The name of the magazine is taken from the first newspaper ever printed in Dublin city. I volunteered to be editor. I'd been interested since third year - interested in reading editorials in various publications - and I wanted to know what it would feel like to be an editor. I edited the third edition of our school magazine. We did it as part of our mini-company class in Transition Year.

It did take a long time to put together; we started in January and finished in May. We met every Wednesday for those five months and had a long meeting, then we met on Mondays and Fridays for two smaller meetings.

We decided the theme should focus on President McAleese's building-bridges idea. We had an interview with her left over from the previous edition of the magazine, so I decided it would be interesting to have an interview with Ronnie Flanagan of the RUC and have the two perspectives together.

We knew it would be hard to get the interview, but I wrote off requesting it - and waited and waited. Eventually, near the time the magazine was ready, we got an appointment. I'd held the space that long just in case, so I was really pleased.

I went up to Belfast on the train with the photographer. We were both very nervous - nervous about being on our own in Belfast and nervous about how the interview would go.

We were going in to interview one of the most powerful people in the North. We had to be very diplomatic about how we phrased our questions - more so than if we were professional journalists, because he could easily just have decided to throw us out at any minute. He was very honest with his answers, but I didn't ask him anything too difficult.

It was also my job as editor to decide which of the articles submitted should go in. I wanted to put in an article about British Airways because the company had made a big donation to the magazine; we included an interview with Tim O'Neill, who is a calligrapher, because he was involved in designing the BA logo, so it fit right in.

Another interview subject, Maurice Pratt, is a past pupil of the school; and I included the interview with the FAI president, Pat Quigley, for the sports section.

The content of the magazine consists of those six interviews basically - but I did it that way because they were good interviews.

Before it went to the printer I had a look at all the copy myself and all together it was 84 pages long. We needed 23. Editing down was quite difficult, I had to cut out stuff which was very interesting, but it had to be done.

Our teacher, Mr Connell, gave me a hand all the way through.

I'd say the best part about doing it was seeing the finished product, the end of five months' work. The worst part was when the first run came back from the printer with a terrible error on the front page - Ronnie Flanagan's name was spelled incorrectly.

I was very depressed, I knew I had to send him a copy and I couldn't send up a magazine which spelled his name wrong. I went mental! It took two weeks to sort it out in the end. But by then all the others were on holidays and we had to get copies to all sorts of people - advertisers and so on. I had to come back into school myself (along with Mr Connell) and send them out.

A few of us would be interested in careers in journalism now; some of the others, who were involved with the advertising for the magazine, might go into that area. I'd like to go to college after school and get into the writing end of things on a newspaper. I found the most interesting part was doing the interview and writing it up.

In an interview with Jackie Bourke

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