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On Friday the 18th of January, a selection of the cast of Desmond College’s production of Thank You for The Music: Our Mamma Mia Story journeyed to the Brothers of Charity in Bawnmore, Co. Limerick to perform an abridged version of the show for the service users. This abridged version of the story was designed…

Plastic is NOT Fantastic

In our quest to encourage best practice in recycling, the Student Council in Desmond College saw an opportunity to reduce the amount of plastic waste that was flowing through our school everyday.  Each day, both staff and students were going through over 400 plastic water bottles. A huge percentage of these water bottles were not…

Last week students from Colaiste Chiarain, Croom attended the “Macbeth Session” delivered by Cyclone Rep, a Theatre in Education Company. Since Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is on the Leaving Certificate course, this session was of huge benefit to the students. Every year the English department organise for students at both Junior and Senior cycle to view these…

BTEI Awards Evening in Clare

The BTEI in Clare held their certification evening for Ennis based students on Thursday December 6th in the Old Ground Hotel.  Guest of Honour on the night was Ennis based Councillor and current Chairperson of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board,  Ms. Mary Howard. In presenting the certificates, Cllr Howard  emphasised the value of…

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) launched The LGBTI+ National Youth Strategy 2018-2020 in June of this year, noted within the strategy that LGBTI+ youth groups and organisations have a hugely positive impact on the lives of young LGBTI+ people As part of the strategy DCYA, in partnership with the Education and Training…