Haka Irish Style- Lidl Competition- Holy Family SNS Irish Haka

Holy Family SNS Irish Haka

This Haka involves the 600 children, teachers, lolypop lady etc from the 3rd to 6th classes in our school. There are a further 680 children in the Junior School.

This was filmed at Swords Castle and at the school. Swords Castle was the location where the body of Brian Boru was waked on the night after his death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014(1000 years ago). We thought this was a very suitable venue for our Haka on the eve of the impending Battle of the Stade De France, where Ireland, with our modern day Brian Boru (Brian O'Driscoll) will be playing his last game for Ireland. In our Haka we banish the French and win the 6 Nations.

We play a huge variety of sports in Holy Family and Rugby has been very popular in recent years with the school fielding a side which played against local clubs in the NE Leinster Branch area as well as various tag Blitzes for both boys and girls.

We have also run internal leagues culminating in a Festival of Rugby held at Swords Rugby Club grounds involving more than 250 boys and girls and their parents in an area which is virgin territory for the game in Ireland.