Mental Health Sculpture
( Friday 18th May, 2012 ) Images of the Awards Night for the Mental Health Sculpture
Past Pupil attends Olympics
( Thursday 17th May, 2012 ) Keeping Ireland's Olympians in shape Aidan Woods Aidan Woods would love to have competed in the Olympics, but being the Irish athletes’ physio is as good as...
Monaghan Sports Partnership
( Tuesday 15th May, 2012 ) Several boys participated in enjoyable sporting activities organized by Monaghan Sports Partnership at lunch break in the sports hall...and were rewarded with a goodie bag.
Careers Day
( Friday 11th May, 2012 ) The Careers Day event was very well attended by students from St. Macartan's and other schools in the vicinity . Representatives from Colleges and Local Business, together with Governme...
The Sean Lemass Awards Ceremony
( Thursday 10th May, 2012 ) 5th year students Aaron Grew and David Stirrat pictured with their Enterprise teacher, Ms.S. McColgan and Principal, Mr. R. McHugh at the Sean Lemass Awards ceremony on 10/5/12 at the...
I.S.P.C.C. National Anti-Bullying Awareness Week
( Friday 27th April, 2012 ) Senior and Junior students all took part in an anti-bullying awareness programme with a particular emphasis on the topic of cyberbullying and how best to deal with this is...
Give It Up For Trocaire
( Monday 9th April, 2012 ) Twenty-five students from first to fifth year participated in the Trocaire ‘Give it up for 24hrs’ Campaign which took place on 8th March. On that day they were cha...
Ulster Colleges All Star 2012
( Saturday 31st March, 2012 ) Ulster Colleges 2012 All Star Mel Boyce with Ard Stiurthoir Paraic Duffy and Ulster Colleges chairman Seamus Meehan
Mental Health Sculpture
( Thursday 29th March, 2012 ) The students in Transition Year Art Class are busy preparing a sculpture titled: Living Life To The Full in 2012 for the Inter Schools Mental Health Art Competition. ...........
Sem Dalton Victory
( Tuesday 20th March, 2012 ) The St. Macartan’s College Dalton Cup team made it two wins out of two in this year’s to ensure qualification to the knock-out stages of the competition. ‘The Sem’ prev...
Winners of the 2008 Spirid na Scoile Award, the students who travelled to Ethiopia and their teachers Ms. Mc Aree, Ms. O' Hagan and the chairperson of the Board of Management Fr. Shane Mc Caughey.
Ethiopia the trip of a lifetime.
Ten Transition Year students and two teachers Ms. Mc Aree and Ms. O’Hagan had a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend almost two weeks in Ethiopia to experience the country and the missionary work of past pupil Fr. John Skinnader’s in the Arba Minch and Dimeka regions of Ethiopia. This trip was the brainchild of Ms. Mc Aree who proposed the idea of bringing a group of students to a developing country to the St. Macartan’s College Catholic School Committee last year.
After spending a short time acclimatising in Addis Adada the group set of on an arduous journey over rough terrain to visit Fr. John’s work in the Gatse region. The time in this region was followed some days later by time spent with the Hammer people. These truly special people welcomed their guests with open arms and put on a display of local customs, food and dance.
Fundraising before the trip raised an incredible €41,000 for Fr. Skinnader’s work in Ethiopia. After visiting the projects the students decided that the monies would be allocated in the Arba Minch area to a food safety programme, a programme for marginalised people, the renovation of accommodation for aid personnel, a widows farm project and ongoing educational support for an 8 year old orphan. Projects supported in the Dimeka region included a contribution towards the purchase and installation of a solar pump for an irrigation system, a contribution towards the upgrade of a non-formal education centre, a contribution towards the re-building of a reservoir and towards the installation of a solar system.
In a letter to the College, Fr. John thanked the people of the Monaghan parishes and from further afield for their generosity. He stated that the money donated will contribute tremendously to the overall growth and development of Ethiopian society and to the missionaries who are privileged to live among the Ethiopian people.
The complete group in Dimeka
