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Last night our 6th class leavers class of 2025 gathered together with friends and family in a graduation mass in our Friary Hall. The mass was led by reading and singing, our chaplain Fr Benedict then addressed the boys and their families before taking a trip down memory lane with a highlights video. Finally, the…

This week, the second last week before summer holidays saw our classes sell sponsorship for their annual walks. Our 2nd and 3rd Classes made their way to Ice House Hill for their Dundalk walk while our 4th class visited Clarke Train Station in Dundalk. Here they learned all about the history of the station and…

Our 6th Class leavers took to Lisburn for their final school tour in St Malachy’s Boys school 🙁 However, if there was to be a tour to depart on – this was it!! Starting at Lagan Valley, the boys enjoyed over an hour of lazy rivers and rapid water slides with their classmates before grabbing…

Our 4th class thoroughly enjoyed their school tour to airtastic for bowling and trampoline/soft play. The boys took a bus to the Craigavon venue and spent quality time with their colleagues rolling for strikes and spares while then showing off their slam dunks and flips into the foam pit. Overall it was a very enjoyable…

Our Sports Day was a fantastic occassion and it was wonderful to see everybody competing in our heats and class relays. However, there were also some prize winners in each age group and they were recognised at our proze giving ceremony. See our prize winners by age group below. Each age group had an overall…

Our 5th class set out on their school tour last week to Fantasia waterpark and bowling. It was a very enjoyable tour for the group. Check out some photos below:

Our lunchtime league finals took place this afternoon with both Ulster and Leinster making it through their semi-final in both the Junior and Senior competition. These teams have been playing together for 4 weeks, getting to know eachother and working out their strengths in certain positions. We were very luck to have our prior (Fr…

Our annual fun day took place today with classes all taking part in activities such as dodgeball, shoot the hoop and penalties while our lunchtime league semi-finals in the morning time. After lunch our junior and senior lunchtime league finals took place. The Friary field was a hive of activity and there was something for…

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…