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EDUCATION PROFILE:Sister Bernadette Sweeney, principal of St Agnes Primary School in Crumlin and star of RTE’s Music Changes Lives, hits all the right notes in her approach to education, writes LOUISE HOLDEN

The principal of St Agnes Primary School in Crumlin was raised in a small house in Walkinstown with her parents and nine siblings. Bernadette learned music from an early age; piano, guitar, drums and violin. Music has shaped her religious and educational life since – three principalships, her travels in the US and her work with the National Children’s Choir. Bernadette was ready to move on from schools and into another field of educational leadership when she was asked by her order to take on a disadvantaged school in transition in Dublin.