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Folúntas: Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh

October 15, 2014

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Folúntas: Gaelscoil Chluain Meala

October 13, 2014

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Folúntas: Coláiste Pobail, Rathcairn

October 13, 2014

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Folúntas: Gaelscoil Chnoc na Ré

October 13, 2014

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Coláiste Loch Gile Committee Newsletter

October 10, 2014

Oideachas dara leibheál i nGaeilge / 2nd Level Education in Irish

Agus an geimhreadh ag druidim linn, tá Coiste Coláiste Loch Gile ag féachaint chun tosaigh go dtí Meán Fómhair 2015 agus tá soláthair oideachais meánscoile trí Ghaeilge don réigiún á phleanáil.

As winter draws near, the Coláiste Loch Gile Committee are focused on September 2015 and the provision of second level education through Irish in the region.

Tá Coiste roghnaithe agus tionóladh cruinniú ar an Mháirt 30 Meán Fómhair 2014 i nGaelscoil Chnoc na Ré, Baile Uí Dhúgáin, Sligeach, ag a raibh siad seo leanas:

A Committee has been formed and the following were present at a meeting held on 30 September 2014 in Gaelscoil Chnoc na Ré, Ballydoogan, Sligo:

Clare Spáinneach, Gaelscoileanna Teo.; Anna Ní Bhroin, Cathaoirleach/Chairperson, Coiste/ Committee Coláiste Loch Gile; Carol Ní Chormaic, Coiste/Committee Coláiste Loch Gile; Máiréad Ní Ghonlaigh, múinteoir/teacher, GS Chluainín/Manorhamilton; Bartley Ó Gabháin, Cathaoirleach Bord Bainistíochta/Chairperson Board of Management, GS Chnoc na Ré; Dara Gallagher, Tuismitheoir & Coiste Cairde/Parent & Cairde Committee, Gaelscoil Chnoc na Ré agus Mícheál Ó Broin, Príomhoide/Principal, GS Chnoc na Ré.

Bhí leithscéal ó / There were apologies from: Sinéad Ní Thorsnaigh, Príomhoide/Principal, GS Chluainín, Manorhamilton; Rossa Ó Snodaigh, tuismitheoir/parent, GS Chluainín; Katríona Kerrigan, Coiste/Committee Coláiste Loch Gile; Shauna Mackey, tuismitheoir/parent, GS Chnoc na Ré agus Marcella McGarry, tuismitheoir/parent, GS Chnoc na Ré.

Leis an phobal agus na meáin a chur ar an eolas agus ceisteanna a fhreagairt maidir le dul chun cinn Coláiste Loch Gile, socraíodh go reachtálfar trí chruinniú eolais sna ceantair seo leanas sna seachtainní amach romhainn: Sligeach, Cluainín Uí Ruairc agus Béal Átha Seannaidh. Tá na cruinnithe seo a eagrú faoi láthair agus beidh eolas maidir le dátaí agus ionaid a scaipeadh go luath.

To inform the public and the media regarding the progress of Coláiste Loch Gile, it was agreed that a series of information meetings be conducted in the following areas in the coming weeks: Sligo, Manorhamilton and Ballyshannon. These meetings are being organised at present and details of dates and venues will be announced soon.

Tuilleadh eolais / further information: gaelcholaiste2015@gmail.com

Folúntais: Meánscoil San Nioclás

October 10, 2014

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Training for Boards of Management in October 2014

October 10, 2014

A ‘Child Protection’ training module will be put in place by Gaelscoileanna Teo and an Foras Pátrúnachta in October 2014, for all Boards of management.

We are delighted to announce, this years trainer will again be educational expert, Eileen Flynn.

Training will be provided for the module ‘Cosaint Leanaí’:

In the Cork Education Centre on Thursday, October 16th, between 7.00p.m. and 9.00p.m.

In the Green Isle Hotel Dublin on Wednesday ,October 22nd , between 7.00p.m. and 9.00p.m.

Board of management representatives from each school are welcome to attend. Schools are required to fill in the registration form available here and send it to nora@gaelscoileanna.ie.

Should anyone attending the training seminar require a simultaneous translation, please notify Nora – it will be availably on request only.

To attend the Cork seminar contact, nora@gaelscoileanna.ie contact prior Monday October 13th.

To attend the Dublin seminar contact, nora@gaelscoileanna.ie contact prior Friday October 17th.

Folúntas: Gaelscoil Uí Drisceoil

October 10, 2014

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Oifigeach Forbartha á lorg ag Feachtas: Óg-Ghluaiseacht na Gaeilge

October 10, 2014

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Many highlights in 20 years of Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn

October 10, 2014

This Friday October 10, Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn is celebrating 20 years since its humble beginnings in Oaklawns with a student body of just 25.

Now, with roughly 250 children attending each year, it has grown and flourished along with the new building which opened on the Ashe Road 10 years ago.

Principal Caroline Mhic Róibín remembers when the idea of a Gaelscoil for Mullingar was first floated in the town, she was teaching in Multyfarnham, and with a strong interest in Irish, she was first interested from a prospective parent’s point of view.

“We started off in Oaklawns with 24 children in a little unit. It was a bungalow with a shop at the front and we were there for 10 years,” remembers Caroline.

“Obviously it wasn’t purpose-built for a school but that was where we started. We went from 24 pupils in the first year, the following year I think we had 50-something children, so we got a second teacher, and every year for eight years we took a full class and a teacher. When we grew to be an eight-teacher school you automatically become an administrative principal. I don’t know where the years have gone, but it’s been a huge success story.

“I can’t emphasise enough the amount of work the parents did in those early days. I remember when I got the job first, there was nothing. The school literally didn’t even have a red biro, so there was huge amount of fundraising done. It was really hard work and they were an absolutely brilliant bunch of parents, because as I say, we came from that little unit to eventually getting this school here.”

One of the biggest highlights over the last two decades was securing the new premises on Ashe Road.

“When we got this school, the day when it opened, I’ll never forget it. It’s a beautiful school, it’s lovely and bright and airy, because when we were in Oaklawns, we had seven green prefabs out the back. I mean, it was like the army, like the Curragh camp,” she laughs.

“We hadn’t a blade of grass in the school and we were starting football, so we were bussing the children down to St Loman’s and training them down there. So to get a school like this was a huge achievement.

“At the time when the site was offered to us, all around us was complete green fields, there was no Raithin, no Ardleigh.”

Securing the new premises meant Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn could work on their now legendary sporting tradition.

“The biggest highlight in sport was when our boys won the football, the Cumann na mBunscol, in Division 2. Tommy Carr and Bernard Flynn were parents in the school at the time and they were in charge of the football team. Then the girls won titles, and then our biggest sporting achievement was when we won the Division 1 boys final two years ago. That was the top. It was brilliant!”

The first children to have passed through the Gaelscoil are all now young adults and Caroline hopes that in the 20 years the school has passed on a love and respect for the Irish language.

“I hope that the view locally of Gaelscoil an Mhuilinn is that we have been a positive thing for Mullingar.”

The 20-year celebrations commence this Friday with a blessing ceremony carried out by Fr Kilmartin at noon. There will be a concert with Irish dancing, ballad singing and rock music for parents and pupils.

The festivities don’t end there, as that evening (7-8.30pm), the school will be open to past pupils and parents and anyone who can’t make it during working hours, to view old school roll books and registers and some of the 38,000 photos the teachers have captured of the children over the years.

And as it’s not a school night, everyone is invited to Clarke’s Bar on Patrick Street, where celebrations will continue.

Westmeath Examiner

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