THE COUNTY FINAL

Match report compiled by Conor McCausland and Ciara Lee from Mr. O’ Connor’s 6th class.

The county final turned out to be an outstanding game on Sunday for Portlaoise Senior team. It was a tight game throughout, but the town pulled it out of the bag. It meant that O`Dempsey’s were in hard luck though.

As both teams came out onto the pitch their supporters cheered them loudly. As Morris Degan threw in the ball O’ Dempsey’s went on the attack. The attack was stopped by Cahir Healy and Gareth Dylan with the help of Kieran Lillis. The ball was then passed to Ciarán McEvoy and nicely put over the bar. Then the O’Dempsey keeper kicked it out and it was caught by Kieran Lillis.

Further into the game Portlaoise scored 2 goals and ran out winners by 7 points. Even though it was Portlaoise’s 11th year winning, O’Dempseys put up a great fight against Portlaoise and they can be very proud of themselves.

On monday the Portlaoise team brought the trophies to our school and met with the 5th and 6th classes.

Maybe the players will have inspired the pupils to play football or indeed any sport that they are thinking of trying

WELL DONE THE TOWN!!!

Ms. O’ Hara’s Class Light Up Amber Flag Day!

Game of Two-Halves at Holy Family World Cup Final

Last Friday saw the final of the Holy Family World Cup. It was played out on the Edmund Rice field in glorious sunshine. Both teams who made the final played extremely well to make it to the showpiece event. The teams, Portugal and France,  were cheered on by the entire school who lined the sidelines to offer fantastic support. The crowd were treated to a hard fought and exciting game. Both teams gave their all and things were extremely tight at 0-0 going into half time. However, the second half saw a change in momentum as France turned on the style to secure a hard fought victory of Portugal to secure the Holy Family World Cup 2018.

At the awards ceremony Mr. Malone commented on the dedication shown by all the teams and players who turned up after school to play in the competition.

Individual awards were presented to the best boy and girl player of the tournament. Kacper (Mr. Finn’s Class) was the winner of the boys award while Victoria (Ms. Redmond’s Class) picked up the prize for best girl player. Well done to both.

A word of thanks to Mr. Malone who organised the tournament and refereed the final. Thanks also to Mr. O’ Shea and Mr. Gavin who were referees throughout the tournament.

Latest Edition of the Student’s Council Newsletter

The student’s council have been hard at work again and have their newsletter available from their section of the website. It can also be found by clicking the following link. Well done to the council on putting together another issue and thanks again to Ms. Redmond for compiling and editing the newsletter.

Student’s Council Newsletter