If you felt a disturbance in the force on Saturday May the Fourth 2024, this may have been caused by the large number of Jedis and Siths who gathered at St Catherine’s National School in Rush to celebrate Star Wars Day in what is thought to be the first such event in Fingal County Council.

Over seventy attendees, both young and old, were treated to a Jedi Master Class, lightsabre training and the opportunity to destroy the Death Star and attack an AT-AT Walker. During the party, children and adults alike were treated to a surprise, if maybe unwelcome, appearance by Darth Vader. After a tense stand-off, several of the brave Jedi apprentices engaged in a lightsabre fight with Lord Vader who then retreated to search for the plans to rebuild the Death Star. Master Yoda was also on hand to provide wise words to the young apprentices and Jedi moves were demonstrated by Rey Skywalker, who Star Wars fans will know from the 2015 movie The Force Awakens and 2017’s The Last Jedi.

After the Jedi master class and lightsabre training, the apprentices travelled in the Millennium Falcon to an intergalactic disco featuring a Jedi versus Sith dance-off and partied with members of the Rebel Alliance and The Empire’s Sith Lords.

The force was strong at St Catherine’s on May 4th and after the party, one parent said: “My daughter loved it. Especially loved the lightsabres. Having never watched Star Wars, she’s now a fan!”