NEARLY 12o students and their families gathered at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Wednesday night for the Mercy Mounthawk Transition Year annual awards. It was a night where the students also put on a performance of song and drama and where 60 of them received the President’s Gaisce Awards, the most ever […]
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Green Flags For Tralee Schools
SCHOOLS from all over the Tralee area were presented with the prestigious Green Flag at an awards ceremony in Silver Springs Moran Hotel, Cork on Tuesday. Sixty schools from Kerry were awarded Green Flags by An Taisce at the ceremony. Nationally, 205 schools will be awarded their first Green Flag in recognition […]
VIDEO: Girls Go Without Phones For 72 Hours…And Survive!
TWO Tralee students lived through what many of their peers would consider their worst nightmare at the weekend. Leandra Nana and Nina Duggan, Transition Year students at Mercy Mounthawk took part in the experiment for Radio Kerry’s Talkabout programme to give up their phones for 72 hours. And they lived to […]
Photos: Mounthawk Students Celebrate Graduation Day
OUR Lady and St Brendan’s Church was packed on Friday afternoon as sixth year students from Mercy Mounthawk got together with their families for a special graduation ceremony. The young men and women, who started at the school back in 2008, are busy studying for the Leaving Cert, but this was a last […]
Mounthawk Students Win Environmental Award
GREEN Teens from Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk scooped the Senior Water Prize at ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards. The awards ceremony was held in the Round Room of the Mansion House, Dublin on Tuesday, May 20. In attendance were over 600 young people, Mr. Han Qunli, Director of the Division of Ecological and Earth […]
Graduation Night For Brookfield College Students
THE Brookfield College Leaving Cert class celebrated their graduation last night in the Ballyroe Heights Hotel. The school, which opened its doors in 1988, has a long history of providing education to senior level students in Tralee. They are 26th alumni to finish the school, based in Oakpark. “They’re a […]
Photos: Celebration Day For Presentation Class Of 2014
IT was a special day for over 130 Presentation girls on Friday as they celebrated their graduation after, 1,825 days in the school. Hundreds of students, parents, siblings and friends attended the ceremony in St John’s Church for a Mass followed by speeches from Principal Sheila Pontillo, Chairman of the […]
Mounthawk Students Win Top Prizes At Maths Competition
MERCY Mounthawk proved to be the big winners in Kerry Final of the Irish Junior Mathematics Competition following an hour long battle of mathematical knowledge. The Kerry Final for First Years student took place last Friday evening May 9 in the South Campus of IT Tralee. In total, four Kerry schools […]
Photos: Spa NS Pupils Communions
IT was a miserable day weather-wise, but that didn’t bother Spa National School pupils as they made their First Holy Communion on Saturday. Thirty-four youngsters from Miss O’Donoghue’s class celebrated the special day with their families and while they couldn’t take any photos outside in the wind and rain following […]
Video: CBS Pupils Get ‘Happy’
SO now the pupils of CBS Primary School are getting in on the ‘Happy’ vibe. With the huge success of the Ballybunion ‘Happy’ video on Youtube, the pupils of Michelle Culloty’s third class decided to make their own version in the school on Friday last. “They had an absolute ball […]
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