Hard luck to our Junior Ladies Football Panel and their coach Ms. Ella Ryan who lost to St.Anne’s of Clonmel in the Junior C Munster Final in Pairc Ui Chaoimh. They had a super attitude through out by supporting each other and never giving up. Their heads never dropped. Thanks to the girls, their coach Ms. Ryan, Mr. Chris O Brien First Aid Responder and the parents who travelled up to support.
Well done to Gavin, Alan and Ferdia for representing our school so well at today’s Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships in Co. Clare. The lads did fantastically well with Gavin coming 10th, Ferdia 15th and Alan 32nd in all of munster. Well done lads. Youve done us proud. Mant thanks to their coaches Ms. Niamh Lordan and Mr. Peter Swanton and to Ms. Sweetnam for the support today.
First year girls basketball team make it three wins in a row with comfortable victory against St. Angela’s. Well done to all.
Congratulations to our U16 Boys Basketball Team and their coach Ms. Marie O Mahony on reaching the All-Ireland League Final in Dublin today. They beat St. Peter’s of Wexford by 40 points to 30 in the quarter final and then went on an hour later to beat the much fancied Dundalk Grammar School by 50 points to 32 in the SemiFinal. They will travel to Tallaght again looking to make it a League and Cup Double! Many thanks to the lads, Ms. O Mahony and Ms. Lordan, Ms. Kavanagh and Ms. Buckley for travelling today in awful weather conditions. Another great day for Skibb Basketball!!
The following Skibbereen Community School students are currently training with Cork squads. We wish them well with their involvement this weekend!
U 16
Oisin Daly
Niall Daly
Cathail Hegarty
Jack O Neill
Jamie O Driscoll
Shane Carey
U15
Mark Keating
Dylan Hourihane
Shane O Connell
James Buckley
U14
Frank Hurley
Finn Brickley
Aidan Fahy
Sean Connolly
Donal O Callaghan
Ryan McCarthy
Luke Shorten
Well done to our U14, First Year Girls Football Team and their coach Ms. Niamh Lordan on beating MICC Dunmanway today. Many thanks to Mr. Chris O Brien for accompanying the squad.
Pictured are our First and second Year Boys and Girls Football Teams who train every Thursday after School. Many thanks to our school coaches, visiting coaches and Mr. James McCarthy and Mr. Paudie Crowley Development Officers for all their efforts.
Congratulations to our 15 TY students who completed their week long coding training course today. Each was presented with their certificate by the Vodafone team. Many thanks to Laura, Molly, Ian and Elliott for their kindness, skills, patience and motivation. They came down from Dublin and stayed for the week. Our gang thanked them with a West Cork Mug!
Well done to our first year girls basketball team who have started their A league campaign well, recording comfortable wins against Bantry and Midleton.
Pictured is Ms. Lordan’s First Year PE class doing some CPR training today.
Well done to today’s TY Group who did trojan work in picking up plastic/litter on our local beaches. Many thanks to Mr. Rory Jackson for coordinating and to Mr. Chris O Brien for accompanying the team.
Well done to our First Year Boys Basketball Team and their coach Ms. Marie O Mahony who beat Carrigaline Community School today in the league.
Our School hosted a Munster Rugby Skills session today for our First Year Girls and First Years from Scoil Pobail Bheanntrai. Denise, Willie and Damian put them through their paces. Many thanks to them, many thanks to Ms. Aoife Breen, our coach, the travelling team and coaches from Bantry and Chris and Niall our TY Admin officers. The day was glorious for some great rugby.
