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In February 2017, Cailin Creamer, a first year student in Nenagh College, decided to enter the highly competitive Junior Eurovision.  This competition is sponsored by TG4 and seeks to find Ireland’s entry for Junior Eurovision.  The overall winner will travel to Georgia in November 2017 to compete against other European countries.

In the first heat, Cailin had to travel to Cork and sing two songs of her own choosing.  The judges really liked her voice and without hesitation put her through to Round 2.

Cailin was then faced with the task of composing and performing an original song in Irish. For this she enlisted the help and expertise of fellow students, teachers in school and musician friends – Denis Carey and Anthony Monaghan – to write an original song as Gaeilge.  With this task completed,  Cailin travelled to Dublin for her audition.  Again, the judges were impressed by what they heard.  Cailin quickly got a call telling her she was through to the live TV heats.

On Monday 15th May Cailin will take part in the first of the live competitive heats.  This will be recorded in RTE’s Donny brook studios to be broadcast at a later date.

We wish Cailin the very best of luck. We hope she enjoys the experience.  We are very proud of a most unassuming and highly talented young lady as she represents her school and parish.

Nenagh College is supporting Coláiste Pobail Roscrea in an exciting and innovative fund raising venture. The Cré Festival is happening on Sunday next, 30th April and is headlined by a number of exciting acts such as The Riptide Movement and The Stunning. Tickets will be on sale in the Nenagh College Canteen on Wednesday 26th April from 11.00 a.m.

Ella McMahon, a student at Nenagh College pictured attending the World Taekwondo Conference which was held in the school on Sunday 9th April.

Happy Easter from all of the Staff and Students at Nenagh College.

On behalf of all the staff and students, we would thank everyone involved in the Active School Week in Nenagh College. A special thank you to Mr. Liam Heffernan who coordinated the organisation of the weeks activities. From basketball, football, self defence, zumba dancing and a community walk to name but a few activities, there was a wide range of events over the past week our students and wider community participated in. Mr. Heffernan is pictured here presenting a cheque for €1400 to Patricia Quinn of the Nenagh Special Summer Camp.

On the final day of the Nenagh College active week, first year student Sorcha O’Mahony won an Easter Hamper during our school assembly.

Over the past week, students in Nenagh College took part in a footstep challenge to see who could walk the greatest distance. At the end of the week, with the assistance of our teachers and TY students, the results were recorded from students smartphones. Well done to second year student Aidan Dillon who won the active week competition.

Well done to Emma Carey and Sarah Slattery on achieving the Silver Gaisce Award. They are pictured here with their teacher Ms. Carey.

Well done to our to both Charlie and Dorin’s teams for a brilliant game.

Congratulations to all students who took part in indoor soccer tournament as part of the Active Week