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Our Chess club is back in competition after spending a number of weeks covering lessons in Chess. Our junior and senior pupils will be playing at lunchtimes over the next number of weeks, with a knock-out competition to crown two chess champions. The chess is extremely popular in the school and it’s a great way…

Ms Halpenny’s 4th class have been working on their STEM activities with Knex building. Check out some of the wonderful and innovational manufacturing on show. Well done boys, engineers of the future.

Well done to Mason in 4th class, winner of the Easter colouring competition.  Mason received an art equipment pack from the competition sponsors, Don Keating.

Today was certainly a day to remember for those who travelled to Aviva Stadium for the Aldi tag rugby blitz. 15 players from 6th class made the trip, enjoying not only the chance to play tag rugby but to play it in one of the most iconic stadiums in Europe. The team, mentored by Ms…

Comhghairdeas le na buachaillí ar foireann Tráth na gCeist, bhuaigh siad an comórtas  Feis Mhuitheimhne aréir. Congratualtions to our Tráth na gCeist team who competed and won the  Feis Mhuitheimhne quiz held in our school hall last night. 15 teams competed with St Malachy’s boys coming out on top. Congratulations to Conor, Jeremiah, Matthew and…

Well done to our GAA 7s team who qualified for the county final blitz after coming through a difficult group in Darver today. The group consisted of Louth Village, Kilcurry, St Joseph’s and St Malachy’s BNS. After wins in their two opening games, the final match of the blitz against Kilcurry was a ‘winner takes…

As part of the National School Attendance Campaign for 2023/24, every pupil in our school was invited to submit a poster for the whole school competition. Winners were chosen from each class with each winner receiving an Easter egg!!! Check out the picture of our winners with their fantastic artwork. Well done boys and well…

Well done to our Cluiche Bingo winners today. The Cluiche Bingo was run by the 6th class boys and they did a fantastic job. They brought great excitement to all classes calling numbers out as gaeilge agus as béarla. Well done to all involved.    

Last night brought an end to our Easter shows for 2024!! This was our first year back doing class shows since before Covid 19 and what a fantastic response we had!! Our shows ran on Wednesday the 13th and 20th of March with a variety of classes taking part each night. We would like to…

Due tio our busy show schedule we delayed our Lá Glas until today in St Malachy’s. As always there was a fantastic turn out with pupils and teachers alike donning Green of all shades. Check out some of our photos below.

Well done to our 6th Class boys who took part in the regional finals of the Primary FAI 5-A-SIDE competition today in DKIT Sport. The boys competed in a very strong 5 team group, winning all but one of their matches to finish as a regional runner up. Well done also to our colleagues in…

The All County 7-A-Side GAA competition threw in this week when we hosted Realt an Mara and Gaelscoil Dún Dealgan in the Friary field. The mini blitz ran 7 minutes a half and produced some excellent displays of goalkeeper saves, tackling, fielding and excellent point taking from all three teams. In the end, the boys…