Another Donegal school cancels trip due to Coronavirus fears
A secondary school in Bundoran in Co. Donegal is the 2nd reported school in the region that has cancelled their school trip over fears of Coronavirus. Magh-Éne College in Bundoran has cancelled their 5th year educational trip to Rhineland in Germany. The 33 students and staff were due to travel…
Calls for safety measures to be put in place at between Sooey and Conway’s Cross.
A Sligo councillor is calling for safety measures to be implemented at what is one of the busiest junctions beside a secondary school in the east of the county. Fine Gael Councillor Gerard Mullaney will propose at a meeting this coming Monday of councillors from the Ballymote/Tubbercurry district that funding…
Impressive victories for Summerhill and Coola soccer teams
It has been a good couple of days for Sligo schools on the soccer fields. Summerhill College are through to the Connacht senior final after a 2-0 defeat of St Gerald’s Castlebar. Kaillum Burns scored both goals and the final is due to take place next week. Meanwhile, on Monday,…
Coola claim victory in senior league quarter-final
Coola Post Primary School have reached the Connacht Senior C League semi-finals. They beat Glenamaddy by 2-8 to 1-10 yesterday in their quarter-final. In yesterday’s Senior B quarter-final, St Muredach’s of Ballina beat Carrick-on-Shannon Community School by 4-16 to 1-14.
Bus seats now available for Collooney pupils attending Coola school
Bus Eireann has made seats available to five families in Collooney who were at risk of having no way for their children to get to school. The situation affected at least five families with concessionary bus tickets to Coola Post-primary school. Sinn Fein Councillor Thomas Healy has welcomed the move…
Relief as the first of this year’s exams are done
Students at a school in the North West say they are relieved to have the first exam out of the way. More than seven thousand pupils at schools in Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal have now finished the first English paper this morning. For junior certs it was a new and…
Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal students preparing for international tests
A number of northwest youngsters will be in action for Republic of Ireland international teams this evening. Sligo Rovers John Mahon (pictured), from Coola Post Primary School, is part of the Irish U18 Schoolboys squad that will face Scotland in Glasgow in the Centenary Shield at 7pm. Donegal’s Jamie Bell…