Coláiste Chiaráin transition students are delighted with their success at the Limerick Regional Vex Robotics competition. Students Ally Davis, Hannah Lucey, Rubab Kabir, Hassaan Shah, Liam Murphy, Caragh Ruddle, Erin Moore and Magda Nae, along with teachers Mr Conor Power and Mr Padraig McGarry participated and won two awards at the competition on Wednesday 27th…
As part of this year’s Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival, LCETB teacher and adult educator Alex McKillican will be giving a talk on his work and research in adult literacy education. Alex is going to present a discussion based on his current publication Existentialist Theory in the Pedagogy of Paulo Freire, the Adult Learner Journal: The…
Aine Murphy, Lauren Ambrose and Lucy Flaherty all second year students won 1st Place in the Intermediate Section with their company Hy Geeenie at Student Enterprise 2019
Student Enterprise 2019 50 different mini companies from 16 different schools across limerick City & County defended. on the South Court Hotel on March 26th for the annual Limerick Enterprise Office – Student Enterprise Awards. Desmond College were represented by 1st Years Tara Danaher & Josh Dore who won 2nd place in the Junior Section…
St. Mary’s Adult Education Centre will be running some Taster Workshops in the areas of Office Skills and Creative Skills. There will be an Information Session/Coffee Morning on Wednesday 17th April from 10am- 12pm. The workshops will then start on 1st May. Please see attached for more information.
Coláiste Chiaráin Croom: LIT Sports Junior Hurling Coolderry Cup Champions 2018/2019 Congratulations to Coláiste Chiaráin and their management team who won the Junior Hurling Coolderry cup last Friday with a final score of 3-10 to 3-8 against Coláiste Ide agus Iosef School, Abbeyfeale. It was a thrilling game of hurling which produced 6 goals played…
Local Youth Club Grant Scheme 2019 The Local Youth Club Grant Scheme is aimed at providing support to youth work activities at local level. Under the scheme, youth clubs and groups in Limerick and Clare are invited to apply for one-off grants to support their development, administration, programme and service costs. The Scheme supports voluntary…
BT’s 11th Business Bootcamp Programme for students Thirty students of the exhibiting intermediate and senior students from the 2019 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition were invited to take part in a BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp in March in conjunction with UCD where they experienced the world of technology commercialisation and entrepreneurship. Included in…
On Wednesday 13th March, the Transition Year students along with Ms O Mahony and Ms Corkery travelled to Killarney for an overnight trip to take part in adventure activities including mountain hiking and biking and kayaking. Unfortunately due to bad weather conditions the students didn’t kayak. The group stayed in Killarney International Youth Hostel and…