The All-Ireland U21 captain, Stephen Coen, visited our school with the cup last week. The trophy for the winning team is the Clarke Cup which is named in honour of former Kildare Secretary and Treasurer Tim Clarke.  Mayo won the 2016 All Ireland U-21 Final by scoring five goals to defeat Cork.

Stephen Coen with the lads holding the cup.

Stephen Coen with the girls holding the cup.

Stephen Coen with the middle room and the Tim Clarke cup.

Stephen Coen with the infants and the cup.

3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class football training.

We participate in our local Credit Union competitions and events. They are great fun.

We participated in the Claremorris Credit Union Quiz.  We entered two teams, an A team and a B team. On the A team were Conor Lydon, Evan Flynn, Orlaith Heaney and Amy Hession. On the B team were Ellen O’Conor, Jamie Hession, Megan Commins and Clíona Mc Greal. There were ten rounds made up of six questions for both teams but team B got two extra rounds. Team B came joint third with a score of fifty two. We had to compete in a three question tie-breaker with Gaelscoil de Búrca. We got all three correct and came third. The teams that came second and first got fifty three and fifty four points. We really enjoyed the experience and were proud of our accomplishment.

The Credit Union visits our school twice a month. We have plastic savings cards with which we can lodge money into our accounts. Ciaran Sweeney and Miriam Duffy help us with our savings accounts.

Miriam first visited to tell us about the savings card. We give her our money and then she scans our card. When she is finished the total amount of money is written on the card. We can bring our cards to our local Credit Union and we can take our money off it.

This is the computer that scans our cards.

Every year we also enter the Credit Union art competition. We enter three different age groups.  It is good fun and you can meet new people at the prize giving ceremony.

Congratulations to Ms. Naughton and husband Brian on the birth of their baby girl, Beth, at 12.05pm yesterday.

Baby and mum are doing fine and we wish them the very best.

C’mon Mayo, bring home Sam!! 🙂

We had great fun with Nancy the clown.

“@gortskehy: “Our Open Day” foilsithe ag Thomas. bit.ly/Yh0jGM”looks great !

— Anne White (@AinedeFaoite) May 2, 2013