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A big well done to our 1st yr girls Basketball team who made the short trip to Charleville to play St. Mary's yesterday. They opened the scoring & carried on to play great basketball. We went into the 2nd quarter down but the girls rallied and dominated the rest of the game and came out after a tough 4 quarters the winners on a score of 29-35. Well Done girls 🏀🏀🏀

Commiserations to our Senior Camogie Team who were very unlucky to lose by the smallest of margins to Pobalscoil na Trionoide Youghal in the Intermediate Colleges ‘B’ County Final on Saturday last. A goal from Kate Cremin and points from Avabha Clifford left the Coláiste in a strong position at half time.

A Review of the School Transport Scheme is underway. If you are a parent/guardian , please take the Department of Education survey before February 10th.

Artist in the classroom took place on Tuesday 14th of December. Artist Bridget Kiely - Carey from Bruff Co. Limerick did amazing work with the 2nd year students. They produced wreaths using natural found materials and added in objects modelled in class on the day. Well done to all the students who took part and a special thanks to Bridget.

I hope ye had a very good Christmas. The Colaiste will reopen in the morning as planned. Please find a useful flow-chart guideline below for those who are COVID-19 close contacts. This is based on the latest guidelines via

Third years celebrated Christmas in the Coláiste by participating in a Quiz. They were given some treats and a raffle took place. We wish the students a very happy Christmas and we are looking forward to seeing ye all back in the new year.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the Staff and Students in Coláiste Mhuire, Buttevant.

Margaret Lehane ‘Dromcommer Pig Farm’ in Kanturk gave our lucky 5th Year Ag Science students a tour of her impressive farm recently. Huge thank you to Margaret for facilitating this visit especially as the week before she did the same for our Leaving Certs. This experience has been very beneficial to our students learning.

Well done to all our students who got in the festive mood for our Christmas Jumper Day in aid of the Cork Simon Community. Over 800 euro was raised from the event. We were also treated to beautiful carol singing by the school choir and some of the Colaiste staff. Well done everyone.

Tomorrow is Christmas jumper day in the Colaiste. Students are asked to bring €2 which will be donated to the Cork Simon Community. Student Council reps will collect this money in assembly tomorrow.

Well done to 2nd Year Home Economics students kicking off the festive baking with some gingerbread people!

The Leaving Certificate Ag Science class visited Margaret Lehane ‘Dromcommer Pig Farm’ in Kanturk recently - A 3,000 indoor pig enterprise. They learnt from her experience and were able to see their subject theory in practice. Huge thank you to Margaret for facilitating this visit.

Congratulations to our U15 boys soccer team who got off to a winning start today beating Charleville CBS 3-2 in a very close and exciting game. Well done lads!!

Students took part in various activities during the week from Science Quizzes, Science Relay Races, Poster competitions, Meme competitions and 30 Second competitions. 5 TY students entered the Certified Irish Angus Beef competition.

Congratulations to our Senior Camogie Girls who beat Coachford Community College by one point today in Mahon. The girls fought hard right to the end and are now through to the final. Well done girls.

Our 1st Year girls continued their winning streak last week beating Gael Colaiste Mhuire AG 8-05 to 5-05 . In their previous game they beat Ursoline Secondary School (Blackrock) 8-05 to 1-04. Well done to everyone involved.

Congratulations to our U16 girls football team who beat Ballincollig Community School 1-10 to 1-03. Well done to everyone involved.

Well done to our 1st year (1c) students who finished their Tea Pot stands in Wood Technology last week. 1st year students benefit from the taster program - trying/ experiencing every subject before they decide on their Junior Cycle subjects. The projects were very well made and fantastic creativity shown in their designs.

Hard luck to the Boys U17 soccer team after losing 3-2 after extra time to St. Pats Castleisland courtesy of a late penalty. They fought bravely, with goals from Dylan Barrett and a Castleisland o.g. in normal time.

Well done to our senior soccer team who beat Millstreet Community School 5-0 yesterday in Buttevant. A super result and hopefully the first of many. Goals from Billy O'Riordan(2), Tristan Collins, David Hanlon and Aaron Trimm.