{"id":266052,"date":"2026-01-04T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266052\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:05:13","slug":"cork-pupils-were-treated-to-festive-meal-with-visit-from-special-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266052\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork pupils were treated to festive meal with visit from special guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">The pupils at Scoil Maria Assumpta in Ballyphehane had a very special morning recently, as the school treated them to a pre-Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, and a very special guest came to visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Chatting on the phone to  The Echo, six-year-old Aoibheann Dunlea said she had no news, but she did concede that a famous person had visited earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">When the reporter failed to guess who, first suggesting both the Taoiseach and New Toy Man Patrick Kielty, Aoibheann said it had been Santa.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4918466_1_articleinline_25-07.jpeg\" alt=\"Ellie Young and Aoibheann Dunlea in front of the crib during the Christmas dinner celebrations at Scoil Maria Assumpta n Ballyphehane.\" title=\"Ellie Young and Aoibheann Dunlea in front of the crib during the Christmas dinner celebrations at Scoil Maria Assumpta n Ballyphehane.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Ellie Young and Aoibheann Dunlea in front of the crib during the Christmas dinner celebrations at Scoil Maria Assumpta n Ballyphehane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">She hadn\u2019t spoken with him, she said, but he seemed nice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Aoibheann said she was hoping to get robots for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Exciting<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Ellie Young is also six and she said it have been a really exciting morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">She said Santa had been \u201cin good form\u201d and had not put anyone on his naughty list, not even the teachers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Asked what she hoped to get for Christmas, she said: \u201cA giant Labubu and a phone, and I\u2019m getting one present for one person for Christmas, for Darragh. He\u2019s my cousin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4918469_1_articleinline_25-05_1_.jpeg\" alt=\"Asha Griffin tucks into the ice cream, her favourite part of the Christmas dinner at Scoil Maria Assumpta in Ballyphehane.\" title=\"Asha Griffin tucks into the ice cream, her favourite part of the Christmas dinner at Scoil Maria Assumpta in Ballyphehane.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Asha Griffin tucks into the ice cream, her favourite part of the Christmas dinner at Scoil Maria Assumpta in Ballyphehane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Riley Carey is seven and said Santa had been entertained by the pupils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWe did a dance for him and a song as well and we were really good,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Lucy Ryan is nine and she thought Santa had been very interested in all the children in the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cHe was very happy to see all of us,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Lucy said she was looking forward to getting a Labubu and an LOL.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4918472_1_articleinline_25-16.jpeg\" alt=\"Pupils enjoy a special Christmas dinner, served up by teachers and SNAs as the school marked the festive season together.\" title=\"Pupils enjoy a special Christmas dinner, served up by teachers and SNAs as the school marked the festive season together.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Pupils enjoy a special Christmas dinner, served up by teachers and SNAs as the school marked the festive season together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Fiadh McCarthy is 10, and she said Santa had been very kind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">She said he had promised her markers for Christmas, as she is very fond of drawing and likes to draw \u201ceverything\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pupils at Scoil Maria Assumpta in Ballyphehane had a very special morning recently, as the school treated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,24920,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-266052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-schools","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115834147590869678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}