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THE ARGUS I Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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THE ARGUS I Wednesday, May 20, 2015
St Mary’s Road, Dundalk | Tel 042 933 9984 | Email: info@maristdundalk.com | www.maristdundalk.com
St Mary’s Road, Dundalk | Tel 042 933 9984 | Email: info@maristdundalk.com | www.maristdundalk.com
New Marist College where
opportunity knocks
The Marist College today.
St Mary’s College Student Council.
Excellent Facilities
The long list of illustrious past
pupils bears testament to the
quality of the education which has
long been a feature of a Catholic
school in the Marist tradition.
Fr Jimmy
McElroy S.M.
1861 Marist Fathers arrived to establish St Mary’s College.
The Dr.Pearse Lyons Young Scientist Award was
presented to Ciarán Lennon for excellence in Science.
Your Child’s Future
THE air of excitement was palpable this week
in St. Mary’s College as work gathers apace
on the new college and the school community prepares for what promises to be a very
exciting and interesting Information Night
in the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Monday next
25th May at 7.30 pm.
From their arrival in Dundalk in 1861,
the Marist Fathers have educated many
generations of Dundalk students. Indeed,
as Fr. Jimmy McElroy, Marist Priest and
Chaplain to the College said, the boarding
school, which operated up to 1983 educated
students from all parts of Ireland and abroad.
“The long list of illustrious past pupils bears
testament to the quality of the education,
which has long been a feature of a Catholic
school in the Marist tradition”, he said.
Indeed, the strong ethos of Pastoral Care,
which is a Marist core value, is as noticeably
vibrant today as it was in 1861.
Over the years the College has gone from
strength to strength, becoming co-educational in 1990 when the first girls were enrolled.
As time passed the outdated plant in the old
school curtailed the desire of the management and staff to broaden the curriculum.
However, as the Principal Mr. Mc Ginley
outlined, April 2016 will be a “catalyst for
change and the educational landscape of
Dundalk will be significantly altered”. The
incredibly futuristic new school will incorporate the latest technologies and provide the
most modern education facilities available
in the country. The addition of Music and
Technical Graphics to the curriculum two
years ago, in anticipation of the new school
opening, will be followed by the introduction
of Technology, Metalwork and Materials
Technology Wood, in a deliberate strategy
to broaden the educational opportunities
which will be available to the future students
of the College. The Leaving Certificate
Vocational Programme is being actively
investigated and the Leaving Certificate
Applied programme will be introduced in
September 2016.
With its students excelling in all areas
of the curriculum, their vibrancy and
confidence is tangible. Whether on the
field of play, debating, culinary excellence,
mathematical prowess, artistic achievement,
or winning scholarships, the students of St
Mary’s College have time and time again
proved themselves both nationally and
internationally.
If you have a child in Primary school and
would like to find out more about this new
and exciting educational development,
which will soon be a reality in Dundalk, next
Monday night in the Crowne Plaza Hotel is
an opportunity not to be missed. So come
along at 7.30 and inform yourself.
Wiktoria Staszak is one of five students in Ireland to win a
Scholarship to study Business Informatics in Duale Hochschule
Baden-Württemberg.
NEW SCHOOL OPENS
15th April 2016
We invite you to join us to hear more at an
INFORMATION EVENING …
Monday May 25th 2015
Crowne Plaza Hotel 7.30pm
Tel 042 933 9984 Email: info@maristdundalk.com
www.maristdundalk.com
Marist College Chaplain Fr. Jimmy McElroy S.M. presents the
Chaplaincy Award to Craig Rice.
TY students, St Patrick’s Day Parade Second Place Best Overall
Parade Entry.
Computer generated image of the new school.
Last year Luke Coburn-Moran came fourth in Ireland in the
Mathlete Challenge Competition. This year he is overall Louth
Champion, has won through the Leinster Provence at Google
headquarters and is through to the National Finals.
Eoin Corr at the Shelbourne Hotel after
winning National Cook Hero Award
2015.
Jake McArdle, National Winner Irish
Youth Music Awards 2015.
Shane Durnin recently took part in the
2015 final of Gael Linn’s prestigious
‘Abair’ Irish public speaking competition
in Derry, achieving first place overall.
Lynn Craven and Jade Reddy play
with Shelbourne Football Club. They
have competed for Ireland playing
Denmark, the Czech Republic and
Austria.
Connor McCarron has qualified for the
All-Ireland Discus Throwing in two
weeks time.