(Written by Orla O’ Keeffe) Thomastown girls celebrated All-Ireland glory on Sunday 17th of November in Santry, Dublin. The club was crowned All-Ireland U-12 Girls Cross Country Champions 2013. They won by an astonishing 44 points. If that wasn’t enough, four of the girls (Ciara, Áine, Orla and Ellen) made the county team who were second. But that still wasn’t enough for Ciara and
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Shoeboxes were piled high thanks to the effort of generous school children who have been working hard to ensure that less fortunate children have a present to open this Christmas. Primary school pupils from St. Mary’s have been handing over shoeboxes full of toys and gifts as part of Operation Christmas Child over the last few weeks. Well done to all the families who
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(Written by Ellen Molloy) Last Wednesday, November 13th, the girl’s school Gaelic football team played Gowran in a Gaelic final in Nowlan Park. In the first half Gowran were leading on a score of 1-1 to 0-0. In the second half we gained a few points back. We played our hearts out but sadly the whistle blew and Gowran had won the game. Hard
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St. Mary’s was a very spooky school today. The school, which is usually full of lovely, friendly children, was instead full of witches, vampires, zombies and ghosts. There were a few super heroes in the mix!!! Happy Halloween everyone. Enjoy the festivities…..
(Written by Aoife Coverdale) On Thursday 24th of October, team Kerry won the girl’s final in the league against team Cork. They were beaten by one goal and a point. Commiserations Cork. Well done Kerry.
Ms Power Jnr Infants 2 Ms Troy Second Class Ms. A. Stapleton Jnr Inf 3 Ms. Dowling Fifth Class Ms. Doyle First Class Ms. Hogan Fifth Class Ms. Kelly Snr Inf 1 Ms. Moore Second Class 1 Ms. O’Connor Book Rental Form Ms. O’Connor Fourth Class Ms. O’Shea First Class 2 Ms. Stapleton Jnr Inf 1 Ms. Tyrrell Third Class Mr. Delahunty Sixth Class
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The junior infants enjoyed an activity-packed, fun-filled day last Friday 21st. They participated in a sport’s day, they attended the 6th class cake sale and they had a a teddy bear’s picnic! Wow! What an exciting day!
(Written by Ben Tenneyson and James Millett) It was the day of the shield final. Everybody was excited. All the players were preparing for the match. The players walked onto the pitch and took their positions. It was Offaly V’s Wexford. Mr Reid blew the whistle and started the game. Naoise scored a lovely point. Jordan scored a great goal. In the last few
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(Written by Tony Collins and Aaron McGowan) It was a sunny day. 2nd, 3rd and 4th class had their cup final. Tipperary faced Galway. In the end Galway beat Tipp on the score of 2-13 to 1-2. Man of the Match was given to Luke Connellan. The Tipp team put up a good match. Unfortunately for Tipp Galway played a bit better on the
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(Written by Ciara Prendergast and Eva Hynes) It was Saturday the 15th of June when St Mary’s girl’s camogie team were playing St Canice’s in Nowlan Park. They were the last finalists of the day. The match started at 3 o’ clock. The starting line up were 1. Alicia Minogue, 2. Cara Gibbons , 3. Dearbhail O’ Keeffe, 4.Ciara Prendergast 5. Ava Kavanagh,
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A Memorable Day By Emily Cairns Wow!It has been a hectic week for St. Mary’s National School!Something truly amazing happened!President Higgins and his wife,Sybina came to their school! They arrived at 2 o ‘ clock on Wednesday the 29th of May 2013.the fifth class pupils held the Guard of Honour for their guests,and might I say,they did it wonderfully!President Higgins and Sybina came to
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