Category Archives: School News

Best of luck to St Columba’s Mullinalaghta in their game on Saturday. The nation will be watching.

Our Assessments for incoming 1st years takes place on Sat Mar 2nd.
All girls will begin at 9.30 am and finish at 10.45.
All boys begin at the earlier time of 11 am and finish at 12.45pm.
All students to bring a pencil case and a set of earphones.
There is no need to be anxious about this assessment.

A reminder to book bus transport on Bus Eireann website by April 28th 2019.
Late applicants are not guaranteed seats.

Cnoc Mhuire Child Safeguarding

Friday Feb 15th is National Go Orange Day. the school is looking great with so much orange bunting up. The committee have organised a number of external speakers to address the student body. The day will begin with games in the Sports Hall at 8.30 am hosted by Mr Nally or a walk led by Ms McElvaney. 3rd years can relax after their mocks with a workshop from the Samaritans. A whole school event will take place from 12.15- 1.15pm […]

Well done to our 3 groups that are safely through to the Regional Finals. as always, Ms Hetherton did an outstanding job on mentoring and tutoring all the outfits. The standard is extremely high and we are delighted we have 3 outfit through. This is no reflection on the outfits that didn’t get though. Be sure to keep voting daily. Lines now open and you can vote once every 24 hours for each outfit.

Congratulations to U 16 Boys Basketball team and their coach Mr Thornton who won all three of their matches today in the All Ireland play offs. They are now through to the All Ireland semi-finals which take place in Claregalway this Thursday on Jan 30th.

A full time position is currently available for teaching Chemistry, Science and PE. Please apply via the office or email C.V. to office@cnocmhuiregranard.ie

We welcomed Mullinalaghta, Leinster Champions and the McCabe Cup into school today. It was a great honour to have so many past pupils on the team. Mr Carroll has put together a video of the highlights from Sunday’s match and an audio clip from gift grub. The team were led into the SportsHall by current senior captains at Cnoc Mhuire, Ryan O Reilly and James Coyle. After Ms McBrien welcomed them, Mr Plunkett and Mr Swaine spoke. Both teachers […]

Congratulations to St Columba’s Mullinalaghta on winning their Leinster Final today over Kilmacud Crokes. A fantastic match with excellent football and lots of tension for the spectators. A huge achievement for all involved and Cnoc Mhuire is extremely proud of all its past pupils who shone today. Well done to the sportsmanship that was displayed on the pitch and to Shane Mulligan on his eloquent speech.

Thanks to the Coffee Palace, Granard for hosting our French coffee morning on Monday Nov 12th last. We would especially like to thank Sonia, a native french speaker who took the orders from the students and chatted with them in French. The coffee, tea, hot chocolate and pastry were délicieux. The students relaxed downstairs in the beautiful surroundings . A great morning was had by all.