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Congratulations to our Under 16 Hurling Team on their 6 point win yesterday. Beating Dunmanway Community College 2-15 to 2-09.

The staff of our school are taking part in a charity “Climb with Charlie” walk in the Ballyhouras on Saturday April 2nd. We would be delighted to be joined on the charity walk with our school Community.

Thanks to the students who provided some music at break time on Thursday. It provided a lovely atmosphere around the Coláiste. Well done to all involved - every one of the performers sounded fab!

Another great win yesterday for our 1st Yr girls Basketball team. They beat Colaiste Treasa, Kanturk on a score of 47-17. Great team work again today girls. Well Done 🏀🏀

A group of TY students have embarked on selling training jerseys which are being made available to all students in Coláiste Mhuire. On Thursday the 10th of March and Tuesday the 15th of March at small break, orders will be taken for the training jerseys.

Please click on the link below to find a letter outlining the details of an upcoming online information event for incoming 1st years and their parents on Tuesday the 15th of February at 7pm.

On Thursday 10th February the Chief Executive of Cork ETB, Mr Denis Leamy, and the Director of Schools, Mr Pat McKelvey, visited the Coláiste. Upon arrival they were greeted by our Student Council and a variety of students provided some beautiful musical entertainment.

Congratulations to our senior girls who beat Scoil Ruain Killenaule 6-10 to 3-1 in the Munster Quarter Final in Ballygiblin GAA at the start of this week. A Munster Semi-Final awaits them after the midterm break.

Commiserations to our 1st year Girls Football team losing out in the County Quarter Final to a strong Coachford College team Tuesday. Playing through wet and windy conditions, the girls battled hard and should be proud of their efforts. The girls will be busy in the coming weeks with blitzes set to take place, and we wish them the best of luck! Also a special thank you to our TY’s for helping out!

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.