Post Tagged with: "Mercy Mounthawk"

THEY’RE top of the class. NUI Galway recently presented prizes to a select group of students for coming top of their class.  The awards were made at a special ceremony which included sponsors and parents on Saturday last and were presented by NUI Galway President, Dr Jim Browne. Two Kerry students were awarded […]

A report from Tralee CBS on the Munster Under 16½ Frewen Cup Quarter-Final against Mercy Mounthawk… Tralee CBS 6-11 Mercy Mounthawk 3-12 Tralee CBS swept past Mounthawk in a humdinger of a Frewen Cup quarter-final mainly thanks to a third quarter goal glut that proved insurmountable to their neighbours. Played […]

STUDENTS from a secondary school in Tralee have been selected to participate in an athletics masterclass alongside 200 top track and field students from across the country this March. The top 10 athletics students from Mercy Secondary School in Tralee have been selected to attend the prestigious masterclass event in the […]

FIVE students of Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk walked around blindfolded yesterday to raise awareness of blindness in the school and the daily challenges people with visual impairment face. The five students – Alex Kelly, Sadbh Griffin, Mary O’Connell, Rachel O’Regan and Heidi Crean – were blindfolded for the day, guided by their helpers – […]

A PACKED crowd, great sets and superb performances are gracing Siamsa Tire these nights at an excellent production of a Shakespeare classic. Excitement was palpable backstage before the opening performance of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from the students of Mercy Mounthawk on Thursday night. But Director Tony Behan told the students to enjoy […]

STUDENTS from Mercy Mounthawk helped out a local charity and at the same time showed great entrepreneurial spirit during the Christmas season. Katie Nagle from Ballyroe along with Caherslee girls Amy O’Mahony and Jenny Fox, are Transition Years who decided to enter the Young Entrepreneurs Programme under the name JAK Christmas Cards. For their […]

IN JUST  a week, the students at Mercy Mounthawk will be ready to bring a Shakespearean classic to the stage. After months of rehearsals, ‘Romeo And Juliet’ will be performed at Siamsa Tíre on Thursday, January 26, Friday, January 27 and Saturday, January 28 at 8pm nightly. Every second year the school alternates […]

TRALEE will have on representative in the semi-finals of the Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) next month as CBS The Green beat fellow Kerry side IS Killorglin in the quarter-final this afternoon. The Tralee side won by 2-10 to 1-10 at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney. They now play Coláiste […]

THURSDAY night saw over 300 student party in Ballyroe Heights Hotel at the Mercy Mounthawk students Debs Ball. It was a fantastic night for the students, most of whom are facing into months of study ahead of the Leaving Cert so it was a chance for all of them to get together […]

IT may be Christmas, but the students of Mercy Mounthawk are already looking ahead to the new year and their upcoming production of a Shakespearean classic. TraleeToday.ie visited the school on Thursday morning where the students were rehearsing for ‘Romeo And Juliet’ which will be performed at Siamsa Tíre from […]

A report on the Kerry Schools Under 16 1/2 Dunloe Cup Final at Lewis Road, Killarney… Tralee CBS 1-15 Mercy Mounthawk 1-7 Tralee CBS are champions of Kerry, ultimately outclassing a dogged Mounthawk side following a final at Dr Crokes grounds which only came to life the final quarter. Being the […]

Students Saibh Norris and Rebecca Dennehy tell us about a special event in Mercy Mounthawk on Wednesday evening… On Wednesday night, our Youth Social Innovators group URAC (Uniting Race and Culture) organised a multicultural night, held in our school Mercy Mounthawk to unite and celebrate the differences between people within our community. […]

THE gym at Mercy Mounthawk was packed to capacity last night to see students from Mercy Mounthawk take to the catwalk for their annual fashion show . This year the secondary school’s Transition Years had a theme of ‘All Things Irish’, so the audience was greeted with the sights of rainclouds, Roses, sports outfits of […]

STUDENTS at Mercy Mounthawk are gearing up for their annual fashion show and they’re planning something special this year. The secondary school’s Transition Year event will commence Thursday, December 1 and this year’s show has a theme of ‘All Things Irish’. With it being the centenary of the 1916 rising, it seems the […]

A TEAM from CBS The Green came first in the ISTA Senior Science Quiz Kerry regional finals in IT Tralee on Thursday night. The winning team included Alan McLoughlin, Sean Cahill and Cathal Hannafin with their teacher Aine Knightly. Science pays too, as the boys won €100 euro each for […]

THREE students from Mercy Mounthawk have shown great entrepreneurial spirit to come up with a Christmas product to help raise funds for a worthy cause. Katie Nagle from Ballyroe along with Caherslee girls Amy O’Mahony and Jenny Fox, are Transition Years who decided to enter the Young Entrepreneurs Programme under the name JAK Christmas […]

MERCY Mounthawk held their annual awards reception on Saturday morning for those who obtained the highest grades in Leaving and Junior Certificate exams in 2016. Twelve students were honoured (although Leaving Cert student, Ciara Holmes, was unable to attend) at the ceremony attended by their families and some teachers. Three Leaving Cert students  Caoimhe […]

THEY have been crunching numbers in Mercy Mounthawk all week for Maths Week Ireland. Leading the national celebration of maths were the Transition Year class who developed games for them and Second Year students who were invited to join. The games focused on all around problem solving and it was […]

LAST week Mercy Mounthawk transition year students took on their teachers in an annual wheelchair basketball match that raised €165 for local club the Kingdom Wheelblasters. No mercy was shown by teachers who continued their winning streak over students in front of a big crowd in the school gymnasium. It […]

ALL next week, health will be at forefront of activities at Mercy Mounthawk for the school’s annual Health Promotion Week. A wheelchair basketball tournament that pits transition year students against teachers is the main event of the week, with proceeds from the games going to charity. The week is steered […]

SENIOR cycle students at Mercy Mounthawk got some guidance on their options for the future at an event at the school on Thursday night. A careers night was organised by the Parents’ Council and our Career guidance department. It saw 24 different speakers coming in from different fields in the local area covering […]

LAST year Mercy Mounthawk were big winners and now the Bord Gáis Energy Student Theatre Awards looking for Tralee and Kerry entrants in the prestigious competition. The organisers are calling all aspiring actors, playwrights, singers and costume designers in the county to enter in the fourth year of the highly successful awards set up […]

  HUNDREDS of Tralee teenagers began the Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams yesterday so we visited Mercy Mounthawk, Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí and Presentation secondary schools to gauge the mood of the students as they left the exam rooms. The first hurdle to leap was English Paper 1 which began yesterday morning at 9:30, […]

THERE was standing room only in Our Lady and St Brendan’s Church on Friday afternoon as sixth year students from Mercy Mounthawk celebrated a milestone event in their lives with their graduation from their schooldays. Over 200 students, family members and staff from the school were there for a Mass and […]

OVER 130 Mercy Mounthawk students celebrated the end of their year with an awards ceremony held in the school on Wednesday night. Individual awards were handed out to around 60 students with the Student of the Year awards going to Ali Feely and Liam O’Leary. Over the course of the […]

FOUR Mercy Mounthawk and two Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí students will head to the European Parliament next week as part of a group of eight Kerry teenagers attending an event there. This year the Kerry Comhairle na nÓg was invited by Sean Kelly MEP to attend the European Youth Event (EYE) which will […]

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 […]

THE new extension in Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School was officially opened on Monday. The ‘Centenary Building’ contains seven classrooms, a number of special needs rooms and these rooms wrap around a large hall which contains a stage for school performances. The €1.6 million development was officially opened by Jimmy Deenihan who, while Minister […]

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 […]