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A TALENTED SECONDARY school choir in Tipperary has gone viral for their rendition of ‘O Holy Night’, which has generated hundreds of thousands of views and worldwide praise this week.
Students from Ursuline Secondary School, an all-girls school based in Thurles, Co Tipperary, were joined by members of local primary school Scoil Angela and a large audience for their annual carol service on Tuesday night in Thurles Cathedral.
The festive school event also featured an orchestra, as well as members of the local St Angela’s Academy of Music.
The service, an annual tradition for the school, featured an evening of traditional carol singing, with one standout performance of ‘O Holy Night’ gaining massive traction on social media.
The video has garnered over 800,000 views on TikTok in just two days, with hundreds of comments praising the performance of the school choir and lead singer and sixth year student Hannah Murphy.
Tríona Gleeson, Principal at Ursuline Secondary School, described the viral reaction as “a shock”.
“It was a phenomenal night, but we didn’t think this is going to happen out of it!” Gleeson said.
“It was mentioned a lot in the staff room today, the amount of teachers who were telling me they received messages from friends in Australia and worldwide that they had seen us was amazing.”
“Evena few past pupils were getting in touch with us, saying “I was in that school 30, 40 years ago and it was great” – it’s created lots of connections for people”.
Gleeson added that the school has a “massive tradition of music”, that goes back hundreds of years, and praised the work of the “fabulous students”.
“The acoustics of the event were very impressive, we were blessed to be in such a lovely location and have the big orchestra and huge choirs,” Gleeson said.
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How has it become acceptable in such a short time that a US President conducts business over social media?
It’s bizarre
@Mel Fitzpatrick: What can you say Mel, the Man is a legend! Make america great again!
@LibertyForIreland: A bit of advice when trolling lad, try not to make it soooooo obvious that you’re talking sh!te.
@Mel Fitzpatrick: triggered…. For what reason?
@Mel Fitzpatrick: I think it’s fantastic, You wouldn’t get that kind of insight from any other president
@Mel Fitzpatrick: I thought these two had reached a agreement some weeks ago?
@Mel Fitzpatrick: would you prefer everything is done behind closed doors?
I’m not saying either method is right or wrong, but the public seems to desire transparency, and when it is somewhat provided, people like yourself have an issue with it?
@Mushy Peas: do you think the tweets represent the reality of the situation?
I have to say this is one of the things I strongly agree with Mr. Trump on.
The entire US is essentially getting IP frauded by China and a strong message needed to be sent. The nicey nice approach that began with Nixon needed to change.
@LibertyForIreland: he’s doing what he said he would do, making America great again. Booming economy and following up with his promises, whether you like them or not. Trump 2020
What Trump said:
@LibertyForIreland: Might want to check out the inversion of the bond indices over the past Quarter, recession is imminent, Trump has undone Obama’s recovery in less than 2 years, tariffs being a major player in speeding up the pace of the recession that is due 2020/2021.
@Graham Wilson: Obama injected a trillion dollar surplus into the economy. When money is expanded in an economy the economy will grow for X period of time, and will eventually stop growing and revert to an equilibrium point, and the duration of the recession will depend on how far we strayed from that equilibrium point.
See: interest rates dropped to 1% in 2000 and then 7/8 years later we had the financial crash.
Trumps measures are trying, and relatively succeeding, in prolonging the boom. All booms bust however.
@Graham Wilson: Facks like this are way above the CD status of most of these numpties.
I am happy someone is finally challenging China for years they have been getting away with murder especially with this silk road and there association with poorly run African countries creating massive debt for these nations yet China will claim there building roads and putting infrastructure in place for these nations but it only benefits China
@Marty: Does America do anything for Africa? It gets them into debt too. America just wants to control to control the world. The Russians and the Chinese too where the Americans and British not liked. It’s been going on for years, just like Germany and France control the other EU members when the Brits leave. It’s called economic control
@Marty: the Saudi’s literally getting away with murder trump doesn’t mind
@Marty: how does it only benefit China? They’re not building massive infrastructure projects in these countries for the craic. They want to see the countries thrive so they can profit from the investment in future. It’s a lot better than the traditional US/European approach of just invading the country or slyly overthrowing the Government. As for the debt, have you ever heard of the IMF or the World Bank? Do they just give out loans for free?
China overtake the american tech industry give me a break they are years ahead of you already
@Karl Charlie: no, they aren’t actually.
@Karl Charlie: they are still years behind Japan , probably the most technically advanced country in the world. China might be big and advanced a lot since 1990 and it creates a big splash in the world. However it’s lost centuries before that still matters , Japan has been developing for centuries, it’s technology is far deeper and superior.
Down with the scamming chinese commies
And then China stop US products made in china ( iPhone ?).. and then what ?
@Dominic Leleu: trump can’t tweet maybe?
Yeakh, because the last ones worked so well
Little Dick swinging contest
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