Neil was the youngest of four brothers who attended the College from Raheny following in the footsteps of Redmond '41, Patrick '43 and Michael '44. He left us for UCD and didn't take long to make his mark for the 1947 Chronicle reported:

Sean Moran, Dublin, 1935-38 and Neil Holloway, Killester, 1942-45, were members of the Students' Representative Council U.C.D., for the session, 1946-47.

The 1959 Chronicle then finds Paddy as a medic in London. Redmond a civil engineer in Ireland with CIE and Michael and Neil also both civil engineers but in Canada. There Neil remained and successfully so for the Globe & Mail reports: