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The Inaugural Griffiths Table Tennis Cup was held this evening, the 6th December, in Dunmore Sports Hall. The Leaving Cert Team won 9 of their games, and unfortunately, the Teachers Team only managed to win 7. Both the students, and the teachers have been working hard at training for this for the last few weeks. Well done to the Leaving Cert Team. The cup was presented to the Leaving Cert Team Captain, Jamie Molloy, by Ms Griffiths, Deputy Principal.   Also |
Congratulation to Patrick Burke, Brackloon, a past student of Dunmore CS.  Patrick was named as the winner in the Teacher Education Category of the prestigious 2012 Undergraduate Awards. Patrick's Paper was entitled “Rewarding Results in Reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic: Literacy and Numeracy Today and During Payment-By-Results in Irish Primary Schools (1872-1899). Last year, Trevor Glavey was named winner in the Law category at the 2011 Undergraduate Awards ceremony. Well done to both. |
 Deputy Principal M. Griffiths, Rachel Tierney, Laura Raftery, Ms S Doyle & Olivia Divilly. |
Well done to Rachel Tierney & Olivia Divilly who won the Local Final of the 'Ballinasloe & District Branch' of 'Soroptimist International last night in Ballinasloe. The girls now go forward to the Regional Final in Drogheda on the 4th of February 2012. Well done also to Katie Kirrane, Aisling Kirrane, Laura Raftery, Ciara Kilgarriff and Chloe Donnellan who also did us proud on the night.  From L to R: Deputy Principal M Griffiths, Olivia Divilly & Laura Raftery
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2nd Year had an Interclass Badminton Tournament this week.  Well done to all who took part. Plate Winner -Jack Reinhardt Cup Winner - Bronson Kelly Cup Winner -Roisin Moran Doubles plate r-up - Fiachra Manhire & Stuart Troy Runner up plate -Padraig Joyner & Conor Burns Cup doubles winners - Eanna Glynn & Bronson Kelly Runner up |
Well done to Eoghan Hussey, Ballintava, Dunmore who won the East of Scotland Gymnastics Championships with Tuam All Star Gymnastics club. Eoghan is a 3rd Year Student in DCS.
 He is now training for European try outs.
We wish Eoghan all the best in his endeavor.
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Well done to Ronan Gannon from Cloonfad, who is a member of the winning team who won the Mayo area Red Cross competition recently. Ronan is a 3rd Year student in DCS.
He went on to the All Ireland Finals in Wicklow, where he came third in the country.
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Well done to the First year boys football team who beat Colaiste Iognaid on Wednesday the 24th Oct.
This was their first game for their new school DCS and lets hope they can replicate this winning form in all sports that they participate in during their years in DCS. |
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Staff & Management of DCS extends our very best wishes to all the 2012 Leaving Cert Class as they begin their studies in the various 3rd level colleges at this time.
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 Paul Clesham,a past pupil of Dunmore Community School has been awarded a Scholarship from University College Cork to Wesleyan University,Middletown,Connecticut for a semester to study music.This is a very prestigious award and Paul is delighted to have become part of the student body at Wesleyan University.He has already completed a year in UCC.Paul has been afforded many opportunities throughout the years through his involvement in music.He is part of the Trad group The Rambling Rogues and has |
 Thanks to all the primary schools who attended our basketball blitz on Monday. 148 students took part in the event and it was a huge success. Congratulations to the winners, Creggs N.S. (Boys event), Williamstown N.S (girls’ event), Dunmore N.S (Mixes event) |
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Good luck to Rachel Tierney this weekend as she travels to Thurles to compete in the All-Ireland final.
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Our Transition year students will go on Retreat next week with some neighbouring schools. They are also preparing their project for YSI which will take place in Dublin this week.
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Our first & second year girls team are training hard at them moment. Both teams defeated Pres. Tuam last week and will play Glenamaddy and Castlerea in the coming weeks.
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We recently erected two handball walls in our sport shall and it has become a very popular sport in our school. Darragh Daly (Handball Ireland) and Liam Kelly (Mount Talbot handball Club) visited our school this week to give handball workshops to the boys in school. We were delighted with the visit and proud to show off our skills.
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Good luck to Mickey Dilger and Broson Kelly who represent the school in the All-Ireland final next Saturday 10th March in St. Mary’s College Galway.
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 Well done to Laura-Ann Costello who represented Ireland in the 60m & 200m last weekend in Great Britain. Laura Ann came 5th in the 60m final and won a silver medal in the 200m. We are very proud of her achievements.
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 Dunmore Community students were presented with their Silver Gaisce Awards by Ray D’Arcy at a presentation ceremony in Trinity College,Dublin. They achieved their awards as a result of taking on a 26 week challenge in the areas of Personal Skill,Physical Recreation and Community Involvement. Their final task was to complete an adventure journey which covered a distance of 60km over 3 days. The students are very proud of their achievements and a number of them are taking on the Gold
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Congratulations to past Student, Charlotte O' Sullivan on been awarded an All Ireland Scholarship recently.  She is pictured here, been congraulated by J.P. McManus, Peter Power (TD) and Mr. Gay McManus, Principal of Dunmore CS at the University of Limerick in Nov 2010. |
Best wishes to Richard Cunningham, who is competing on the Irelands got Talent show this weekend. Richard completed his LC here last June.  Richard won the Dunmore CS X Factor Competition on March 26th 2010 with his fantastic rendition of 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra. Best of Luck Richard. |
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