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The Minor Netball Team from St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook won the Newry & Mourne Minor A Schools Netball League 2010 in a final against Sacred Heart Grammar School, Newry. The St Paul’s girls won the final 22 – 9.
Team: (GS) Colleen McVeigh, (GA) Kerry Garvey, (WA) Tara Byrne, (C) Nuala McCullough, (WD) Sarah McCone, (GD) Dervla Wright (Captain), (GK) Anna Carr. Substitutes: (GA) Serena McVerry, (WD) Niamh O’Hara, (GS) Chloe Morgan, (C) Beth McLoughlin.
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Ten pupils from St Colman’s College joined pupils from several other schools across Northern Ireland at the Edu Incentive e-skills week launch of the Play Learn Win website (www.playlearnwin.com) at Stormont this week.
The visitors were treated to a tour of Stormont where they took part in a mock debate and used the electronic voting system which our MLA’s use when passing laws, as well as seeing the TV broadcasting systems of the BBC, ITV and RTE within Stormont. The purpose of the visit was to promote STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) among our pupils in order to meet the future demands of a world economy. All pupils in Northern Ireland are welcome to sign-up at www.playlearnwin.com and take part in the fun activities hosted there. Prizes such as iPod Nano’s and Nintendo DSi’s can be won throughout March and into April and prize winners may get their own invitation to visit Stormont for the awards ceremony.
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St Colman’s College 2010 All Ireland Schools Cross Country Champions
What a momentous day for St Colman’s College Newry on Saturday at Cork’s Institute of Technology sports grounds at Bishopstown in Cork. It was a double celebration for the college as Andrew Monaghan also took the individual gold ahead of the much fancied Sean Tobin of High School Clonmel with his twin brother Patrick finishing fourth.
All the top schools athletes from all over Ireland had converged at Cork IT for the 54th running of these prestigious championships. With no rain in the area for the past 5 weeks and not a hill in sight it was anything but a typical cross country course. It was absolutely pancake flat and the going was extremely fast, well suited to the Monaghan twins but not really favourable to the rest of the St Colman’s team of Conor Gribben Thomas Mulholland James O’Keefe Conal Gough and Ryan Johnston all of whom coped well in the muck when winning the Ulster Title at Mallusk 10 day previously.
The start was a very quick affair with Finn Corrigan of St Michael’s Enniskillen prominent at the front , the pace never really settled but soon enough the Monaghan twins made their way to the front of the group along with the Leinster champion Steven Attride and race favourite Sean Tobin the Munster Champion.
The rest of the St Colman’s team were spread between 30th and 50th in the 200 plus field keeping an eye on the team from Douglas Community College Cork who were seen as the main rivals for the team prize. Midway through the second of two laps Patrick Monaghan increased the tempo and Andrew went with him and soon a 15 second gap opened up on the rest of the field. Andrew then took up the challenge and pushed on ahead gaining a 30 yard advantage on his twin brother. Sean Tobin and Steven Attride now realising that this was the key break in the race started to give chase behind the two St. Colman’s boys.
Meanwhile in the pack Conor Gribben and Thomas Mulholland were establishing good positions, now vital as Douglas Communuty College were packing very well with 3 of their scoring four within 4 places of each other. Meanwhile up front Sean Tobin had caught and passed Patrick and was making a bold move to get onto the heels of Andrew, however Andrew stayed relaxed and pushed on harder and try as he might he could not make up deficit and Andrew went on to a clear win with a margin of 15 seconds to spare. Unfortunately for Patrick a stumble near the finish cost him the individual bronze as Steven Attride took full advantage to claim 3 rd spot. The team race was now at a crucial stage and Conor Gribben , Thomas Mulholland who were now making up the scoring four, dug deep , found new reserves over the final 1k and finished 36th and 50th respectively and ensured a fantastic win for St Colman’s College.
The performance of the Monaghan twins up front was crucial, as the College only had 5 points from its first two finishers ( lowest score wins) Conor Gribben and Thomas Mulholland, James O’Keefe, Conal Gough , and Ryan Johnstone also split up the scoring team from Douglas which had a hugely significant bearing on the destination of the team prize. The College also picked up the Brother Clarke Memorial Shield, awarded to the school with the best team score. A superb day for St Colman’s College.
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Scholarship for Trumpet Student Stephen Murphy, an S4 student at st. Colman’s has been offered a scholarship to study Trumpet at the RNCM in Manchester following a successful audition in October. He will commence his study at the music college in October 2010, where he will embark on a four year BMUS course.
While attending the college he will receive individual tuition from one of their many trumpet professors. This top class teaching is one of a kind and Stephen will have enormous opportunities to advance his playing abilities and widen his musical experience.
The RNCM has a number of different ensembles that range from Big Band to Symphonic orchestra. The college is renowned for its brass studies and has links with a number of professional brass bands including their resident band “The Black Dyke Band.” Stephen is looking forward to commencing his study at the RNCM and the experiences it will give him.
Congratulations to Stephen and we wish him every success. Yet another success story for our music department under the excellent guidance of Miss Sinead Frame, Head of Music and Mr Mark Doran Music Teacher.
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The annual awards ceremony for the ‘Community Safety Youth Competition’ was held on Tuesday 2nd March in Bellinis. Each student designed and created a story board based on topics. There were over 800 entries from Newry & Mourne and and 7 students from Newry High School were selected.
They were scored on creativity, the impact of the message in the story and the ability for the storyboard to be adapted to a short film. All the students and their parents were invited to the awards ceremony and were presented with their prizes by Mr Julian Simmons from UTV.
The finalists were: Diana Marks Hannah Kennedy Shannon Hunter Zoe Lowry Lina Janavicivte Lucy Bell Rebecca Dodds
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Southern Regional College and Southern Area Health and Social Care Trust are working in partnership to provide training to health care workers. SRC is delivering the Technical Certificate in Health and Social Care to 56 health care workers at present across the region and this training will continue with further students when the first group completes the programme.
Fifteen health care workers are working towards their qualification at Southern Regional College’s Newry Campus and recently met with Joanne Wilson (NVQ assessor within the Trust), Justin Edwards (Director of Curriculum and Student Services, SRC), Maggie Grant (Head of School Early Years and Health Care, SRC), Mairead McGarvey (NVQ coordinator, SRC) and Anna Shortt (Deputy Head of School Early Years and Health Care, SRC).
This is a great achievement for the employees from the Trust and they will continue their learning pathway by completing an NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care within the next few months.
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Thanks to all Junior pupils who attended ‘St Colman’s Got Talent’ on Wednesday 24th March. The event was staged to coincide with Trócaire Day and was a great success. £250 was raised with £50 being paid out as prize money.
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The overall winner, judged by the SVP members in S4, was Niall O’Hagan (J1) who displayed a great singing voice and indeed great composure on stage in front of hundreds of his peers.
In second place was Michael Mc Cartan and Miceal Mullin (both J2) who played the tin whistle. It was the boys’ second year in a row competing in the event and should be praised for their ‘trad’ ability.
In third place was the novelty act of Neill Jones who got the crowd pumping. Neill skipped, which in itself would be no big deal, but he did it whilst on a pogo stick, class!!
Ms Hardy’s J1 got proceedings underway with a rendition of ‘Da Do Run Run.’ The lads were dressed up in multi colours and dramatised the song, which was in Irish of course, with some great acting and well prepared props. Thanks to Ms Hardy for organising this part of the show, it really added to the event. Seamus Brady (J1) then played the fiddle for the packed house and was fantastic. He is obviously putting in big hours practicing.
After overall winner Niall O’Hagan performed, Bart Thiede (J2) played a tune on the keyboard, and like last year was a great crowd pleaser. Jordan Mackey (J1) then sang ‘The Climb’ made famous lately by Joe Mc Elderry. It takes some guts to stand up in front of so many people and sing, especially as a first year. David Boyle (J3) then followed Jordan and did a recitation of a poem he penned himself. Tiarnan Mc Gabhann (J2) and Liam Mc Greevy (J3) juggled for the audience and provided a few laughs.
Miceal Cunningham (J1) played the recorder very well and Matthew Larkin (J2) was excellent on the keyboard as well. William Oliver (J1) did a David Copperfield like Magic act and was excellent as well as Conor Barry who played the banjo with aplomb. Sean Fallon (J1) did Scór proud with a recitation which roused the crowd.
It was a great occasion and Co-ordinator Mr Rónán Mc Mahon made special mention of the SVP members in S4 who did the bulk of the work in preparing for the event. He also thanked the Music Department who provided the equipment and Ms Boyle and Ms Campbell who helped out on the day.
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Southern Regional College, Newry Campus hosted their annual hairdressing competition for all NVQ Level 3 full time and day release hairdressing students as part of their qualification.
A packed audience viewed and sampled the three different categories in the competition: Commercial Day Style, Ladies Evening Style and Avant Garde.
The judges on the day who had the very hard task of selecting the category winners were Stephen McCusker from Hair by Stephen International, Meave O’Healey Harte, Producer and Editor of the Irish Hairdresser International Magazine, Helen Reavey, past student and international competition winner, and Karen McArdle, previous Irish Business Woman of the Year from Chaplins, Dundalk.
For another year, the level of creativity in the competition exceeded expectation and all the lecturers involved expressed their thanks to students, families and salons for all the hard work and dedication that was needed to make the day such a success.
Winners by category:
Commercial Day Style
1st Colette Fitzpatrick 2nd Yvonne McGreevy 3rd Louise Milligan
Ladies Evening Style 1st Ciara Bell 2nd Colette Fitzpatrick 3rd Jovita Riderzeviciute
Avant Garde 1st Colette Fitzpatrick 2nd Ciara Bell 3rd Grainne Hughes
Overall Winner of the three competitions – Colette Fitzpatrick
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St Colman’s convincingly qualified for their 9th Hogan Final with a 2-15 to 1-08 victory over the Connacht champions at a sunny if breezy Pearse Park Longford last Saturday. The College will now attempt to annex the coveted All Ireland Colleges’ Hogan Cup for the 7th time on Saturday April 10th at Croke Park where the team will face Munster standard- bearers St Brendan’s College Killarney.
Playing with wind advantage in the first half the Newry team was first to settle with points from Chris Clarke, Colin Stevenson and Caolan Mooney in the opening five minutes. Yet St Gerald’s looked bigger and stronger in many positions with centre-half Cillian O’Connor posing a serious threat every time he gained possession and it was O’Connor who supplied the pass for corner forward David Stenson to register St Gerald’s first score. However the Newry forward line was drawing frees from a robust St Gerald’s defence which allowed Mooney and Jerome Johnston to add further points while Donal O’Hare added a third after a nice inter-passing movement.
St Gerald’s replied with points from Conor O’Shea and O’Connor (2) while St Colman’s were forced to reshuffle their defence with the loss of Shane McGreevy to a very heavy tackle form Castlebar’s towering midfielder Danny Kirby. Saval’s Eamon Magee replaced McGreevy. Niall McParland was playing a captain’s role at midfield and his promptings led to the first decisive score of the game as Caolan Mooney rounded the Castlebar keeper and goaled in the 23rd minute. Mooney was to add a further 2 points before half-time while Donal O’Hare also contributed a good point to negative O’Connor’s free for St Gerald’s just before half time.
Half time score: St Colman’s 1-09; St Gerald’s 0-05
St Gerald’s decided at half time to adopt the long high ball tactic into the St Colman’s goalmouth but some inspired fielding especially by Niall Donnelly restricted St Gerald’s to one pointed free from O’Connor in the opening 20 minutes of the second half. Meanwhile the slicker movement of the St Colman’s attack led to 3 points in the first 10 minutes from Mooney (2) and Stevenson. St Gerald’s introduced several substitutes and threatened the St Colman’s goal for a long 10 minute period but it was Colman’s who broke the stalemate with well taken points from Jerome Johnston and Niall McParland. Then, with less than 8 minutes left St Gerald’s got the break they needed; another long high ball broke loose in the Colman’s rearguard and St Gerald’s substitute Niall O’Malley bagged a good goal. Spurred on by this, the Connacht men laid siege to the St Colman’s goalmouth and it took magnificent defending from Donnelly and Lively to restrict the westerners to an O’Shea point. St Colman’s countered with the introduction of talisman Ross McGarry and the speedy Shay McCartan. McGarry certainly made an impact: a classy point from the left in the 25th minute was followed by an unstoppable shot to the net 2 minutes later and St Colman’s knew for certain they were in the Hogan Final again. O’Connor did contribute one more pointed free for the Connacht men but St Colman’s were deserving and decisive winners on a scoreline of St Colman’s College Newry 2-15: St Gerald’s College Castlebar 1-08
Scorers: St Colman’s : C Mooney 1-06 (03f); R McGarry 1-01; J Johnston 0-02; D O’Hare 0-02; C Stevenson 0-02; C Clarke 0-01 and N McParland 0-01 St Gerald’s : C O’Connor 0-05 (04f); N O’Malley 1-0; C O’Shea 0-02 and D Stenson 0-01
Final Result: St Colman’s College Newry 2-15 St Gerald’s College Castlebar 1-08
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