Eileen Sheehan's story on the RTE Player

If you missed seeing the RTE 1 show featuring Eileen Sheehan last Monday, you can watch it on the RTE Player here: http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1098494
Apart from the programme being a tribute to Eileen's "courage" as author Alice Leahy put it, the programme showed Moyross in a positive light. 
As one local put it, "They had only one shot with a horse in it and every house you saw had its windows in."
Our congratulations to Eileen who told her story honestly. She also corrected Alice when she misspelt Moyross which was funny because Alice was supposed to be helping Eileen with her writing.
As Alice said, everyone is learning.

- A. Meagher

TONIGHT: MOYROSS WOMAN ON RTE 1 AT 7.30PM

BY BRENDAN MEEHAN

Tune in to RTE tonight at 7.30pm to see a Moyross native grace your television screens, for all the right reasons.

The new TV series called “A story with me in it”, will feature our very own Eileen Sheehan, who has overcome adversity to learn to read and write.

She concealed her literacy problems for years, but now she has scaled new heights to be top of the class at Corpus Christi National School.

Eileen told the Limerick Chronicle last week: “One of the tutors said to me that they were looking for people to do a documentary, and she said, ‘You’d be perfect for it."

Eileen is now a frequent reader of books and is “engrossed” in her friend Alice Taylor’s “To school through the fields.”

So don’t forget to set your reminders for tonight, and watch Eileen's life-changing story unfold.

CAPTION: Eileen Sheehan (right) with author Alice Taylor