We were delighted to welcome back our past pupil and MacRory/Hogan cup winner Oisin Smyth this afternoon. Oisin is the current captain of
@DgnSwifts
and has been recently capped by
@IrishFA
under 21 squad. We are immensely proud of him.
Planning Application: SUCCESS!
We are absolutely delighted to announce to everyone associated with the school community of St Ronan’s College that our planning application for our new school build was APPROVED this evening by the Planning Committee at ABC Council 🥳
Proud of all our players, management and supporters tonight, fantastic achievement! Great game from
@stpatsarmagh
it could of went either way
@ulsterschools
Work begins on £30m rebuild of St Ronan’s College in Lurgan
St Ronan’s College in Lurgan has started the first phase of works on the largest single school project being supported by the Department of Education in Northern Ireland this year.
This Sunday is a historic day for two of our local GAA clubs as
@aghagallongaa
and
@ClannEireann1
contest their respective county finals. Eunan Walsh and Tiarnan Kelly were in school today to pass on some advice to year 8 pupils Liam Davey and Ethan Casey.
It was a pleasure to welcome our past pupils from
@eireann1910
to recognise their
@Armagh_GAA
senior championship win last Sunday with a special assembly. Thanks to the canteen staff for providing refreshments.
There will be a guard of honour assembling on Francis Street at 4:30pm to welcome our victorious MacRory Cup team. All welcome to join in on the celebrations!
@ulsterschools
Less than 24 hours to go!!
Our MacRory Cup Champions play Pobascoil Chorca Dhuibhne in the Hogan Cup Semi-final at Abbotstown, Co Dublin!
Throw-in 2pm 🇱🇻🏐😃🚍
All support would be greatly appreciated!!
Good luck to all involved!
#Col
áisteRónáinAbú
“An rud is annamh is iontach” roughly translates as what is seldom is wonderful. It really is a wonderful weekend for GAA in our locality as St. Mary’s Aghagallon and Clann Eireann contest their respective county senior football finals. Good luck to you all.
Congratulations to all our students from Clan Na Gael and Clann Eireann that were involved in this week's historic county final. A first all Lurgan final since 1968
St Ronan’s College wish
@ArmaghLGFA
all the best against Dublin in the All-Ireland Semi Final tomorrow at 4.30pm.
A special word of congratulations for getting this far and Good Luck goes to our past pupils
Chloe Magill, Tiarna Grimes, Niamh and Dearbhla Coleman!
A day of very mixed emotions for our school community. Commiserations to
@aghagallongaa
and congratulations to
@eireann1910
. We are so proud of you all. Special mention to year 14 lads Declan Mallon and Oran McCafferty who won senior medals today.
It’s
#MotivationalMonday
Joint Head of Government, Michelle O’Neill, has sent this message for all of us at St Ronan’s College as we begin Mental Health Awareness Week 2020.
Thanks
@moneillsf
for taking the time to do this for us! ✨
#TakingActionOnMentalHealth
It is with deep sadness that the school community at St Ronan's College learn of the death of our Year 11 pupil, Caoimhin Mallon.
We send our heartfelt sympathies to Caoimhin's family and friends at this sad time. St Ronan, pray for them.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.
All Ireland winning captain and currrent Armagh senior manager Kieran McGeeney be there, will you? Tickets for our GAA debate night on Thursday 14th October now on sale. See attached link
Congratulations to year 14 student Lara Marsden on being selected for the
@UlsterLadies
Schools All Stars. Lara is pictured with the Director of post 16 Mrs Bradley. Well done Lara, we are so proud of you!
What a super star 🌟 Aobh McGibbon 8EZ who picked up two 1st place and 3rd place awards at Armagh Speech and Drama Festival on Saturday, earning her the coveted award for BEST OVERALL ACTOR of the ENTIRE festival!
We are super excited and proud of Maitiú McGibbon (9CT) who is starring in a major Cinemagic Production coming to a cinema near you soon! Maitiú is starring as ‘Kanye’ in the upcoming ‘Grace & Goliath’ film, which will be released in October.
Good luck to our teaching assistant Miss Cora McGrath who will represent her club
@NaomhTreasa
in this Sunday’s All Ireland junior B camogie final. Good luck Cora.
Tiernan Kelly,
@Armagh_GAA
Star and member of the St Ronan's College squad which won the Macrory Cup and Hogan Cup in 2018 supporting our Cow Clap FUNdraiser
Good luck to the Armagh management team and squad travelling to Tralee this weekend.
Exciting news. Appointment of the IST. The procurement and tender process is now complete. The contract has been offered to and accepted by Glasgiven Contracts Ltd. We look forward to working with Glasgiven on our new College campus. See video link below.
Congratulations to Aobh McGibbon 8EZ who is starring in a new movie called ‘Overnight’. We wish her good luck as she heads to Dublin this weekend for the recording. 🤞🥇🏆
Principal Mrs Corkey congratulates Mrs Caoimhe Devlin who was commended at the NI Head First awards for championing young people’s Mental Health in St Ronan’s College. Well done Mrs Devlin!
We had huge staff sporting success over the weekend. Miss Marley was awarded an Irish News all star. Mr Hanratty completed the Barcelona IronMan competition and Mr Taggart and Mr Smyth finished the London Marathon in very impressive times.
#rolemodels
Past pupil Shea Heffron, who holds 2 All-Star Ulster Colleges awards, is the captain of the Queen's University Sigerson Cup team this year. He is pictured alongside the QUB sponsor representative from Kingspan.
Congratulations to Evie McCafferty (year 11) who was recently selected for the NI under 17 Netball squad. The squad are preparing for the European Championships in February.
Congratulations to
@clannagael1922
who won the
@Armagh_GAA
minor league title tonight with a fine win over Crossmaglen. Great to see St. Ronan’s so well represented.
Best of luck to Tiarnan Cawley, Year 13 who has challenged himself to run 10k every day for 30 days for AWARE NI.
29 days to go - good luck with the rest of your challenge Tiarnan and well done
🏃♂️
#mentalhealthmatters
Massive congratulations to Orla Greer, Anna McConville, Janelle Rada & Hannah McCabrey who are the All Ireland Champions! The girls won Gold in the Freestyle relay and Bronze in the medley relay in the All Ireland Schools Gala! Well done to the girls and their coaches!
Today to mark the feast of St Ronan staff and representatives from our Student Leadership Team visited the maternity ward of Craigavon Hospital to present the mother and first baby born today with a special baby basket.
We are delighted to welcome back Niamh Coleman as our guest speaker for year 12 prize giving. Niamh is a proud past pupil of St. Ronan’s and
@TannaghmorePs
. She is currently teaching in St. Francis’.
We are delighted to have our first Young St.Vincent De Paul Society within our College who will lead both projects within our College and within the local community.
This approval represents a significant positive milestone on the critical path of our Building Programme. Thank you to all associated with our College in helping us reach this important milestone including our Project Board 👏👏
Following a short break our next speaker is Stephen Watson
@winkerwatson1
from
@BBCSPORTNI
with his inspirational story on ‘The Power of Giving’ and organ donation.
Congratulations to Meabh, Elisha, Dearbhla, Megan and Cait who have been awarded PPS All-Star Awards. Cait Towe was also selected to captain the squad who travel to Kinnegad this weekend to compete in the PPS All-Star Interprovincial Competition
Congratulations to Yr9 pupil, Hollie Nelson, who along with her family, recently raised a staggering £17, 339 for Air Ambulance Northern Ireland.
A fantastic achievement for a very worthy cause! Well done!
Some of our year 11 pupils got an opportunity to work with Colleen Connolly - inclusive Sports Officer,
@abcb_council
in the South Lakes Leisure Centre this morning as part of the PE programme
@disabilitysportni
@GetActiveABC
Congratulations to Megan McCann who travelled to Chicago to play in the USHA Junior National Four-Wall Championships, winning gold in the the small ball, big ball and doubles events. Well done Megan! 👍🏅😃
Well done to St Ronan's college Year 9 Basketballers who won Ulster Minor Boys C Final today on a scoreline of 22-12 against St Paul's Bessbrook
@QueensSport
in what was a very tough game! Well done to everyone involved! The boys also got to meet the Ireland Rugby team!🏆🏀😀
Huge congratulations to our Yr 13 LLS pupil Meaghan Woods on her Celtic International Boxing Championship win over the weekend. Fantastic achievement for Meaghan and her family.
Forget Karate Kid, forget Bruce Lee, forget Jackie Chan.. we have our very own Ju Jitsu Kid in Year 8. 🥋
A MASSIVE congratulations to Sean Campbell 8MR who achieved his black belt in Ju Jitsu on Saturday. An amazing and rare achievement for a person so young.
@StRonansYr8
Congratulates to our Year 13 student Lauren Wilson who as a member of NICCY will be attending a prestigious event in Genova on ’protecting and empowering children as human rights defenders’.
Well done to all our students who took part in the District Cross Country at Palace Stables today. Special congratulations to those who have qualified for the Ulster final. Training continues on Monday.
Our students and Lurgan College carried out a Shared Education GIS perception survey of Lurgan.
They were privileged to be joined by Anna Russel, a reporter from the New Yorker. Here is Anna's story, published just yesterday.
Best of luck to our Yr 14
@LLSonline
pupils taking part in their Global Coaching Assessment in Liverpool tomorrow. We hope they will be successful in securing summer coaching contracts in America and Sri Lanka 🇺🇸🇱🇰
Mrs Corkey presents our newly appointed Shared Education Ambassors, Maitiú Mc Gibbon and Naomi Smyth with their Shared Education Ambassador pins. We wish them much success in their new leadership role.
#Learning
Leaders.
Some photographs from last night’s production of “Sister Act: The Musical”. This has been a fantastic production. We are all very proud all our pupils involved.
Congratulations to our Year 12 pupil, Étain Devlin, who won Sportsperson of the Year at the Armagh I People of the Year Awards Cermony held at Armagh Planetarium and Observatory last night. A sports star at St Ronan’s College, Étain’s award is well-deserved. We’re so proud of you
What a life changing day for our Yr 14
@llsonline
pupils. Summer 2020 is going to be a summer to remember for Connie, Caelan, Chloe and Caitlin as they all gained contracts to coach in America and Canada 🇺🇸🇨🇦⚽🏀. Phenomenal effort guys.
Niamh McAliskey Yr14 Student and Head Girl recently organised her own Coffee Morning to raise funds for Children’s Cancer.Naimh presented her cheque today to Daisy Lodge a purpose-built therapeutic centre located in Newcastle Co. Down for families affected by cancer. Well done!
“Absolutely fantastic… brilliant… amazing….stunning”. These are some of the words used to describe Sister Act. The past three nights have been a fantastic showcase of the wonderful talent at St Ronan’s.
Congratulations to year 13 pupil Aoife McConville for her achievements at the Portadown festival this year. 9 cups in total including overall musician of the year and junior vocal championship. Well done Aoife on all your hard work.
We are so proud of Aoifé Brophy who represented all young women in engineering when speaking at the Royal College of Engineering launch event in Belfast today.
#womeninengineering
Huge congratulations to Cain Ferguson, Angela Loughran and James McCormack who got presented with their magnificent All-Star trophies and a very generous O’Neills voucher.
We are so lucky to have such wonderful pupils join us this year at St Ronan's.
Representatives from all our Primary Schools came together to write and record this amazing poem about their experience.
So sit back and enjoy, as they present "We Made It" to their friends in P7.
Replay Theatre Company, in partnership with
@Translink_NI
visited St Ronan's College and delivered their new show as part of their
#CrossingTheLines
rail safety project.
It was an excellent performance bringing important rail safety messages to all our KS3 pupils.
We are delighted to announce that St Ronan’s College won £1000 in
@nogginsport1
‘s
#BobbleMyNoggin
competition! 🤩🎉
The money will be donated to
@amhNI
- a fantastic charity carrying out vital work changing the lives of those living with mental ill heath!✨🌈
Good luck to the
@aghagallongaa
lads in the
@AontroimGAA
minor final tomorrow against
@StPaulsGAC
. St. Mary’s have a proud tradition of bringing great footballers to our school. This group are no different.
A few weeks ago this fabulous young super star Erin Moore 8EZ was selected for the N.I Netball Trials and guess what ..... she’s been chosen to represent the N.I Netball Team. Well done Erin. We are delighted with you. 🥇🏆
Megan, Lauren and Rebecca Gellately swam at the Ulster Secondary Schools Gala in Ballymena yesterday. Megan was 1st in the 100m Fly and 3rd in the 100m Breast! Well done girls! 🏊♂️🥇
#Col
áisteRónáinAbú
This announcement means that work can begin on the site in the coming weeks and we should take occupancy of the new College in the winter of 2023 ❤️💛💚
We are a significant step closer to the dream becoming a reality! 🥰
#restartaheartday
St Ronan's raised awareness today with 282 pupils receiving the opportunity to learn and practice the basic skills surrounding restarting a heart.
Big thanks to 13GM for promoting this event