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Wed 06 Jun 2007'We can't ask parents for money they don't have'The boys at St Francis national school for boys, just off Patrick Street in Dublin, "love coming to school"."When we come to school we get to play football and go on trips. We go to the country and go kayaking. I love PE," says Ross Carroll (9).