The Ashton Transition Year carried on a tradition of a 24-hr fast to raise funds for Concern and Christian Aid that has been going since 1992. A group of five pupils organised the event and forty pupils took part. The pupils stayed in school overnight,  and had a breakfast together early on Friday morning. They […]

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Ashton School students Brendan Morris and Marcus Fitzgibbon, winners of the Post Primary Language Initiative competition, winning themselves and their teacher, Olan Geaney a week’s language scholarship in Salamanca in Spain, studying Spanish in a dedicated language school. This is Ashton School’s third time winning the competition, open to all 5th year students of Spanish […]

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  Mrs. Alison Flack visited Ashton recently to speak to students in Ms. Power’s C.S.P.E. class about the role of Guide Dogs in the family, and wider community.  Students were spell-bound when they saw the dog completing various commands from Mrs. Flack. Visually impaired students and others were impressed with the impact a Guide Dog […]

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Third Year students recently participated in Short Story writing workshops, promoted by the English Department at Ashton , as part of the ongoing development of literacy throughout the school.  Ewan Lynch and Emily Hynes both honed their talents  as writers of fiction with the assistance of Cork City Council.  Their work was recently published in […]

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Ashton students, Annie Walsh, Karen Marshall, Natascha Fischer Dooley, and Evelyn Sheehan were invited guests at the 29th commemorative anniversary of the world’s biggest nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, which took place at the Lord Mayor’s chambers in the City Hall. Appreciative congratulations were extended to Annie Walsh who was presented with The Evgenia Nesterenko memorial […]

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Transition Year students at Ashton School recently participated in poetry writing workshops, facilitated  by Sarah Hayden, Assisting writer and poet, as part of the Cork City Libraries and Schools Project, supported by the Arts Office, Cork City Council.   Students, Evelyn Sheehan, Annie Walsh, Fianna Nolan, Diarmuid O’Donoghue, and Michael Shiel Lantry considered  and discussed emotions, […]

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Ashton U13 and U14 Soccer teams recently returned from an exciting trip to Blackpool in England over the Easter term, accompanied by Coaches Ian Cunningham, Stephen Bermingham,  Declan Coleman, Aidan Buckley, and 5th year students Ross Welch, David McSweeney, Marc O’Neill. The U13 soccer team beat Red Star BK from Denmark 6-0, an outstanding result.  […]

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Congratulations to the Junior Boys hockey team who won the Munster Schools Cup  on Tuesday, 22nd April, after a 1-0 victory against Midleton College.  Fabio Greco, who captained the team, scored the only goal of the match.  849 total views

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