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On Friday October 12th Michael Fennelly, Paul Murphy, Henry Sheflin, Tommy Walsh, and T.J Reid brought the Liam McCarthy Cup to Scoil Aireagail. The excitement was mounting all morning with the whole school eagerly anticipating the visit. The hurlers entered the hall filled with cheering fans in their black and amber colours. Principal Pat O’Hanlon welcomed […]

On Thursday 11th October 2012, the fifth and sixth year students visited both the Butler Gallery and The National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny. The Butler Gallery showed a selection of video works by Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck including the much acclaimed film ‘Sea of Tranquillity’. The students found the work very engaging. The […]

Many of our 6th year students travelled to the Higher Options Conference in the R.D.S. in Dublin on Wednesday 19th September. This conference provides a great opportunity to become informed about future studies and career plans. A worthwhile experience was had by all. Thanks to Ms. Dennehy, and Ms. Roche for facilitating this trip.

Scoil Aireagail           4 Grennan College       0  On the 16th of October the boys under 17 soccer team played Grennen College in their first league match in Thomastown. The Grennen lads got off to the better start even with the disadvantage of playing up the hill. Scoil Aireagail […]

On Wednesday 3rd October 25 Transition Year students went in to the Education Centre Kilkenny to the “Photography Festival for T.Y!” They took part in four different workshops on digital photography. The T.Y photographic competition 2012/2013 was launched and is open from 8th October with the closing date on 25th February. T.Y students can enter […]

Following their trip to Dáil Eireann the 3rd Year CSPE class organised a  visit from John Paul Phelan T.D on Friday 12th October.  John Paul was elected as a TD  for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency in 2011, and he answered questions from the class about his life in politics. The visit proved to be very beneficial to the […]

As part of their CSPE course, the 3rd year class visited Dáil Eireann on Thursday 11th October. This is an important practical addition to their study of CSPE and proved to be an enjoyable, as well as educational, outing. Thanks to Ms. O’Dwyer and Ms. Dunne for organising the trip.

Over the coming months, Scoil Aireagail has organised a series of talks by guest speakers which will be of interest to all parents and guardians of teenagers. The first in the series took place in the school recently when Michael Bond, a retired school Principal, educational motivator and former Offaly All-Ireland winning manager, spoke to […]

Scoil Aireagail   3-5 Wicklow              6-8 On Wednesday 10th October the Junior boys hurling team played in Carlow against a Wicklow team made up of 7 schools from Wicklow in the South Leinster Semi Final. The opening point of the game was in Wicklow’s favour but the Scoil Aireagail boys soon followed with 2 points […]