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CHILDREN from Lurga National School in Beagh on the Clare-Galway border will make their national television debut this Sunday evening. Interviews with four of the pupils will be broadcast on School Around the Corner on RTE One at 6.30pm. The school was contacted early last year and informed that it had been selected to audition for the new series of School Around the Corner. All pupils from junior infants to third class were interviewed on March 21, 2013. According to staff, both children and crew enjoyed the experience. The school was later informed that four pupils had been selected to represent Lurga on the programme. Doireann Veale, Oisín Glynn, Macauley Brennan and James Scanlon, all junior and senior-infant pupils at the time, travelled to Dublin just over a year ago, accompanied by their families and a bus of supporters from the school and all over Beagh parish, for filming. The new series is presented by Ray D’Arcy, who interviewed Doireann, …
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