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🌍✨ Culture Day 2025 – Celebrating Talent Across Tipperary ETB! 🎭🎨🧠

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Culture Day made a vibrant return on Friday, 16 May 2025, with a half-day extravaganza of events and competitions hosted at TUS Thurles campus. All 10 Tipperary ETB post-primary schools were proudly represented in a celebration of student creativity and collaboration.
🎮🧵🖌️ Events included:
• Games Fleadh
• Table Quiz (Junior & Senior)
• Sustainable Fashion
• Art
• Poetry (Junior & Senior)
• Photography (Junior & Senior)
• Debating (Junior & Senior)
Nenagh College is incredibly proud of our students’ achievements:
🏆 Bella Burns – 1st place in the Junior Poetry Competition / Comórtas Filíochta (Sóisearach) – Comhghairdeas, Bella!
🥈 Max Malik and Kacper Mikolajczyk – 2nd place in the Games Fleadh with their brilliant Make Code Arcade game Planet Clicker
🎨 Keely Johnston – Represented Nenagh College in the Art Competition
📸 Oskar Koniuszek – Showcased his talent in the Photography Competition
👏 Huge thanks to all the students who took part and to all the teachers who supported and encouraged them throughout the event.
An unforgettable day of creativity, teamwork, and school spirit! 💫

Fire Safety

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On Monday 12 May, TY students had the opportunity to attend an engaging and informative talk on fire safety, delivered by Dearan and Robby, two local fire service professionals. The session covered essential topics such as how to prevent fires at home, what to do in case of an emergency, and the importance of working smoke alarms. Students also got a close-up look at real firefighting equipment and heard first hand stories that highlighted the importance of staying calm and prepared. A huge thank you to our guest speakers for sharing their expertise and helping our students become more safety-aware. 

Tractor Driving Certificates

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Our Agricultural Science teacher Ms Duffy presented Certificates of Attendance to some of the senior students who successfully completed the FRS training in Tractor Driving, wishing them safe driving in the busy weeks ahead and best of luck in their exams.

Excellence in Education

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Our 2nd Year focus group were treated this morning for their participation in Tipperary ETB’s   which is a county-wide initiative aimed at improving teaching and learning. Each school involved chooses a focus area.Our focus this year was the subject of English. Well done to all.

Senior Camogie

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Huge congratulations to our Senior Camogie team who are through to the Munster Final after a fantastic win over Boherbue (Cork) last Tuesday!
They’ll face St. Paul’s (Waterford) in Walsh Park this coming Monday – let’s get behind them!
Best of luck from all at Nenagh College!

School Rugby

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Our U17’s Rugby team took part in a local blitz against Nenagh CBS. They played three 15-minute games with an even score of 3-3 after the first. CBS edged ahead in the second game with a final score of 6 -4
We took a two try lead early on and remained extremely competitive all throughout the game. A Conor Ryan try in the final third brought the score to 6-5 but the blitz finished with a score of 10-5 to CBS.
A number of standout performances from our guts including all our try scorers, Oisin Ryan in the centre, Cullin o Brien at scrum half and Thomas Ryan and Daire Boland who carried strongly throughout
Well done to all involved and a mention also for the speedy recovery of Oisin Ryan who picked up a hand injury.
 
Our U15s also put in a strong showing at the local blitz, narrowly losing to a solid CBS side who went on to beat Borrisokane 5-0. Great effort from the team throughout!

Art Tour of Limerick

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🎨 Our First Year Art Group had an inspiring trip to the Limerick Hunt Museum on Thursday, 15th May, as part of their preparation for the Summer Assessment. 🖼️
 
They were guided by their Art Teacher, Ms Beirne, along with Ms Ruiz and SNA Becky.
 
Students also got to experience the vibrant world of Limerick Drawout Graffiti Art as the second part of the tour! 🎨🧑‍🎨✨

Alzheimer’s Association

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Well done to our Transition Year students who organised an Easter Egg and Teddy Bear Raffle and raised €150 for the Alzheimer’s association of Ireland; pictured here is Catherine O Keeffe TY year head and Breda O Meara of the Alzheimer’s association. 

Third Year Habitat and Biodiversity study

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Our 3rd year students had a great day of scientific exploration in Cabragh Wetlands in Thurles last week. We went to the wetlands to conduct our Habitat and Biodiversity studies for Junior Cycle Science. While there the students got to use the equipment and explore the natural world around them and to learn more about the web of life that sustains our planet. A huge thank you to all the staff at Cabragh Wetlands for a great experience on the day.