Yesterday the world celebrated the day of the patron saint of Ireland-because when it comes to it, the world loves the Irish.
Of course, being St. Patrick’s College Wellington, and being a Catholic school, the day is celebrated with vigour. The afternoon consists of the whole school walking to St. Mary of the Angels for mass, which happened to get a mention in the Dom Post today with photo supplied.
The day began early, with Joe and I waking at six in order to get to the school early for the “Big Boys Breakfast”, an annual father and son event at the school. I have been once before and thought it a great event. This time the event pulled in some big guns.
The main speaker was the Governor General, who to those not in the know, is the Queen’s official representative in New Zealand. The current man is the 19th to fill the post. He is of course a New Zealander. The other speaker was a ex-pupil who is the actor, Grant Roa, who of course has been in LOTR and “Whale Rider”.
Also, in the audience only in the role of dad was New Zealand’s finance minister and deputy Prime Minister, who did not appear pleased when he was mentioned. Of note, was that it was the GG who had the protection and not the deputy PM.
