Six junior infants at St Catherine's National School, Dublin 8, tell Catherine Clearytheir impressions of this week's snow in the capital, the first some of them have ever seen
Sophie Hogan, aged four
“I’ve never seen snow. I didn’t even see it before Christmas, even when I was a baby. This is my first time. I really was excited. It was really cold and I was hoping it would be really warm snow. And I wished we could make snowballs, but there has to be a lot of snow. I would like if it was really dry snow. It would be great if the weather was sunny and snowy, but I wish it would never melt.”
Lola Cassidy, five
“I just think the snow is too cold. It looks nice, but if you went outside with no gloves then you’d get chilblains. I just wish it was kind of warmer. When I go home all my feet are soaking and I have to go and put other socks on.”
Tom Layte, four
“It’s never snowed in Ireland, I think. At Christmas we didn’t have any snow. My favourite thing would be to make snowmen, but there has to be a lot of snow. You can only make snowmen if it grows up into a big snow. Andrew made a snowman in his garden. I think that snow is very, very cold and I think it’s the coldest weather ever. We have to wear gloves and coats and scarves and trousers and shoes. I like when you can make stuff from the snow, like snowcastles. You can dig a hole and then you can build a tower on it with a shape of a castle and a square of wood for a door.”
Lyndsey Bass, four
“I’ve never seen snow before and I’ve never walked out on snow. It feels frozen. I woke up excited about the snow. I knew it was going to snow because my Mammy told me. She was excited too. I have a baby sister, Rachel, but I she didn’t understand about the snow. We went out to play with the snow. We tried to make snowballs, but couldn’t. If I had a snowball, I’d throw it at my sister Niamh.”
Ben Ryder, five
“I loved it. Daddy showed me the snow in the morning. I wanted to go out and play snowball fights, and it was so fun. I played with Daddy and we tried to get Mammy with a snowball. And Daddy did, but I didn’t. I wasn’t good enough. There was a lot of snow in Liffey Valley. We could make a snowman there. When Daddy was throwing snowballs at me I was ducking down out of the way. And then I’d say, ‘Ha ha, you missed me’.”
Shane Reid, five
“I just really loved it when I woke up. I had loads of fun building a snowman and throwing snowballs. It wasn’t what I expected it to be. It was a little bit different because it wasn’t all this soft, beautiful stuff. It was cold, wet stuff. But it was just great and I really loved it. The best thing about it was making snowmen and throwing snowballs. It’s fun when you can throw snowballs at other people. And if someone throws a snowball at you, you have to throw one back at them. I didn’t think I’d see snow this winter, so it was just great.”
