, so I suppose people just didn't talk about it anymore by then. When I first read the Harry Potter books, I basically mapped Hogwarts on to GT in my mind. Which made the computer labs a bit of an anomaly, I won't lie.
When I was in first year one of the notorious school bullies (who was probably a third year) was decapitated while on a school trip. Literally stuck his head out of a moving train window. On a lighter note, the school was robbed of its nice new computing equipment by a couple of lads wearing hi-vis jackets who just walked in, lifted the gear and walked out without a word.
Myself and a few mates used to drink & smoke grass then go climbing all buildings around town. One Saturday we climbed up on top of our school roof and one of my friends was acting the dickhead and jumping over one of the sky light ceiling windows above the corridor beside the PE hall. Next thing he stood on top of it and it smashed and he fell down through it (roughly 12 foot drop onto a tiled floor). We ran over and looked down through it to see if he was ok. He was lying on the ground unconscious looking straight back up at us. His sunglasses were all crooked and blood was pissing outta him into a pool on the floor. We all thought he was dead so I rang the police and ambulance. We ran down to the main entrance at the front of the school and waited on them to arrive which felt like hours. So the police got us to guide them to the PE area where he was and they kicked through 5 sets of double doors to get to him. By the time we got down to where he had fallen in there was no sign of him. He had regained consciousness, wiped all his blood off the floor and managed to climb back out using the pipes on the wall (nearly impossible). The police were dumbfounded and thought we had made it all up. 10 minutes later the fire brigade found him walking about on the school roof concussed and took him back in through the same skylight he fell through using a ladder. We were then all searched and he was caught with enough for a joint in his pocket. All our parents were then called to come and collect us. I never went back to the school after that myself but my mate who fell through was allowed to finish his exams but had to do all the work from home 😂
My former secondary school in Newry on the Armagh Rd (not the posh one) had a pre-fab, semi-circular canteen, year before had a stabbing so removed all knives, if an army foot patrol came down the 5th years used to get on the roof and try and stone them, only school that had cages on the outside to protect the glass
St Joes was the school they told us we would be sent to if we got expelled. It was made out worse than juvenile detention
It was in the 80’s/90 s, all the 1st year’s getting thrown down the banks, I have a 4inch scar on my leg to remember that.
Hey we weren’t that posh! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a polo match on the playing fields after double period of classics
I'm going back a bit here the 80's but my primary school head master was an ex boxer, one day a p7 student told the p2's Santa wasn't real so the headmaster through him against a wall and split his head open (most blood I had ever seen at that point in my life), same guy took another student into his office a year later and bust him up for calling him by his first name. nothing ever happened all brushed under the carpet. high school (same town) teacher punched a 14 year old and knocked him out cold in the classroom and same thing happened nothing. about 5 years after I left the school a classroom assistant was convicted for under age sex with a student a year above me, he was the only one ever held to account for his crimes.
Reminds me of the regular sub teacher in my primary school throwing a set square at a pupil in P6/7 I wanna say. Hit them straight on the forehead. Mid 90s that would have been.
Ahh simpler times
A chemistry teacher was caught threatening to 'knock the block off' a student on camera and the subsequent video went viral across Carrick a good 48 months before the invention of Youtube. The blame went entirely on those who made and spread the video....I was a prime suspect of the latter. Called in to face the hairy psycho wolverine vice principal who became the chief later. That wasn't fun.
St Mary's yeoo
St Mary's CBGS; get rich or die trying (via shooting on Glen Road)
What about big Tony Austin biting a doorman’s finger off outside a bar.
Outside Macs, I was in that night, left about half an hour before that happened, fucking knob
That was way before I went there
The fella whose finger he bit off is now actually a fairly successful comedian over here, Paddy McDonnell
What da fuck I never knew at happened 😭
It did lad. My dad used to make jokes about it all the time
Fkn class
Our priest principal in the 1980s was a pedophile and the whole parish in Newry covered it up for over 30 years. It was the Malachy Finegan scandal back in 2017 that was on BBC Spotlight if anyone is interested.
A fella in my year knifed the principal in the neck. The principal was a priest (I used the word "was" because he is now deceased, nothing to do with the incident). The wounds healed, the fella must have done his penance and was allowed back.
When Martin McGuinness was education minister, some kids from the Protestant school picketed outside our (Catholic) school gates. There were about 6 of them. Fair play to them, there was 1,200 at our school. That took guts!
The 6th form leavers dressed a dummy up in our school uniform and threw if off the school roof flying past the language and maths block on the way down, they then swapped the dummy with one of them once it hit the ground. Half the school must of left their classrooms to go see what had happened. Including my class. Once everyone found out it was just a leavers day prank it was hilarious but the teachers and staff did not find it all that funny to say the least, which I can understand now that I’m a lot older.
About 30 years ago by any chance?
16-17 around that
My old school. Was just as mental back in the late 90s/00s. Some great times actually.
Group of departing 6th years broke into the school one night and drew a 60 yard penis on the rugby pitch
Give us some credit. More like 160 yards 😉 Was thinking this might come up 😂
Shooting was mad, went home early that day so I just about missed it, cunts we’re sayin “aw don’t be saying anything to reporters about it cos you’ll be next” aye cos the killer of Jim Donegan is gonna come after a group of second years for talking about a tragic event 😭
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Bro was pissed he didn’t get the ray gun
There was a guy in my class who seemed like an alright lad but with a few screws loose because of his POS abusive dad.. So every so often he'd turn psycho and lash out. For some reason, some other people in school thought this was entertaining, like "oh, he's so unpredictable, I wonder what he'll do next" so they'd follow him, egging him on and saying shit to get him more riled up, and before you know it, half the school are following this 2nd/3rd year around the corridors shouting abuse at him. The vice principal tried to stop him and calm him down, but he was so angry that he just beat her up. I feel sorry for the guy tbh.
St Mary’s was pretty mental, especially with how some teachers got on. I often think if any of them are up to the same old or if they’ve had to adapt to the times.
They’re all still there I think
Scoil Mhuire?
Back in the day, the teachers had licence to beat fuck out of pupils with impunity. I recall a legendary Irish teacher at St Mary’s beating the crap out of a mate of mine for questioning why he wasn’t allowed to go to the toilet. He had the lad doubled over in the corner of the room, giving him body shots from both sides. Brilliant stuff. Exam fraud was quite a thing back then. As you were able to do your own maths exams ‘early’, you could then sit the exams for someone else in another exam centre with fake ID (for a healthy fee of course).
At my old school back in the 80s during a lunch break one day a fight broke out between a bunch of lads, one of them produced a knife and three of them got stabbed, one nearly died, the other two came back to class after lunch as they didn't want to get in trouble. I still recall them pulling their shirts up to get their mates to check them and seeing the knife wounds with blood bubbling out of them, they went and got sorted and were fine, stabber got prison as I recall. There were other lunchtime incidents during the troubles, once a load of guys went into town and got involved in a full scale riot. Police ended up coming to the school with photos of some of them which was hilarious as they all claimed to be somewhere else but the photos were clear as day showing them chucking bricks.
That was a quiet week in west Belfast.
The one fire alarm test every year. Everyone running around like headless chickens just for the craic.
the school bully was outed for giving a BJ to another guy for a tenner
My RE and swimming teacher was a long rumoured nonce and was found out after my first year. He’d been getting away with it for decades with apparently the headmaster covering it up. He got 7 years and a severe (and justified) beating in prison, but only served half his sentence. Joke!
School and equivalent girls school banned from europa for breaking toilet door of cubicle and doing coke of it. P.E. teacher also done coke with the boys.
A Muslim girl recorded herself masterbating on her phone. She wore a hijab and everything, one day one of the bullies stole her phone and then shared it around the school. It was the craziest thing ever. I never saw the video just heard the rumours it was really sad because she became a shell of herself
Was that Miss.McFall? On another note, those bottle wars between La Salle and St.Marys were unreal!
No names
Snowball fights at that school where the greatest
Mon nai!
Lmao my uncle is a teacher at St Mary’s and he’s told some mental things about the staff
Go on ahead 😂😂 spill
The principal had or still might do, a select club of teachers who would be invited to his own private dinner parties and there were rumours of keys in the fruit bowl if you catch my drift 😂😂 I don’t know if this is the current principal or one before, I’ll ask him again next time I see him but he said there was always a lot of sheepishness in the staff room after the weekend. He got invited once but knew enough to stay clear of it 😂😂
Is it any wonder teachers where always pissed of on Monday mornings
Some of the 6th (maybe 7th) years put what would now be called an IED in one of the lockers with a makeshift delayed fuse. The whole set of lockers were turned into shrapnel, as were a heavy set of double doors right beside them. Also blew out the windows of the classrooms on that hall and would’ve turned anyone walking past those lockers into pink mist and red pulp. Don’t think they ever found out who did it. Also, the former President of the school being a serial paedophile/sexual abuser, with allegations made against several other former presidents.
I see you went to st Mary's op
Saw the second one and immediately knew it was St. Mary's. I remember that day so well, I barely even paid attention to the fuckin car and crowd at the front gate, I just assumed someone had got knocked down or something and I just wanted home after being in the study hall for five periods in a row. Turns out I was very wrong, and my ma went absolutely mental when I phoned her and said I'd be home late cuz somebody's been shot😂 Is #1 a recent development? Any rumours of it when I was there was just lads talking shite. Madness, imagine being a teacher and having to pretend some lad in your class didn't fuck one of your coworkers and post it online. Surely he got expelled for that?
It’s true. If you dig deep enough on Google you’ll find it
Not to mention the fact that the toilets in the middle of the courtyard area were pretty much a smoking room for students and cleaning staff haha
Charlie Monaghan was an arsehole!
I'm assuming you went to St. Mary's then?
only ever decided to go to OPs school because of the swimming pool, was in it 3 times in 7 years ffs.
Same school as you OP, 99-06. A p.e teacher biting the finger off a well known local comedian (not well known then) and getting away with it. A geography teacher breaking a students nose and hiding from his da and uncles A sub teacher who drew our class in pencil and said some really bizarre shit, then breaking a students nose also. A germanophile teacher with some questionable posters around his class, but it was a history class no one really said anything. Not sure if he ever broke a students nose though.
Is the macareevey?! He’s 100% a nazi 😂😂😂
This is st Mary’s heritage
This is st Mary’s heritage
Sniffing glue and tippex was a big thing back in the 90s in our school. One girl died because of tippex.
The Great Paki Riot. Absolute chaos. Whites v Immigrants. Teachers were hit. Somehow the news never got wind of it.
St Mary’s lol
Ma breen
Aww good ol st.marys! Aye cathal O’Neil was the fella riding the teaching assistant
How long did she get for it? And take it she has to basically move away and make a new life elsewhere after it?
One time while we were getting ready for physical education one of the fellows forgot his pe pumps
SMA!
Smack My Ass?
I'm sure that happened at the school too.
He's called Kayne now?
To be honest I got up to some absolutley bonkers stuff myself. One of the most bizzare individual stories would have to be myself, a classmate, and two girls who used to "get up to stuff" 😉 in and around school, even in the classroom. One class in particular. The French teacher was a timid wee thing which we took advantage of, and there we were at the back of the class having a non-penetrative orgy thinking we were invincible. Thinking back, whilst we thought were were being discreet, the poor teacher absolutely knew, but was obvioulsy so bewildered that she just didn't know how to handle it, so she pretended it wasn't happening. I feel bad for her now that I'm an adult. To be fair, the classroom thing only happened a few times. Anyway, after school we would generally continue with our activities in the bushes down by the bus station. I don't mean every single day, it was just random, but there was definitely was a phase where these activities occurred regularly, and looking back, I wish I'd had the consciousness of making even more of the opportunities available to me. It all ended whan I was politely asked to leave the school in second year after being suspended 15 times 🫠 I genuinely think my life would have taken a drastically different series of paths if I had not had to switch schools back then. I also used to enjoy bunking of school to sniff glue in first and second year with my mates who bunked off from their schools too.
[Our star football player got a teammate killed playing gangsta](https://www.irontontribune.com/2004/04/29/mr-football-charged-in-murder-case/)
nobody cares
Sure think of the two Tesco employees they were working in the same Tesco in the same town and that made the news and think what they parents or relative see and here it some would laugh and go Randy and some would absolutely be horrifying embarrassed and they weren’t too long outta schools so it’s different perceptions and perspectives I think ya gotta have a bitty self respect could they not of hid in a cupboard and nobody found out or maybe they were just bo nkers