Did you ever get that sinking feeling?

Planned developments for the new state of the art hockey pitch and the KHPPU Clubhouse have been put on hold indefinitely as a result of disturbing fractures appearing in the landscape surrounding the existing cricket clubhouse. Depressions in the ground were first noticed by past pupil and head grounds keeper Peter Wilson when his team had the sense they could feel undulations forming in the ground as they cut and rolled the area around the pavilion.

This week a crack appeared on the cricket outfield side of the pavilion measuring roughly 5 meters long and a few cms wide. The crack has now widened to the point that Peter can fit his arm into the crack and not touch the bottom. Peter suggested the crack could be the the result of a sink hole as the area, he estimates to be subsiding, starts approximately 20 meters to the school side of the pavilion to the crack on the cricket outfield. Why a sinkhole would form in this area is a unknown. It was mentioned that it might be the site of a donkey grave a myth that surrounded the Chapel but as Peter says it would want to have been a very big donkey.

The board of management called on civil and consulting engineers Delap and Waller based in Dublin to urgently assess the new formations.  Civil engineer, Loof Lirpa, from the company assessed the area on Friday and has proposed comprehensive ultra sonic ground scan of the site immediately. He is perplexed by the formations, saying, "It looks like symptoms of a sink hole but why it would appear in an area with no mining history and so close to long established trees is perplexing". Further detailed investigations may shed some light as to why we're having the craic.

The school has cordoned off the area.