Our Transition Years put on an amazing production of ‘Guys & Dolls’ on March 13th, 14th and 15th. The students along with the girl’s from Santa Sabina thrilled audiences for three nights with a colourful all singing, all dancing knockout performance! Well done to all involved for the huge undertaking of putting on this show. Check out our gallery of images showcasing the production below:
Massive congratulations to the whole Performing Arts Team for the amazing opening night of this year’s TY Musical, Guys & Dolls. It was a fantastic opening night last night. Here’s to two more successful performances tonight and on Saturday night. Photo gallery to follow ….
Our Transition Year musical ‘Guys & Dolls’ is in final rehearsals before opening night next Thursday the 13th of March. The show promises to be as fantastic as ever as our guys and dolls dance and sing their way through 1930’s New York. Tickets are on sale now and will be on sale for the first 15 minutes of lunchtime for the rest of this and early next week. €10 for students & €15 for adults!
Today marks the start of Chinese New Year. The school has been decorated to represent The Year of the Snake this year and we will be celebrating Chinese New Year with lots of events planned for February the 7th. Follow our padlet link below for lots of information and activities to celebrate and Happy Chinese New Year to all! https://padlet.com/connie_davenport/chinese-new-year-2025-exaquwnvvfeg7tnu
We’re just about nearly ready to head off on Christmas Holidays. Well done to all of our students for all of the hard work completed this term! Wishing all students, staff and their families a very Happy and Restful Christmas! 1st Year Art 1st Year Art 1st Year Art 1st Year Art 1st Year Art
A selection of some of the great work done by our Art students this term. We started the year with a surreal still life installation encouraging students to engage creatively with primary source objects and to practice their observational drawing skills. 2nd & 5th Year students took the surreal inspiration into sculpture projects following the same theme! 6th Year Theme Exploration Still Life Drawing 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture Still Life Drawing Still Life Drawing Still Life Drawing 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture Still Life Drawing 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture 2nd Year Surreal Sculpture Still Life Drawing 6th Year Theme Exploration Still Life Drawing
Today was the start of ‘Stand Up & Be You Week’. The school has been decorated with colourful displays and posters emphasizing the message of how important it is to Stand Up & Be Yourself! We kicked off the week today with music, intercom announcement and the start of voting for our ‘Tie-Dye Your Teacher’ event is well underway! In a very exciting initiative, we re-launched our ‘Cairde sa Chúirt’ Room with a great buzz of students enjoying cupcakes and hot drinks out in the yard on a gorgeously sunny November afternoon. A massive amount of work from students and teachers has gone into making this ‘home away from home’ room a wonderful facility for our students to relax and unwind. Our ‘Cairde sa Chúirt’ room will be open at lunchtimes all this week and every Monday at lunchtime from then on.. Stay tuned for more updates on events to come this week
Wishing all Students, Staff and their families a FRIGHTENINGLY well deserved Mid-Term Break. Have a great relaxing time CHILLING out!!! Check out our gallery of X-Ray skeleton hands done by our 1st Year Art Group!
Our 1st Year Art Class have enjoyed a wonderful day painting oil landscapes with artist Ann Daly for our Creative Engagement Project with NAPD. The results from the day are fantastic and and we can see some great emerging painting talent from this class! Well done to all!
Huge congratulations to our Transition Years on their fantastic production of ‘Beauty & The Beast’ which had it’s final run on Saturday night. Congratulations also to our TY Entrepreneurs and 2nd Year Entrepreneurs for their impressive results at the Fingal Final of the Student Enterprise Awards (report to follow). Lot’s happening this week as we lead in to Easter Holidays. In sport, our Senior Hurlers will play against Aidan’s Community College today and Transition Years and 5th Years will take part in a Hurling Blitz in DCU tomorrow! Also tomorrow, 2nd Years will take part in the All-Ireland Badminton Finals, best of luck to all competing! On Thursday, Aidan’s 3 will visit Dáil Eireann and 2nd Year Hurlers play Coláiste Eoin. All of our 5th Years will attend a campus tour of UCD on Friday and our 1st Year Gaelic Football team will play Donabate.
This week, we celebrate our founder, Blessed Edmund Rice whose feast day was on Monday, May 5th! We honour and give thanks for the life of Blessed Edmund Rice. His feast day is a time to celebrate his unselfish work for others. Edmund Rice had a great love for all of creation. We pray for our planet and for communities across the world as we unite to live in harmony with allof creation. Blessed Edmund faced personal pain during his own life and showed resilience and great faith in God. He lived through the challenging times of revolution, the Napoleonic war and famine. Today we pray for all those in Ukraine, Russia and across the world who are suffering because of war or violence. Guímid ar son na síochána san Úcráin, sa Rúis agus ar fud an domhain. Edmund welcomed people from manycountries into the port city of Waterford. He extended the hand of friendship and helped people find work so they could start a a new life. Today we offer sanctuary in our schools and across Ireland and welcome those displaced by war and seeking refuge. We celebrate his Life, Love, Spirituality and Charism. We give thanks for his vision and mission, the raising up of the poor and the oppressed to be pillars ofChrist’s presence in our world.
All Star Basketball 2025 is coming this Friday!! Doors open at 13:55 with Team Broderick and Team Kinsella going head to head in what promises to be a very exciting and colourful tournament ! Last tickets available for sale in the the cafeteria tomorrow!
This Saturday, we are walking in support of Darkness Into Light for Pieta House to help people impacted by suicide and self-harm. Please make a donation through our fundraising page to support and bring hope to people in crisis, thank you!
A group of Transition Year students are enjoying a cultural trip top Barcelona. More pics to follow!
“Well done to the Junior Tennis Team on their first group stage match of the season. The boys had a fabulous day at Wesley College.” Team Gavin Murphy, Liam Iaccarino, Tim Lavin, Gerry Loughney, Michael Patton, Jack Tierney and Charlie Bredican.
Well done to all of our students and staff who ran and walked yesterday on a gloriously sunny day for our special fundraising event for 6th Year student, Alex McEleney who is bravely battling through his fourth bout of cancer. A huge thank you to all who have donated so far. An amazing €12,057 has already been raised which is fantastic! All funds raised will go towards Alex and his family. Donations are still welcome on gofundme.com – St. Fintan’s High School, Sutton – Run & Walk for Alex
Our annual Ladies Lunch is on Friday the 16th of May in St. Anne’s Golf Club. This is a wonderful event in our school calendar and a great opportunity for teachers and parents to get together for some fun and relaxation, while also raising much needed funds for the school. Tickets can be purchased by clicking on the following link: https://way2pay.org/BuyTickets/aid/947csrt=15482052191245359049.
Well done to the Senior Tennis Team! Great day out at Castleknock College on Monday the 28th of April. Team also includes Matthew Loughney, Matthew Hickey and Nathan Hann.
Happy Easter to all students, staff and their families as we break for a much deserved Easter Break. Here’s to a sun filled rest over the next two weeks in advance of our last term. Best of luck to all 6th Years in their French Orals taking place this weekend.
Congratulations to our new Head Boy Kenan Lackovic, new Deputy Head Boys, Michael Bolger and Darragh O’Sullivan and our team of newly appointed prefects. We wish them every success in helping lead the school forward over the coming year.
“Well done to the Minor Tennis Team who won their first tennis match in the Leinster School Boy’s tennis tournament. The match was played at Leinster Cricket Club. This is a huge achievement for the students in their First Year at St. Fintan’s High School and we wish them the very best of luck with the rest of the tournament. We hope to see the students playing during the Easter holidays as they prepare for the rest of their group stage matches.”
With the arrival of the warm weather, we have seen lots of great action from our Tennis teams! “Well done to the Senior Tennis Team who won their first match in the Leinster School Boy’s Tennis tournament. We wish them the very best of luck with their group stage matches. We have tennis teams competing in the Minor and Junior section and we hope to continue the success of previous years in this very prestigious schools league” Senior Tennis Team: Logan Prendergast, Michael Bolger, Ben Kennedy, Marcel Haas, Ciarán McKenna, Cillian Motherway, Cillian Bredican and Andrew L’Estrange. Keep an eye out for more updates on matches soon!
Our Transition Years have recently returned from their French leg of our French Exchange Programme. They enjoyed a great week interacting with, experiencing school, activities and home life with our French students in Lyon. Enjoy our photo gallery below of the trip!
The Dublin Senior A schools final took place in a sunny and breezy O’ Toole Park on Wednesday 27th March. It was a repeat of the final from 2024 pitting Terenure College against the holders, St Fintan’s High School from Sutton. Terenure started brightly with the aid of the strong breeze with centre forward Paul O Connor getting three early points. St Fintan’s responded in kind with points from Cathal Barrett and Daniel Moore. Both teams had good goal chances thwarted in the opening ten minutes with both goalkeepers pulling off smart saves. A green flag was finally raised when St Fintan’s centre forward Barrett got on the end of a long clearance that broke past the full back line and emphatically finished to the net. This gave the northsiders a 1-3 to 0-3 lead after 12 minutes. Terenure thundered back into the game then and had their purple patch for the next ten minutes turning a 3 point deficit into a 4 point lead on 24 minutes. This was led by Daniel O’ Kelly and Tommy Crosby Dillon in their half back line getting on top of their counterparts. Midfielder Conor Quinn hit a huge point from distance while corner forward Oisin Costello hit 1-2 in this period. The goal coming after the St Fintan’s defence were turned over coming out with the ball. St Fintan’s were under pressure during this period and got a reprieve when corner forward Ben Kennedy pushed home a goal. He then repeated the trick a few minutes later to push St Fintan’s into the lead. This was supplemented by wing back Sam O’ Leary getting forward to clip a point. Terenure responded with Billy Shouldice hitting two good points from play. This left us at half time with St Fintan’s leading by two points on a scoreline of 3-7 to 1-11. Terenure will ultimately feel it was this second quarter that cost them as they gave away two goals and at the other end of the field they missed some easy scoring chances. The second half opened with St Fintan’s having the wind adavantage. Full forward Daniel Moore was beginning to exert a big influence scoring two early points. Centre forward Barrett was unerring from placed ball too in this period. Terenure responded gamely with points from O’ Connor, Costello and Declan Power. St Fintan’s were slowly beginning to get the upperhand and Ben Kennedy completed his hat trick getting on the end of a good team passing move. A long range point from corner back Matthew Clarke stretched the lead out to 8 points at the 45 minute mark. At this stage St Fintan’s were reduced to 14 men after midfielder Tom Beary recieved a second yellow card. Terenure pushed their captain O’Kelly into the attack in order to reel in lead. St Fintan’s defended stoutly in this period lead by Ronan Fitzpatrick and Conor Wilson as well as the Heffernan brothers, Darragh and Donnacha. Barrett punished any indiscipline in this period from placed balls scoring 1-4 from them in the final quarter. The goal coming from a quickly taken 21yard free. Terenure were kept fighting until the end and captain Daniel O Kelly finished the game with a well taken penalty that he won himself. Referee David Murphy blew the final whistle after that with St Fintan’s retaining their title on a scoreline of 5-20 to 2-16. Injured captain Joe Sheppard received the cup to the cheers of his team mates and supporters. Teams and scorers. Terenure College Harry Lynch (Ballyboden St Endas), Adam Gorman (Ballyboden St Endas), Luca O’ Reilly (Faughs), Cillian Noonan (Ballinteer St Johns), Tadhg Hutchinson (Ballyboden St Endas), Daniel O Kelly 1-0 pen (Commercials),Tommy Crosby Dillon ( Ballinteer St Johns), Cormac Quinn 0-2 (Ballinteer St Johns), Cathal Martin (St Judes), Billy Shouldice 0-2 (St Judes), Paul O’ Connor 0-8 0-6 frees (Faughs), Declan Power 0-1 (St Kevins), Joe Plunkett (St Judes), Alan Delaney (Ballyboden St Endas) Oisin Costello 1-3 (St Judes). Subs/Panel:Hugh O Neill (St Judes), Joe Clohessy (Ballyboden St Endas), Jack Ledwidge ( Round Towers Clondalkin), Mark Power (Ballinteer St Johns), Jack Walsh (Ballyboden St Endas), Conor Fitzgerald (Ballyboden St Endas), Sean Ringwood (Faughs), James Norris (Ballyboden St Endas) St Fintan’s High School. Padraigh Ryan (Naomh Barrog), Joseph Doherty (Raheny), Ronan Fitzpatrick (Binn Eidear), Matthew Clarke 0-1 ( Naomh Barrog), Sam O’ Leary 0-1 (Raheny), Darragh Heffernan (Naomh Barrog), Conor Wilson (O’ Tooles), Donnacha Heffernan (Naomh Barrog), Tom Beary (Raheny), Oscar Finnegan (Clontarf), Cathal Barrett 2-14, 1-11 frees (Trinity Gaels), Evan Coyne (Raheny), Conall Kenny (Clontarf), Daniel Moore 0-4 ( Naomh Barrog), Ben Kennedy 3-0 (Raheny) Subs/panel: Darragh O’ Sullivan (Raheny), Conor Gallagher (Naomh Barrog, Cillian Bradley (Binn Eidear), Leo Keane (Clontarf), Sean O Connell (St Vincents), Michael Bolger (Raheny), Cillian Bredican (Clontarf), Kyle Comerford (Naomh Barrog), Jack Wilson (Naomh Barrog), Darrag Wilkinson (Naomh Barrog), Sean Wilson (O’ Tooles), Charlie Given (Trinity Gaels), Joe Sheppard (Clontarf), Adam Ryan (Raheny), Cian Alexander (Naomh Barrog), Michael Clarke (Naomh Barrog), Thomas Judge (Raheny), Timo Tryhorn (Raheny), Shane Wallace (Naomh Barrog), Conor Callanan (Raheny), Brendan O Byrne (Raheny), Oisin Kelly (Naomh Barrog), Kevin Cotter (Naomh Barrog), Cathal Cavanagh (Naomh Barrog), Karl Doyle (Naomh Barrog)
Our Transition Years put on an amazing production of ‘Guys & Dolls’ on March 13th, 14th and 15th. The students along with the girl’s from Santa Sabina thrilled audiences for three nights with a colourful all singing, all dancing knockout performance! Well done to all involved for the huge undertaking of putting on this show. Check out our gallery of images showcasing the production below:
Massive congratulations to the whole Performing Arts Team for the amazing opening night of this year’s TY Musical, Guys & Dolls. It was a fantastic opening night last night. Here’s to two more successful performances tonight and on Saturday night. Photo gallery to follow ….
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