Sinéad Donovan, from Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, became an International Soccer player in February this year when she played two International friendlies against Northern Ireland on 20th February in Oriel Park Dundalk and against England in Knutsford in Cheshire on 6th March. These games were all in preparation of the Bob Docherty U15 International tournament which this… Read more »
Coláiste Bhaile Chláir student Sinéad Donovan is living her dream—recently being capped at Republic of Ireland International soccer playing two International friendlies for the Republic of Ireland FAI Schools U15 Girls Soccer Team. Sinéad is part of local club Cregmore Claregalway FC and is the first girl at both Coláiste Bhaile Chláir and the club… Read more »
“Crystals come in all different shapes and sizes and can be found everywhere in nature. Most of the medicines we take are made up of compacted powders and the individual particles of the powders are in fact tiny crystals.” Prof Kieran Hodnett, SSPC Scientific Director. Following the great success of the 2014 SSPC National Crystal… Read more »
by Ciara Fox and Rachel McDonagh 2nd year Monday morning started the same. We trudged tiredly into school. Then we remembered it was Green Schools Action Day! We immediately felt happy and couldn’t wait for the day ahead. There were many games to play and a competition to enter with loads of great prizes. Eoin… Read more »
~Remember~Reflect~Reimagine~ Coláiste Bhaile Chláir is proud to announce its celebratory centenary event in partnership with Beo Digital Schools’ Archive Project, NUI Galway and Claregalway Historical & Cultural Society. The BEO Project represents a golden opportunity for the school to become a major catalyst in the collecting, digitizing and online storage of rare material associated with… Read more »
Coláiste Bhaile Chláir in Claregalway is among the first schools in Ireland to benefit from specialist teacher training in coding, aided by the donation of development boards by computing innovation world leader Intel. Over fifty junior cycle teachers, who will be among the first to teach the new Junior Cycle short course in Coding, spent a… Read more »
An estimated twenty children have been refused a place in the new secondary school in Claregalway with capacity full before it even opens its doors on a new permanent facility. Coláiste Bhaile Chláir (CBC) opened in 2013 on a temporary site in the Claregalway Corporate Park with 174 first year pupils. That jumped to 200 in… Read more »
Well done to Gareth Callan and Colm Flynn who performed in Claregalway GAA Club’s Strictly Come Dancing on the 29th of January. We were delighted to have them representing Coláiste Bhaile Chláir. Coláiste Bhaile Chláir and the Beo Digital Schools’ Archive Project, NUIG Coláiste Bhaile Chláir are proud to announce their partnership with Beo Digital Schools’ Archive Project, NUI… Read more »
Coláiste Bhaile Chláir throws out the textbooks to embrace whole new era Claregalway’s Corporate Park doesn’t look like the most obvious base for one of the country’s newest and most progressive secondary schools. A relic of the Celtic Tiger, you drive past the rows of large units, many of which are vacant—and at the rear of all… Read more »
Construction work is to start at the end of this month, or early next month, on the 23-classroom extension to Claregalway’s Coláiste Bhaile Chláir. This has been confirmed to The Tuam Herald by the school’s principal, Alan Mongey. “The final details regarding the purchase of the site were completed on December 6th and it will be… Read more »
A Claregalway school is celebrating this week after two of its students scooped one of the top awards at this year’s BT Young Science Exhibition. In what was a double success for Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, Alaidh Fox from Corofin and Deirdre Hughes from Annaghdown were honoured for a device they have developed to help blind or… Read more »
Well done to first year students Dylan Whelan and Jennifer Hughes winners of the first year race. 36 boys from Coláiste Bhaile Chláir competed in the St Marys invitational cross country event held on Wednesday the 16th of December. Our minor boys came first in a very competitive race against students from ten different schools…. Read more »
