What The Irish Times Made of Us... (July 2010)

Irish Times columnist Sylvia Thompson sent her daughter along to one of our weekly summer camps, and devoted a page in the newspaper to her thoughts...
 

“Children join camps because their parents have booked them in. Whether they enjoy them or not depends largely on how friendly or relaxed the camp leaders are and even more importantly, how well they get on with their fellow campers.

So, as I drove my 14-year-old daughter down the West Pier in Dún Laoghaire to the Irish National Sailing School (INSS) summer camp a few weeks ago and she announced that this was the “last camp” I was signing her up for, I thought I had pushed things too far. However, even at the end of the first day – which reputedly covers the most boring introductory stuff – she and her friend were enthusiastic beginners”

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