Since March, We've been working together on this Project

We are 5th year students at Patrician Secondary School, Newbridge. We both have a passion for STEM, Linguistics and the Irish Language. When lockdown began in March and with an awful lot of time on our hands we began to discuss topics to submit to coming exhibition. Realising our mutual interests it was a natural progression to pursue Natural Language Processing.

Justin Cunningham

Enjoys STEM and problem solving. Justin is a 5th Year student at Patrician Secondary School and participated in the BT Young Scientist in 2020. He has an interest in accesibility to tools in technology and hopes the tools created by Aistrigh will help Irish developers improve their own Natural Language Processing tools, whether it's AI to Machine Translation.

Fintan Lalor

Has always had an interest and passion for both STEM and Languages. A 5th Year student at Patrician Secondary School, Fintan also attends Trinity Walton Club. He is passionate about the Irish language and hopes that Aistrigh can act as a base to aid its new role within the European Union, and to continue its revival in Ireland and in Irish communities around the world.

Patrician Secondary School, Newbridge, Co. Kildare

The Patrician Secondary School is a school where each individual pupil is made to feel that he belongs to a community which encourages him to recognise his positive potential and acquire a good self-image.

While it acknowledges the importance of academic excellence, it strives to contribute to all aspects of each pupil’s development – emotional, spiritual, social, cultural, aesthetic, creative and moral.

The school takes account of the changing social and economic conditions of our country and nurtures in each pupil those attitudes and skills which will enable him to cope. The pupil is taught to appreciate and cherish those values which will have a positive influence on his life.

While it acknowledges that all are equal in the sight of God, the Patrician Secondary School will have a special regard for the poor and less privileged – the emotionally and spiritually poor as well as the materially poor.

The school recognises the important role of parents and clergy in the development of the pupils and it welcomes them as partners in achieving what is best for all students. Above all, the school is a community where Faith and the values of the Gospel find daily expression in every activity within the school.

In the past few years the student population has grown to over 890 students and over 70 Staff. In the year 2008 the Patrician Brothers celebrated the Bicentenary of their founding by the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Daniel Delany. The Patrician Secondary School in September 2009 joined the Le Cheile: A Catholic Schools Trust.