Junior Ladies’ Footballers Advance to Munster Semi Final

Our Lady’s 2-13        Mount Mercy 3-1

On Friday 13^th January the Junior Ladies’ team travelled to Dr. Morris Park to play Mount Mercy, Cork City in the Munster Quarter Final. Although Friday 13^th is seen as an unlucky day the girls from Templemore ignored the myth and made light work of the challenge from the rebel county.

Templemore started at a high tempo and continued this throughout the game only conceding one score in the first half,  a goal which was half saved by keeper Rachel Thorpe. Templemore had a lot of possession in the first half and at half time were leading on a score of 0-10 to 1-0 with Templemore’s scores coming from Ciara O’Toole 0-3, Niamh Treacy 0-3, Elaine Fitzpatrick 0-2, Sarah Buckley 0-1 and Niamh Kennedy 0-1.

In the second half we continued to increase our lead with further scores from Ciara O’Toole 2-2 and Kate Cashman 0-1. Although Mount Mercy did score 2-1 in the second half, Templemore were never in danger of being caught and finished the game at a comfortable pace.

Our Lady’s now face Presentation Secondary, Milltown, Co. Kerry. The game will take place in the last week of January. We wish the team and their coach, Ms Caroline O’ Hara well in this game.

Victory for Concern Debating Team

Well done to the Concern debating team who recorded their first unanimous win in the competition this year when they successfully proposed the motion that “Genitically modified food is necessary in  the fight against world hunger”. The opposition was Nenagh C.B.S..  Our Lady’s team consisted to Tommy Mallen, Niamh Kennedy, Aoife Loughnane and Yvonne Meehan.  Unfortunately, due to the results of earlier rounds, we do not qualify for the knockout stages. However, this success will give encouragement for the future. Well done to the team and to their coach Ms Martina Butler Young.

DAT’s Test

On Thursday, third year students  sat the DATs or Differential Aptitude Test under the Guidance of Acting Guidance Counsellor, Ms Karen Starr. The resusts of these tests provide valuable assistance to students in their choice of  Leaving Cert subjects and career paths in the future. Thanks to Ms Starr and Mr Paul Fogarty who arranged the tests.

Rice Cup

Rice cup training began in earnest this week under the direction of Mr. Seamus Bourke and Mr. Tom Byrnes.  Following victory in the Corn Ui Chathain and Croke  Cup,  the panel will be hoping to advance to the knockout stages of this competition but realise that getting this far will involve a lot of hard work and a bit of luck too. A number of challenges games have been arranged for the coming weeks.