All Ireland Badminton Final for Coláiste Mhuire Ballygar

On Wednesday 25 March 2015 a team of Under 14 Boys from Coláiste Mhuire Ballygar, competed in the All Ireland Badminton Final.  The boys Enda Clogher, Cian Naughton, Karl Healy and Nikodem Mogala qualified as the Connaught Finalists and went forward to Gormanston in Co Meath for the final.

Coláiste Mhuire Ballygar are very thankful to Oliver Holmes of Centra Ballygar for sponsoring Hoodies and tops for the boys for the event.  The boys are very grateful to all who helped them to prepare for the day.  They were lucky to have such good facilities for training at the Mattie McDonagh Centre.  It was a historic day for Coláiste Mhuire as it was the first time that our students were representing us in an all Ireland Badminton Final. 

The day started with a parade of all the teams taking part.  Our boys proudly carried our school banner.  With their new kit they looked the part and were excited to be part of such a major competition.  Following the parade each team were allotted a court where their matches for the day took place.   There were 16 courts and games were played non-stop for the day by the competitors.
Our boys represented us well and had some very close games.  They were unfortunate to come up against an extremely strong team from Kanturk, Co Cork who won the competition out. Well done and congratulations to all involved especially Mr. Curran, Mrs. Flanagan, Ms. Berine, Mr. Devaney and Mrs. Clogher.



Coláiste Mhuire students wins top awards in Design and Communications Graphics Competition

Siafra Conroy and Aaron Traynor were shortlisted in the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology best DCG (Technical Drawing) project in the regional Galway finals. Siafra actually came out in First place in a male dominated shortlist as shown by the photo. Well done to Siafra, Aaron and their teacher Mr. Madden.



Football
Coláiste Mhuire Ballygar, footballers made it to a Connaught final by beating Roscommon Community College in what was an exciting semi final.

Our full backline of Conor Downey, Simon Tomas and Sam O Sullivan were outstanding and when called upon goalie Cian Finneran, he too excelled between the posts.Adam Farrell and Karl Healy combined very well to score some great points especially in the second half when Ballygar pulled clear of Roscommon. Darragh Keegan used his speed to great effect scoring an excellent goal. Congratulations to Mr. Madden and all team members.

Past pupil Edward Conlon pays a return visit to Senior Cycle Construction class

On Thursday last Coláiste Mhuire senior cycle students had a visit from one of their own past pupils, Mr. Edward Conlon, from Conlon Consulting and Engineering, Racecourse Road, Roscommon. Edward spoke to the 5th Year Building Construction class on aspects of chartered engineering. 

Despite the adverse weather Edward gave the class a practical demonstration on using some specialist equipment.  He also stayed on to speak to the LCVP class about his journey as a student in Coláiste Mhuire to setting up and running his own company. We wish Edward the best of luck with his new company. Thank you to Mr. O’Leary for organising this event for his lucky students.