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A lip dub featuring more than 600 students and staff from a Belfast Irish language school has been dedicated to a popular teacher who passed away before seeing the final video.

Students from West Belfast’s Colaiste Feirste spent a day and a half filming the dub to two Irish songs, produced by NOS, an online Irish language culture magazine.

Teacher Beici Mhic Crabhagain (Nic Riada), a popular Irish teacher at the school, died from cancer in February and is remembered at the end of the clip.

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Drama teacher Suzanne Waring told Belfast Live : “NOS got in touch with the school about doing a lip dub in Irish.

“We had a couple of meetings and the principal decided that it would be a good thing for bringing everybody together.

“It’s a great advertisement for the school. We’re constantly advertising the good results that the school has but you rarely get the opportunity to get to show the spirit and the heart that’s in the school.”

The songs are Leath ina Dhiaidh a hOcht by Kila and Ar Scath a Cheile by Seo Linn.

Suzanne added: “The most difficult pressure was trying to squeeze it all in without taking too much time from the timetables.

“Everybody came together - anybody who didn’t want a main part was happy to be a part of the big bit in the hall.

“Everybody that’s seen it has been really impressed with the end product - it’s a really positive thing to lift everyone’s spirits.”