SCHOOLS

IT WAS a very important day for 16 students of the Down Syndrome Kerry – MOTE/Latch On postgraduate course who graduated on Friday at the IT Tralee. There were smiles aplenty also from family members and tutors who gave their time and worked with the students over the course of the year. […]

CBS pupils left the books in the classroom and enjoyed a day of exercising and fun at the Clounalour school Uniforms were replaced by  tracksuits as all students spent the day taking part in a huge variety of sports including basketball, athletics, spikeball, yoga, tae kwon do, handball, aerobics, tennis, hurling and much […]

COLÁISTE Gleann Lí celebrated another successful year on Tuesday with its annual awards. The ceremony celebrated the school’s successes and also acknowledged the varied achievements of Coláiste Gleann Lí second level students over the past academic year. The 2015/16 year was another huge success for the growing school which has seen enrolments double […]

A GROUP of Presentation Secondary School students came second in a national competition recently and won €3,000 for their school. The girls took part in the AIB Build a Bank Challenge which offers transition and 5th year students a chance to run their own School Bank. Joe Shannon, Manager of […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School sixth year students celebrated their graduation on Friday. The weather may have been awful, but it didn’t spoil the day for the many students and their families who attended a mass in St John’s  Church. Later there was a reception in the school hall where students no doubt reflected on […]

ST BRENDAN’S NS in Blennerville is in the running to win a national garden competition where the winner’s story of their entry will feature at the Bloom Festival in Dublin on the June Bank Holiday Weekend. In October 2015, the school agreed to take part in the pilot of “The Garden […]

HUNDREDS of people gathered at the CBS The Green gym on Thursday night for the annual Graduation Night and Awards. Staff, students and parents were present for a Mass followed by the awards ceremony and an address by Principal Anne O’Callaghan. Awards were given for sports and academia with the […]

GAELSCOIL Mhic Easmainn  are celebrating yet another win at the recent Féile Peile Gael Linn held in Béal Átha an Ghaorthaidh in the Muskerry Gaeltacht area of County Cork. In a repeat of last year’s final, the young Tralee footballers this time outscored their opponents,  a combined team from Corca Dhuibhne, Scoil […]

SPA NS were announced as the third winner of the Lee Strand Cash 4 Schools €500 draw. Mighty Mikey Milk created lots of excitement when he visited Spa NS in Tralee this week to present a cheque of €500.  Speaking at the presentation Principal Peter Lenihan said; “Everyone here in Spa NS […]

WHAT a day for  Presentation Secondary School Tralee in Dublin yesterday when they won three prizes at the Eco-Unesco Young Environmentalist Awards. Transition Year Science students at the school travelled to the Mansion House Dublin at the awards on Wednesday and Ms. Rita O’Donoghue’s group ‘If Your Dog Poops, You Scoop’ won the Senior Waste […]

THERE was a real buzz of excitement and anticipation at Spa NS as the 2016 ‘Donal Walsh Spa 6K Challenge’ was launched. This will be the third year of the event and the whole school community is busy organising another family fun day in honour of Donal, their past pupil, on […]

PUPILS from St Joseph’s National School Ballyheigue showed their movie-making skills by being named the overall prize winners in Trend Micro’s  “What’s Your Story?” competition. The 2016 Online Digital Safety Competition aims to promote and encourage conversations about being online amongst young people. The young pupils /filmakers were presented with a cheque […]

MERCY Mounthawk secondary school has been announced as a winner of Lidl’s Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) post-primary schools store competition. The school was announced as the winner for the Lidl store in Tralee, following a six-week nomination period which saw local schools battle it out to win votes from customers. Mercy Mounthawk […]

CAUSEWAY Comprehensive School held their annual Awards night in the school on May 9 and as usual it was a successful occasion. Over 400 people were in attendance, including all awards winners, their families and guests. The awards night celebrates all the dedication, hard work and commitment of the  students throughout the […]

SECONDARY students in Castleisland were collectively star-struck after meeting GAA legends Killian Young, Henry Shefflin, Liam Sheedy and Aidan Walsh at a special event at Presentation Secondary School in the town. The men, who have numerous All-Ireland and Provincial Football and Hurling Medals between them, visited the school after winning […]

MORE than 1,000 primary school pupils in Kerry today kicked off a nationwide showcase of junior entrepreneurship. In the coming weeks, over 10,000 children, aged from 9 to 11 years old, will be presenting the businesses they have created and managed through the Junior Entrepreneur Programme (JEP). JEP is the only programme […]

SCOIL Mhic Easmainn pupils showed their generosity recently to help out a great cause. Rang a cúig pupils had a used clothes and sports drive to raise funds for their school but also donated €100 of the proceeds to the Kerry Cancer Support Group. The event was held in the school and was a […]

THE proceeds from an event at Kingdom Greyhound Stadium were handed over at St Brendan’s NS in Blennerville today. Their night at the dogs raised much needed funds to provide sports equipment and library facilities for the school and it was a huge success with the community turning out in force for a great […]

A GROUP of three Mercy Mounthawk students have won first prize in a prestigious national competition. Mounthawk transition year students, Richard Bowler, Lauren O’Grady and Nessa McGarty will be awarded with the CSO John Hooper medal for statistical analysis and also bagged€1,000 for the school and €600 for themselves after the […]

MERCY Mounthawk is celebrating a fantastic two successes in the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards on Thursday in Dublin. In what was an amazing achievement for the students, the school took home the top prize in the Best Set category for its set design in the school’s production ‘Les Misérables’ and then the […]

TWO nights of great entertainment came to a close on Thursday when CBS students staged ‘A Wake In The West’ at the school. Transition Year students tread the boards for a public performance last night and there was a fantastic response from the audience who thoroughly enjoyed it. Written by  Michael J […]

POST-PRIMARY school students from schools all over Kerry took science to the next level with over 60 projects at SciFest at IT Tralee 2016 on Thursday. Of the 60 plus projects exhibited at SciFest, the top prize on the day went to Natasha Myers from Killorglin Community College for her project, […]

TWO Transition Year groups from Presentation Secondary School and two from Mercy Mounthawk have made the final of the Eco-Unesco Youth Environmental awards to be held later this month and you can vote for the projects online in a public vote. Both “If your dog poops, You Scoop” campaign and the […]

KERRY Comhairle na nÓg put on a hugely impressive and entertaining ‘Reeling in the Years 1916-2016’ Fashion Show in The Ashe Hotel last Sunday night. Around 30 teenagers took part in the show which took the audience on a time travel adventure through the decades from 1916 to 2016 with costumes, music […]

STUDENTS from Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí headed for Dublin on Wednesday to accept a flag for their promotion of Irish. The purple flag is called ‘An Gaelbhratach’ and is awarded by Coiste na Gaeilge who promote the Irish language in educational institutions around the country. The flag was earned through assessments of  Irish language […]

A GROUP representing Presentation National School is one of only seven schools in Ireland to be selected to take part in an All-Ireland songwriting competition. The seven girls will take part in ‘Song for 16’ and perform in front of hundreds of people at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on May […]

COLAISTE Gleann Lí will present its annual Art Exhibition in the college tonight (Thursday) from 7pm which will showcase magnificent work in areas such as painting and drawing, oil painting, watercolours, pastel, pencil and acrylics painting. Visitors can view over 100 exhibits ranging from landscape, still life, figurative pieces and portraits as well as […]

MOYDERWELL Mercy Primary School pupils began their performances of ‘The Lion King’ on Wednesday to great approval from audiences. There’s a cast of almost 300 students over the two days (Wednesday and Thursday) and the public can still catch performances on Thursday (11.30am and 7.30pm) at the school. The hour long musical, designed […]

  PRIMARY school pupils from Firies National School, Lyreacrompane N.S and Scoil Naomh Eirc, Kilmoyley, will take part in the Cork and Limerick regional finals of the Our World Irish Aid Awards 2016 on  May 18-19. The Our World Irish Aid Awards invited pupils across Ireland to create projects, in […]

THE Kingdom Greyhound Stadium was the venue on Saturday night for a special event for St Brendan’s NS in Blennerville. Their night at the dogs in aid of fundraising for much needed funds to provide sports equipment and library facilities for the school was a huge success with the community turning […]