Holy Rosary College Mountbellew

Best of luck to all of our Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle students who start their State Exams tomorrow 🕯️🙏👏

Caoimhe Phelan Senior School All Ireland 3km race walker Champion 2026 in a new pb of 14.40 with 18 seconds off her Connaught schools pb time .

Massive congratulations to our own Caoimhe Phelan who won a gold medal in the All Ireland Schools Finals representing HRC in the 300m walk race . These photos capture the sheer elation at the finish line- a great achievement for Caoimhe.

Best of luck to LC student Tiarnan Lohan and former student Jonah Donnellan who are part of the Galway U20 hurling squad that take on Clare in the U20 All Ireland Final tomorrow.
Throw in at 2pm in FBD Semple Stadium,Thurles.

National Famine Commemoration.

The National Famine Commemoration 2026 was held last week at a most appropriate setting of Portumna Workhouse. As part of the lead up to the final State event on Sunday last, there were eight days of various activities hosted at the workhouse.
Prior to this national event, which will be televised, Emma Laffey gave a talk to some First Year students and they wrote their reflections on the famine and submitted them to her. Emma, in conjunction with Marie Mannion of Galway Heritage, got pull-up posters printed which are now displayed in HRC and also in Portumna Workhouse, which is a great honour for our students. Pictured are Ms Costello’s First Year Class with Emma Laffey and Ms Carr.

On Saturday 16th May, our talented TY Mock Trials team headed back up to the Criminal Courts of Justice to compete in the Semi finals of the national competition. They performed extremely well and we are very proud of their talent and work ethic. It has been a marvellous experience, and performing in the real criminal courts has given them a real experience of law at its best!

Best of luck to all our Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle students who start their exams next week.
Please inform yourself with the details on the attached picture and video link ahead of your exams commencing.

One of the final trips of our academic year- Art Trip to Galway with our 5th year art class.

Well done to Amy Morris 2nd year who was selected at goalkeeper for the McKeever Super 9s All-Star team. The tournament was played in late April in the Meath Centre of Excellence and was hosted by Loreto College Navan.
The girls enjoyed a great day and were very competitive in all their games eventually losing out in the shield semi final. Well done again Amy.