{"id":1314,"date":"2025-09-05T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1314\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:27:07","slug":"four-sets-of-twins-start-school-in-north-leitrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1314\/","title":{"rendered":"Four sets of twins start school in north Leitrim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new school term heralded a unique first for one school in the north west as four sets of twins started in junior infants at Four Masters National School in Kinlough, Co Leitrim.<\/p>\n<p>Class teacher Mrs McGurrin says she is &#8220;having a little bit of trouble telling everybody apart&#8221; as three of the four sets are identical.<\/p>\n<p>School Principal Siobh\u00e1n Lee says they are &#8220;very excited&#8221; to welcome four sets of twins into junior infants, &#8220;the first time in the history of the school that they\u2019ve welcomed so many twins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Lee said it is wonderful for the school and the parents. &#8220;It\u2019s a happy place for the children and that\u2019s the important thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have diverse school community. We have children from all over the world which makes our school, particularly special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four sets of twins, Abigail and Emilia Glancy-Ragina, Caoimhe and Aoife McGurran, Roisin and Katie Ward and Cillian and Nate McGurrin, told RT\u00c9 News they are enjoying junior infants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We like the books, colouring, playing and learning Irish,&#8221; Roisin Ward said.<\/p>\n<p>Cillian and Nate McGurrin are nephews of the class teacher, Mrs Mc Gurrin. They told RT\u00c9 News she is Mrs McGurrin at school, but Laura at home.<\/p>\n<p>Four Masters National School in Kinlough was established in 1847 and it is one of the biggest primary schools in Co Leitrim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new school term heralded a unique first for one school in the north west as four sets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}