WHERE'S RICHARD?

 To continue this very popular school photo series I thought I'd check out Richard (of RBB) during his five years at St Patrick's College.

Here we see him in 1966 in class 3G (don't ask).

We next find him in 1967 (the year of change to decimal currency) He is in class 4G.

In 1968 Richard was with his mates in 5G*.

In 1969 Richard was in Lower 6 G.1 class which is a fancier way of saying "6 G" I guess.

But here's the thing. In the 1970 St Patrick's College yearbook, The Patrician, Richard cannot be found in any photographs of 6th or 7th formers and isn't listed as being absent for the photographs. What happened to him? There were rumours of course ....... French Foreign Legion, The Seminary for trainee priests, Borstal .... but I prefer this one:

Well in advance of modern day cross gender acceptance and the LGBQT movement, Richard had enrolled at St Mary's College

The person sitting in the centre (5th from the left) looks suspiciously like Richard.

Note: The two girls at left in the second row have spied something amiss. Maybe it was the Holy Ghost or the Virgin Mary coming to check out Richard.

* Not to be confused with 5G which is the 5th generation mobile network technology meant to deliver higher multi-Gbps peak data speeds, ultra low latency, more reliability, massive network capacity, increased availability, and a more uniform user experience to more users. This obviously doesn't describe those guys in 5G in 1968.