Any Caramel Squares going??

Today in Homeec we made caramel squares atm they are still setting... :) gonna have them in like a few mins just before tennis:) .. Anyway the mixture is pretty easy to make like put the butter, flour and sugar together until they look like bread crums then with the caramel add the tinned milk (cant remember the name) add the butter and also the golden syrup. Soo after all thats done leave them to set for like 10 mins and then add the melted choco on top... YUMMY!!! :)...
I hope it tastes good :)
Last week we made cheese cake.. Mine eh well didn't kinda look great :L it looked gone off I was scared of eating it. xP
But homeec this year has been fun!!! :)

Review on Ty :)

Well.. Transition Year!! What a year! Been fun meeting new people, going on trips work experience etc etc... I could go on and on about it.

With like the start of the year to now, friendships have changed soo much!! Its like scary how much change has happened over the year and how people change and grow up.. :)

I remember how stressed people got with the mini company an how to start in up and all, soo crazy.. The the english plays.. They were AMAZING!!!!!!!! They were brill haha Z.M, C.B, F.H.D and L.M being boys :L was soo good:)

I suppose Ty kinda makes you the person you are today really, like it'll break you down, with trying to get assigments done or projects.. The kinda makes you with new friendship, like even if friendship grow and change like at least you can look back and see the friends you have now are the ones your prob gonna have till the end of school :)

I loved how the students got to know teachers more on trips and the teachers got to know us too.. :L

Reminding of that coming home from the Sci fest the group I was sitting with on the bus, we were soo hyper, but we didn't really care that they saw us like that cause like its TY let lose and have fun I suppose. :)

Thats really it I suppose..
Aoife :) xx

Sci-Fest

So tomorrow all TY's are going to the Sci-fest in tallaght.. I suppose we are all very nervous.. But Hopefully it'll be a good day.
Write up about it tomorrow :)


oh underneath is my geography project read if you want :)

Gaelic Football.

Its mainly played in Ireland, its the largest supporting sporting organisation in Ireland with up 80,000 members. Its played outside of Ireland too but not soly played with members of the Irish diaspora, its increasing in popularity internationally. Teams from London and New York compete in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

It is also one of the bases for Aussie Rules as some rules match during the each games.

Aussie Rules

Also known as Australian Football. Its a sport played by 2 teams with 22 players 18 aside and 4 on bench. The ball can be moved with any part of the body the primary way of moving the ball is kicking, handballing and running with the ball. For the people that are running with the ball the ball must bounce of the ground, throwing the ball is not allowed and players must not get caught handling the ball.

The game is a mix with Gaelic football and Rugby. It involves the same movements with the two games put together. The game is played world wide eg Ireland.

Rubgy.. New zealnd

New Zealand is top rank for worlds best ruby team. The team is well known for the haka, its performed at each international match in 1914 is was established that it was apart of the All Blacks. In 2006 it was performed in the dressing rooms prior to the match as the Welsh Rugby Union had a disagreement. Usually the Haka is played on the field before kick off.

In 2008 New Zealand played Munster, before the match 4 of Munsters New Zealanders challenged New Zealand by preforming the Haka before the All blacks have started, on the same tour the All Blacks preformed the Haka but the Wales team refused to move and ended up being a staring match between the two teams until the referee forced them to move to start the match.

Many teams have tried to have a come back after the All Blacks have preformed the haka. One year on the Lions tour Brian O'Driscoll lifted a piece of grass which represented that he will take on the offer of the fight. There are many significant moments where other teams battle it out to fight back the All blacks.

Rugby.. Ireland

Ireland:

Ireland is ranked as the top 5 best team in the world today, as New Zealand is Number one. The team is captained by the well known Brian O'Driscoll, He has Captained the team to victory by winning the 6 Nations Grand Slam in 2009 and also lead out the Lions team in 2005 in New Zealand.

He was on the Senior squad at the age of 20, and even though losing to Australia established himself as one of the rugby top outside centres. He brought Ireland to victory when he played a hat trick of tries on the French team and winning to them since 1972. Brian's popularity in Ireland grew and supporters began to wear t-shirts saying 'In BOD We Trust'. In 2002 Brian starred in Ireland's win against Australia 18-9.

After the retirement of Ireland's Captain Keith Wood, Brian brought Ireland to success getting 2nd place in the 6 Nations. Which was followed by winning the Triple Crown in 2004. Brian captained the team to victory over South Africa.

In 2009 he brought the team to victory by winning the Grand Slam after 61 years, he scored a try in every match except one. On the 15th November of that year he was named he was nominated for International Rugby Board Player of the year, but losing by one point to Richie McCraw, but after much polling done by fans and supporters he was named Player of the 2009 6 Nations Championship.

In 2010 he captained every match but the match against Wales he picked up his 100th Cap in the Millennium Stadium. Brian has played the last 3 world cups and has picked up 13 caps and 6 tries he has became the most capped player on the 26 June 2010 against Australia.

Irish and British Lions team:

On the 11 April '05 he was announced the Captain for the tour to New Zealand, prior to that tour he had been named captain for the Northern Hemisphere side for the IRB Aid Match. But had to with draw due to shoulder injury but still showed up at match side to watch the game.

In 2005 playing against the All Blacks ended up him being carried off by a stretcher in the first few minutes due to a shoulder injury after being spear tackled by two of the All Blacks after the ball had been cleared out of a ruck. He extended his arm to protect his head but dislocated his shoulder on impact.

21st April 2009 he was selected for the tour to South Africa on June 1st was captained for the Golden Lions team taking place on 3rd June. It was the first time he had played with the Lions team since his spear tackle back in '05. He was forced to with draw on the 30th June due to head injury and subsequent concussion he suffered on the second test.

Rugby.. England

Rugby began in the 19th Century when William Webb Ellis has been said that he picked up the ball and ran with it down the pitch, Although this is a tale, the Rugby World Cup trophy has been named after him. Rugby football teams the play the game at Rugby Schools, which old pupils took to university. Albert Pell a student at Cambridge has been credited as forming the first football team, during this early period different schools used different rules to play the game. Eton attempted to carry their preferred rules through to different universities.

In the early development of the Ruby football there were a production of set written laws and Rugby School in 1845, the Black heath's Clubs decision to leave the Football Association in 1863, and the formation of the Rugby Football union in 1871, the code of was originally known as ' Rugby Football', it was not until 1895 that the separation code of Rugby league came known as Rugby Union and came to be used for the game itself Supporters of both of the codes will either refer theirs to 'Rugby or 'Rugby Union' unless they are differentiation between the two.

The first Rugby international match was between England and Scotland on the 27th March 1871. By then both Ireland and Wales had representative teams and the first international competition, The Home Nations begun. In 1883 the first rugby sevens had started, which is still held annually. 5 years later two important overseas tours took place, a British Isles team visted Australia and New Zealand, with this it laid the foundation for the Irish and British Lions team.Then in 1888 New Zealand brought over a team to Britain the British spectators.

Eventually in 1905 to 1908 the southern hemisphere rugby countries had begun their first touring to the Northern Hemisphere, all the teams brought new styles, levels of fitness and tactics to the game and the critics were surprised with what they brought.

In 1905 the New Zealand Squad brought in the Haka before each match, Welsh Player Teddy Morgan sang the Wales National Anthem as a response, as Morgan began to sing the Crowd joined in, this was the first time a national anthem was sung at Rugby match.

During the wars (WW1 and WW2) international games were not being played eventually after the wars were over the games begun again.

In 1973 the first sevens match was played in Murray Field as part of the Scottish Rugby Union cenetanry celebrations and then in 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was held in Australia and New Zealand and the regular winners were New Zealand. The first World sevens tournament was held Murray field in 1993.

Rugby union was an amateur sport until the IRB declared the game 'open' in 1995 removing the restrictions of payment to players.