The Board of Management, Staff, Students, and the entire PCH Community, wish every blessing to Principal Aisling McAlpine as she departs PCH to take up a new appointment.

Aisling’s kindness, warmth, intelligence, and devotion to Catholic education will be sorely missed by us all. She has made a tremendous contribution to life in PCH during her time with us as a Deputy Principal and as our Principal.

Aisling, in the words of Seamus Heaney, has left a strong legacy behind her. Headford’s loss is Castlebar’s gain!

Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall
Confident that we have built our wall.

“Scaffolding” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996​ by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney.