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Watch: news2day Friday, 30 January 2026 - Celebrating St Brigid

We celebrate St Brigid across Ireland with art, crafts and music. Travel back in time with a time capsule!

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This weekend marks the beginning of the celebrations around St Brigid's Day, so Florence visited St Brigid's National School in Stillorgan to learn more about the female patron saint!

Up in Donegal, students at Saint Columba's College in Stranorlar brought rushes from their farms at home into school to make their own St Brigid's crosses! Shane has the story...

A time capsule that was sealed 25 years ago has been opened at a Dublin school last night and a new generation of pupils are writing letters for a time capsule to be opened in the year 2050! Our reporter Sheila went to check it out for news2day!

There's lots more content from the show, including an archive, on the news2day website.

Watch news2day weekdays during the school term at 4.20pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.