Irene Meehan, who has been a Special Educational Needs Assistant in St. Patrick's National School for seven years, retires at the end of this school year. We were lucky to be able to speak about her at our last assembly of the school year.We have been very fortunate to have Irene in our school. She is a conscientious, kind and caring person and those gifts have transferred into her work with children in our school.Irene has worked with many children during that time and has always been very helpful to her staff colleagues. She is also great fun!She will now hopefully have more time to travel and spend time with her family. We wish her the very best in the next phase of her life.