Month: May 2025

The Calaroga Cup brought great excitement to our 2025 Sports Day. St Malachy’s Boys entered two teams along with Bay Estate while the Gaelscoil, Realt na Mara and St Joseph’s entered single teams. All teams performed excellently and with the three schools – Boys, Girls and Infants out to support it made for a fantastic…

The Friary field was a hive of activity on Friday last with our annual Sports Day taking place following postponement on Thursday. Thankfully the weather played it’s part along with every pupil in the school. As is tradition, we kicked off with the junior and senior heats on two tracks. These included the sprints, sack…

Our Chess Club Final took place earlier this week with two finalists from 5th class – Shane and Jake. It was an exhilerating final that went right to the wire with Shane pipping Jake for Checkmate in the end!! Both Shane and Jake visited the classes after the final to show off their trophies and…

This month we commenced with our Budaí Léitheoireachta programme for 2025. This is a long standing tradition in St Malachy’s Boys and one which is very beneficial to all involved. The programme allows 6th class to help model and support our 3rd class in their Irish reading – sounding out new words and phrases to…

Well done to our U13s gaelic squad who beat the CBS and Realt na Mara in a blitz on the Friary field this morning. A group made up of 5th and 6th class boys took the first steps in the Corn Bhliain Mhuire – Cumann na mbunscol’s summer competition. The wins secure a place in…

An exciting day in St Malachy’s Boys’ School today with the vist of the Leinster Provincial trophy which Louth captured in Croke Park just over a week ago. The Delaney cup is the prize for winning the Leinster Championship and with this being Louth’s first success since 1957, it has brought great excitemnet to the…

On Wednesday our 2nd Classes took off on their first school tour in the boys school to the Crystal Maze in Co Meath bright and early. The weather was incredible, which definitely helped make the 2nd class tour one to remember. Firstly, the boys were organised in to small groups to compete in various challenges.…

Congratulations to our wonderful 2nd Classes who made their First Holy Communion on Saturday. The boys working very hard on their preparations alongside their teachers and SNA’s, as expected they performed fantastically on their big day. Well done to all involved. We hope you all enjoyed the celebrations.

The school was a sea of Red & White for Lá dearg as we wish past pupils Aaron Culligan, Dylan McKeown and all the Louth team the very best of luck in Sunday’s Leinster Final against Meath.

This week saw the launch of our annual lunchtime league. This competition sees the junior (3rd & 4th) and senior (5th & 6th) classes battle for the Fr Kane cup. The teams will play some rounds of a eague format for the next number of weeks before entering into semi-final stages. We wish them all…