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Interesting Crown Woods alumnus

iainment
iainment Posts: 8,082
in Not Sports Related
Eoin Ó Broin modernising Sinn Fein TD.

Article in the Irish Sunday Independent today all about him. Was at Crown Woods in the 80s apparently. Sounds like a path maker for Sinn Fein as it goes forward.

Anyone here know him?
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  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,226
    i was at crown woods 82 - 89 - never heard of him but school was so big you could quite easily not know a lot of people who weren't in your year 
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Wiki says he was privately educated at Blackrock College before Uni of East London and Queens Uni Belfast. No mention of the esteemed Crown Woods. If he did go there, it might have been as 'Ian Brown' to make spelling his name easier.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,121
    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/as-schoolboy-sinn-feins-eoin-o-broin-found-himself-following-the-troubles-in-northern-ireland-and-trying-to-work-out-why-there-was-so-much-division-39977666.html

    It was the mid-1980s when he took an interest in politics while attending Crown Woods Comprehensive in London after realising "the world we lived in wasn't fair". He found himself following the Troubles in Northern Ireland and trying to work out why there was so much division.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,082
    The Sunday Independent quotes him saying he was there mid 80s. 
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,082
    guinnessaddick said:
    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/as-schoolboy-sinn-feins-eoin-o-broin-found-himself-following-the-troubles-in-northern-ireland-and-trying-to-work-out-why-there-was-so-much-division-39977666.html

    It was the mid-1980s when he took an interest in politics while attending Crown Woods Comprehensive in London after realising "the world we lived in wasn't fair". He found himself following the Troubles in Northern Ireland and trying to work out why there was so much division.
    Thanks for the link - the Sindo article was behind a paywall.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,151
    Cardinal Sin said:
    Wiki says he was privately educated at Blackrock College before Uni of East London and Queens Uni Belfast. No mention of the esteemed Crown Woods. If he did go there, it might have been as 'Ian Brown' to make spelling his name easier.
    Ian Brown from the Stone Roses went to Crown Woods ! Impressive fact from Cardinal Sin 
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,973
    I guess he wasn’t in The Lodge
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,973
    Never heard of him btw, I was there 81-87
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    Jude Law was at CW briefly.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,151
    ' Redrobo said:
    Jude Law was at CW briefly.
    I thought he went to Kidbrooke Girls

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  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    _MrDick said:
    ' Redrobo said:
    Jude Law was at CW briefly.
    I thought he went to Kidbrooke Girls
    I thought we all did!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,287
    Redrobo said:
    _MrDick said:
    ' Redrobo said:
    Jude Law was at CW briefly.
    I thought he went to Kidbrooke Girls
    I thought we all did!
    I married one.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    Covered End said:
    Redrobo said:
    _MrDick said:
    ' Redrobo said:
    Jude Law was at CW briefly.
    I thought he went to Kidbrooke Girls
    I thought we all did!
    I married one.
    Sorry to hear that 😉
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343

    Could have been worse, could have been Eltham Green!
  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,848
    I went to Crown Woods !
    We were the first intake to a brand new building, had to spend the first term at Haimo road school Eltham if I remember.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    Addictedoldgit said:
    I went to Crown Woods !
    We were the first intake to a brand new building, had to spend the first term at Haimo road school Eltham if I remember.
    I was in the last entry that made the school full for the first time.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,767
    My grandad taught there. I think he was a head of year and taught economics. Would have been in the 70’s. Mr Williams.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    DaveMehmet said:
    My grandad taught there. I think he was a head of year and taught economics. Would have been in the 70’s. Mr Williams.
    That’s right, make us all feel very very old. 
    What was his first name? (It was a comprehensive).
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,767
    Redrobo said:
    DaveMehmet said:
    My grandad taught there. I think he was a head of year and taught economics. Would have been in the 70’s. Mr Williams.
    That’s right, make us all feel very very old. 
    What was his first name? (It was a comprehensive).
    Ronald
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,838
    Redrobo said:

    Could have been worse, could have been Eltham Green!


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  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,226
    Redrobo said:
    _MrDick said:
    ' Redrobo said:
    Jude Law was at CW briefly.
    I thought he went to Kidbrooke Girls
    I thought we all did!
    he used to go out with my mates wife back then - no relevance to this topic really but.... David Whyte Whyte Whyte was in my year at crown woods 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 8,226
    Redrobo said:

    Could have been worse, could have been Eltham Green!
    my brother went there - he drew the short straw !!!
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    Westwood secondary schoolboy, loved the school football matches v CW always a bit feisty. 
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    ŴDOUCHER said:
    Redrobo said:
    _MrDick said:
    ' Redrobo said:
    Jude Law was at CW briefly.
    I thought he went to Kidbrooke Girls
    I thought we all did!
    he used to go out with my mates wife back then - no relevance to this topic really but.... David Whyte Whyte Whyte was in my year at crown woods 
    What a bastard. What did your mate say? 🙂

    Ritchie Bowman was in my year.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Daarrzzetbum said:
    Westwood secondary schoolboy, loved the school football matches v CW always a bit feisty. 
    As were the games against Elsa Road in the 70's
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    SuedeAdidas said:
    Redrobo said:

    Could have been worse, could have been Eltham Green!

    Never stood a chance with Eltham Hill just up the road. 

    Looooved the ladies at that school - and the French teacher!
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    DaveMehmet said:
    Redrobo said:
    DaveMehmet said:
    My grandad taught there. I think he was a head of year and taught economics. Would have been in the 70’s. Mr Williams.
    That’s right, make us all feel very very old. 
    What was his first name? (It was a comprehensive).
    Ronald
    He would have been head of one of the six house’s. Does not ring a bell but I left in 1974. Davies was the Headmaster and was my economics teacher.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,838
    DOUCHER said:
    Redrobo said:

    Could have been worse, could have been Eltham Green!
    my brother went there - he drew the short straw !!!
    Never......Eltham Green was great !
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,343
    SuedeAdidas said:
    DOUCHER said:
    Redrobo said:

    Could have been worse, could have been Eltham Green!
    my brother went there - he drew the short straw !!!
    Never......Eltham Green was great !
    Was that a Monday?
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,709
    my wife went there

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