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Local schoolgirl on TV3 tonight
01.09.09
by Simon McGeady, Inishowen Independent
RASHENY National School pupil Aileen Doherty
features in the TV3 documentary Modern Ireland, My
First Holy Communion, which airs tonight (Tuesday)
at 8pm.
Aileen made her First Holy Communion at Ballyliffin
Oratory on the 9th of May this year and a TV crew
followed her and two children from other parts of
the country as they prepared for and made their
Communion. Aileen’s cousins Seosamh McDaid,
Drumfries and Diarmuid McDaid, Illies, also made
their Communion on the same day and they too make an
appearance.
Speaking to the Inishowen Independent Aileen’s
mother Marie said her daughter took the presence of
the TV camera’s in her stride. |
“Aileen is normally a
shy person, but she really wanted to do this [film],
I’ve never seen her smile so much,” said Mrs Doherty
who explained that Aileen’s name was picked from her
class at Rasheney National School after TV3
contacted the school looking for someone making
their First Holly Communion to take part in the
documentary.
“The film crew called to the |
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house
at 7am on the morning of the communion and filmed
her sleeping. After she got up the crew followed us
to the hairdressers and then it was back to the
house to wait for her to get changed into her
outfit.
“Our Communion day was very early this year, at
10am. It was in the Oratory in Ballyliffin and
afterwards we all went to the Trasna House where
Aileen met up with Seasamh and Diarmuid. The trailer
for the programme on TV3 shows Aileen cutting the
cake and having a meal at the Trasna.”
The Doherty clan don’t get TV3 at home in Rasheney
and so they will have to travel to watch Aileen make
her TV debut tonight.
“We will go up to my mothers house in Drumfries to
watch it because we don’t get a reception for TV3 in
Rasheney and we don’t have Sky. They interviewed me
and my husband John and I think we are more nervous
about the TV programme than Aileen.”
Aileen’s classmates, those with Sky at any rate,
will be tuning in as well.
“On the first day of school her the kids got a note
to say that Aileen will be on TV. ”
Aileen, who is in third class, took the invitation
to attend the launch of TV3’s autumn season of
programmes a couple of weeks ago.
“It was great, we got to meet footballers, Laura
White and Eoghan Quigg from the X Factor as well as
people from Coronation Street and Emmerdale. She
really loved it.” |
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