Here is the story
written in groups by Fifth and Sixth classes in our own
school, Lumcloon N.S.
"Oisín's Big
Day Out".
As soon as the twins had made the final arrangements
for the Aces meeting, they heard a loud scream. Oisín,
the wailing express.
"Shhaaaunna! Get Oisín from his cot. I am trying
to organize the dinner," shouted John hungrily from
the kitchen. "Aaah, Dad!" begged Shauna desperately
but when John shot her a sharp glance that cut her short,
she could just whimper an agreement.
Shauna tramped up the hall to get Óisín. Just then,
the doorbell rang. It was Clíona. "Eavesdropper alert,
AGAIN!" grumbled the twins. They just managed to
get out the back door in time. Shauna had overheard their
plans to go to Kildorka. "Shauna, will you and Clíona
bring Oisín for a walk?" asked Teresa in a voice
that made the statement more of an order than a question."
"All right, come on Oisín, we're going for an adventure,"
they whispered as Shauna threw Oisín into the pram. Oisín
squealed as usual. "Stop, one more sound, and Clíona
and I will go on our own," roared Shauna as she shoved
a jam and crisp sandwich into his mouth.
The pair started discussing the new Boyzone song which
all seemed like gobbledygook to Oisín. (Although actually
Boyzone sound like that to a lot of people.) Óisin had
started whimpering "Soolie", (that's "soother"
to you and me) but when the girls went looking for it
they decided that he must have lost it further back down
the road.
The
girls ran inside and shouted at Teresa "We followed
the twins to Kildoroka and then we walked away a little
and when we turned around Oisín was gone and…."
Teresa could not make head nor tail of their squealing
and replied "Slow down - you're talking in riddles!"
Eventually the terrified admission came out. Teresa wasted
no time and in less than twenty seconds had dialed 999.They
all got into the car and at 100mph flew over the mill
road. In the mean time Óisín was happy as a mouse in a
cheese factory, following his butterfly, home unknown
to anyone. He fell asleep in the kennel with Bart. By
now, the Aces' meeting had ended and the twins were hurrying
home for tea. When they got home they were puzzled to
see no one there.
They went into the sitting room and started watching
TV.Suddenly, they heard a sound outside. The two of them
went to investigate. It was Bart barking and they were
more than surprised to find a visitor in the kennel -
Oisín! They brought him inside and put him sitting next
to the fire. 
Just then, Catríona remembered she left her schoolbag
in Kildorka. She hurried off on her bike, visions of a
soaked Busy at Math's 5 flooding her mind. When she saw
a fire engine and an ambulance, she knew something unusual
was going on. In front of her she saw a thin guard and
sprinted up to him to ask what happened.
"Dunno, apparently some child has fallen down a well
shaft - they found a soother beside it .Ocean or something
is his name. The name seemed vaguely familiar but she
couldn't think of how. Suddenly she nearly fell off her
bike as the name hit her (like a brick breaking the speed
limit!) HE MEANT ÓISIN.
She flew back to the house and stuttered as she told
Ciaran to go back and ask the Garda the burning question
"Did he mean Oisín and if so break the good news that
Oisín is safe and sound at home. "
Cíarán crossed the road going hell for leather, his
heart in his mouth. Shortly, a very out-of-breath Ciarán
arrived outside the woods. He noticed "GARDA DO NOT CROSS"
tape around the woods and a burly guard with his arms
crossed and the radio on his pocket fizzing. "Is. the.
child. Oisín. Carroll?" panted Ciarán running up to him.
" I say, youngster, this is a private matter, the family
are grieving in there, y'know" he said in a Cork/English
accent.
"Answer me- is it Oisín Carroll? ", he screamed impatiently
getting his breath back. "Yes, no need to make a song
and dance about it y'know". "Let me in there, you gotta,"
begged a bewildered brother as he tried to give the sturdy
guard a rugby tackle to get into the wood. The deafening
wail of Shauna and Clíona made its way towards them.
"Ciarán!" the girls wailed again and then started telling
the story of Oisín's Big (last?) Day Out, filling in all
the voids in Cíarán's version of the events of the day.
He stopped them when they got to the bit about him falling
down the well shaft because:
1. He couldn't bear the wailing,
2. What they had to say was untrue,
3. Catríona still hadn't recovered her Math's book.
"STOP!" ordered Cíarán" Oisín is at home safe!" so loud
that a flock of birds got scared and flew out of the tree.
Suddenly, a shout of excitement erupted as the news broke
that Oisín was safe.
Teresa didn't know whether to murder the two girls or
to hug them - but luckily for them she chose option B,
which meant that they survived to eavesdrop on the Aces
for another day!