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April 8th 2025

On Thursday, 20th March our Sanctuary committee welcomed visitors from TUS Athlone, which is a University of Sanctuary. This was to celebrate Refugees in Education week and to learn more about TUS. In attendance were Vice President for Student Education and Experiences: Frances O’Connell, University of Sanctuary Project Officer: Mona Khan, Access Officer: Jenny Burke and…

A brilliant day was had in Gallen CS, Ferbane on April 2nd as our Asgard students travelled over to partake in an Indoor Soccer Tournament. There was some great skills on display. Thanks to Gallen for hosting and well done to all involved.

Our highly anticipated TY Fashion Show took place in our school on April 3rd. The show did not disappoint, thrilling a packed audience from start to finish. A combination of style, music, dancing and laughter set the tone for the night, where a wide range of local brands and stores kindly offered their wears for…

We are thrilled to celebrate the achievement of our 1st Year Boys Basketball Team, who have been crowned champions of the 1st Year Boys Midlands League after beating St. Brendan’s Community School, Birr in the final on the 7th of March.This victory marks another exciting step forward for basketball at Mercy Secondary School, Kilbeggan. With…

Eion Robinson, Jack Larkin, and Shane King went on the Midlands 103 radio program CountryLife with MJ Cleary. They spoke about their experience of the Certified Irish Angus schools competition.

Asgard students had a great trip to Dublin on Tuesday, March 25th. They went to Jump Zone in Liffey Valley where there was huge excitement and some great battles on the gladiator balance beam. We finished the day with some food and shopping in Liffey Valley shopping centre. It was a productive day out, with…

On Wednesday, March 26th our TYs completed a forensic science workshop. It was a two hour session about the John F. Kennedy assassination that happened in 1963. Prior to the workshop, the students watched a background video. They got to do some investigating themselves by looking at some of the evidence from the scene and…

On Friday, 21st March our Sanctuary committee organised ‘Wear Red Day’. Students and staff wore red to support the ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ initiative, run by the Immigrant Council of Ireland and the Football Association of Ireland. We collected €820, which has been donated to the Immigrant Council of Ireland. 

Congratulations to Transition Year student Martha O’Grady, who represented our school at the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad final in DCU on the week ending Friday, March 14th. The AILO is a contest in which secondary school students develop their own skills for solving problems in a multitude of languages from around the globe. Students must use their…