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The best of luck to Ryan Butler as he jets off to Qatar for the U17 Soccer World Cup 2025!⚽🇮🇪🇶🇦🏆 As you know, Ryan was selected for the squad this year. He is the first person in FCJ to make an Ireland soccer squad and we are hugely proud of him. Along with this, it is the first time Ireland has qualified for the World Cup at this age level!👏 To celebrate Ms L Kenny made him his own personalised Ireland cake!☘🎂![]()
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The World Cup starts on the 3rd November and Ireland's first game is the 5th November. In our group we play; Panama, Uzbekistan and Paraguay🇵🇦🇺#worldcupl#fai #lecheileschoolstrustt#COYBIGOYBIG
DON'T FORGET - The FCJ Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal is nearly upon us - AND WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!🎅🏼🫵🆘 This an annual campaign where thousands of people across Ireland donate shoeboxes filled with gifts for children affected by poverty in Africa or Eastern Europe. It is an opportunity to share a little joy and excitement with children who live in circumstances where these can often be in short supply🎄😊![]()
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To build your box at home you’ll need to wrap a shoe box in colourful paper, fill it with items for a child and then drop it off at our school office. A donation of €5 to cover the costs associated with getting your box to a child is required to be left in the box🎁![]()
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We ask you not to include scary or war related items, liquids, large clothes or food (other than sweets!)🍬🍭🍫 ![]()
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The deadline to get your boxes to us is THURSDAY 6th November. Please feel free to share this post and spread not only the word, but the joy of Christmas to so many that deserve it!⛄❄️😁
Believe it or not, FCJ has scored a hat-trick!🥳 FOR THE 3RD YEAR IN A ROW, FCJ HAS HAD A NAUGHTON SCHOLARSHIP WINNER!!!🥇🤩 This year it was, Sarah Byrne!!!🏆![]()
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Last Saturday, our Principal, Mr Daly, had the privilege of representing our school in Trinity College Dublin. To give a bit of context here, there were 38 Naughton winners this year, taken from over 1000 applications!📝![]()
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Another wildly impressive fact is that Sarah’s sister, Mary Byrne, won this same award in 2023! You may remember that last year Danny Fitzhenry secured the scholarship👏![]()
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Also in photos here is Professor Kevin Whelan, lecturer in Notre Dame and proud past student of FCJ Bunclody. He spoke at our 6th Year Graduation in 2023 and presented our History award to Mary Byrne!👨🏫 And get this, Mary also won the UCD Scholar Award recently for the top result in her year in Physics🔬 What a family! With them here are their proud parents Pat and Caitriona😁 Sarah received special mention for her brilliant essay on sustainability as part of her application!🌍![]()
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#naughtonscholarship #trinitycollegedublin #universitycollegedublin #TCD #UCD #highachievers #topoftheclass #lecheileschoolstrust #notredame #fcj #fcjbunclody
Considering the election is tomorrow, here’s a special THROW BACK THURSDAY to when Mary met Marie Madeleine. Yes, that being the at-the-time President of Ireland, Mary McAleese!🇮🇪🤩📸![]()
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What a major coup and privilege to have what has proven to be one of the most influential and popular European figure heads walk our corridors and converse with our staff, FCJ Sisters and students!🏫🎓![]()
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Anyone that was here at the time recalls the pure excitement (And pandemonium) that ensued as George and David gave everything a ‘lick of paint’, Sr Madeleine and an army of students got the flower beds in order outside the convent and teachers booked in for a cut and blow dry, while making sure to get their best rig outs sorted before the big day!🎨🌷👔![]()
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As always, get tagging if you recognise anyone!👀![]()
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#uachtarán #eire #lecheileschoolstrust #MaryMcAleese #president #fcjsistersireland #fcjsisters #lecheileschoolstrust #ThrowbackThursday #TBT
Sports Round Up!🏀🏈🏒🏸![]()
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First up, the other day we had a huge number of students taking part in the Leinster Schools Golf Competition in Courtown!🏌 Usually we have 2 or 3 students involved in this, however this year we had almost 25!! What a great opportunity for these budding golfers and what a great mentor they have in Mr Deane who coordinates the activity here and accompanies the lads to the competitions!⛳![]()
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Next our senior camogie girls were out last Thursday against Presentation Convent Wexford, where FCJ secured the win and again on Monday against Colaiste Brid Enniscorthy, which ended in a draw!⚾️![]()
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Also, Ruby McGrath was awarded her black belt in Taekeondo on Sunday after 11 years of commitment and dedication to her club Leinster Taekwondo. She has been to 3 World Championships and multiple All Ireland Championships. Well done, Ruby!🥋![]()
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Tyler O’Connor from Aidan 1 is pictured here wearing his darts jersey with all his personal sponsors! Tyler is competing in the World Championships in November! Best of luck, Tyler!🎯![]()
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Finally two local clubs had success last weekend. First was the Bunclody Camogie team who won the intermediate final. Along with a huge number of past students, current students included; Grace Foley, Leah Wall, Megan Murphy and Taylor Travers. Also a great photo of lads from the Kilrush Askamore U16s that won the Division 4 Cup Final🏆
The FCJ Team Hope Christmas Shoebox Appeal is nearly upon us - AND WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!🎅🏼🫵🆘 This an annual campaign where thousands of people across Ireland donate shoeboxes filled with gifts for children affected by poverty in Africa or Eastern Europe. It is an opportunity to share a little joy and excitement with children who live in circumstances where these can often be in short supply🎄😊![]()
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To build your box at home you’ll need to wrap a shoe box in colourful paper, fill it with items for a child and then drop it off at our school office. A donation of €5 to cover the costs associated with getting your box to a child is required to be left in the box🎁![]()
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We ask you not to include scary or war related items, liquids, large clothes or food (other than sweets!)🍬🍭🍫 ![]()
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The deadline to get your boxes to us is THURSDAY 6th November. Please feel free to share this post and spread not only the word, but the joy of Christmas to so many that deserve it!⛄❄️😁
Last week we celebrated Maths Week 2025 with a Daily Maths Quiz in the canteen at breaktime! ➕➖✖️➗ Each day, students tackled two tricky maths problems and one estimation challenge🤔📝 From guessing the number of steps between the Mr Daly's Office and the gym to adding up the shoe sizes of our Year Deans and even estimating the combined ages of our Principal and Deputy Principals!👣👞🚶📏![]()
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We had fantastic participation all week, with plenty of creative guesses and some very impressive maths skills on display! Congratulations to our 8 student winners, who each won a free lunch, and to the 4 teachers winners who joined in the fun too!👨🏻🎓👨🏻🏫👏![]()
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Our student winners were:⬇💯![]()
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6th Year - Oisin Finn & Aoife Byrne✅![]()
5th Year - Robyn Conway & Joey Whelan✅![]()
TY - Annie Kavanagh & Sarah Murphy✅![]()
3rd Year - Marvis Chisom Moses✅![]()
2nd Year - Yutong Wang✅
Our Transition Years recently experienced their retreat🧘🕯 The theme was 'a problem shared is a problem halved' 🙌 They looked at how faith can support us in times of worry, stress and anxiety and used the surrender prayer to share their burdens with God🕊 Then they got to experience a breath work session, mindfulness tips and a sound bath with Bernadette from Sundara Self#lecheileschoolstrusth#fcjsistersf#sundaraselfcareraselfcare
Some brilliant photos from the biggest careers fair in this corner of Ireland. And yes, it was ours, the FCJ Careers Fair 2025!👷👮🧑⚕️🧑🌾🧑🏫🧑💼🧑🔧🧑🏭🧑💻📸🤩![]()
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The event was hosted by FCJ Bunclody, offering our students an unparalleled opportunity to explore a wide array of career paths. Organised by Ms Ciara Kenny, the school guidance counsellor, the event attracted Transition Year, 5th, and 6th Year students, along with parents eager to support their children’s future plans🎓🤔![]()
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The career fair featured an impressive mix of exhibitors including colleges from across the country, PLC colleges, apprenticeship providers, businesses, and professionals from diverse fields,truly ensuring there was something for everyone📚✏️![]()
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Adding to the excitement, O’Neills Dry Cure Bacon Company generously sponsored a live broadcast by South East Radio from the venue, capturing the electric atmosphere as students navigated from stand to stand, soaking up advice and information🎙📻🥓🐷![]()
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A massive thanks to Ms C Kenny, the O'Neill family and every exhibitor that made this such a brilliant occasion for the students of our school!👏![]()
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#fcjcareersfair2025 #oneillsdrycurebacon #southeastradio #lecheileschoolstrust
Other Media
The HSE Visits FCJ Bunclody – Staying Safe in School
Christmas Prayer Service – December 2020
Enrolment/Open Day Video – October 2020
Graduation Speeches for the 6th Year Class of 2020
Our Lockdown Art Gallery
National Modern Foreign Language Award Winner 2020
“Par ma moustache!”
May Awards & Mass – 2019
‘Grease’ The Musical – 2019
