Category: Principal’s Blog

Córfhéile etc.

Well done to all our boys from rang a haon who participated in the Córfhéile festival in the National Basketball arena yesterday. Many thanks too to the teachers who accompanied them- Ms. Haverty, Ms....

Arrangements

I have just been made aware that there is confusion among the parental ranks about the various excursions which are to take place this week- TOMORROW, all boys are off to the National Concert...

An tseachtain amach rómhainn

Next week promises to be as busy as last was in the School. Last week we had Darren from the Palestrina Choir in doing pre-audition screening  for this prestigious group. This after past-pupils featured in the recent...

Lá breá brothallach a bhí ann…….

THank God for the fine weather! A few news items- First Confession well done on Ms. Sórcha O’ Grady’s boys who yesterday received their second sacrament of first penance. In school, one of the...

Stanley Milgram

Before ethics in research on subjects made life very difficult, an American psychologist named Stanley Milgram carried out a famous – and judged by the standards of today infamous- set of experiments to ascertain...

Catholic Schools Week

This is Catholic Schools Week and as partners in Catholic education we are asked to reflect on the values we seek to pass on to the children in our care. some material will be...

Blian úr.

In the canúint or dialect of the Donegal Gaeltacht, the word for new is úr, which would have a generic meaning ‘fresh’. I think it is a great way to look at a new...

Na muca ciúine…….

On a day when events in Donegal and Connecticut dominate the news and the thoughts of all, it seems hope as a commodity is in very short supply. Faith in anything is being sorely...

Christmas concerts

For the last few weeks- several weeks!- the Staff have been working very hard putting the boys through their paces for the Christmas concerts. The tradition of the School staging concerts such as these goes back to...