Congratulations to Siofra Corrigan (5th year) who is through to the National Finals of the Soroptimist Public Speaking competition which will be held in Wexford in March. Her speech was on Peace and Democracy. She also had an impromptu speech. 

Congratulations to the 2nd Year junior debating students who got through to the Octo Final of the UCD debates, they are Evelyn Mendes Healy, Amélie Silvestre, Zoe Kennedy and Cara Lynch.

And finally, congratulations to the senior debating team who are through to the next round of the Concern debates. They are Sophie Faughan, Sophie Kilcullen, Siofra Corrigan, Ella Bracken & Olivia Hogan.

Thank you to the teachers who continue to support the debating teams - Ms Conlon, Ms Daly & Ms Mackey. 

Our Junior Camogie team played their Dublin Cup final against Portmarnock in Trinity Sports Ground, Santry on Friday 27th January.  Holy Faith battled hard against a tough Portmarnock side who were in the lead at half time on a scoreline of 3-0 to 1-1.

The girls continued to fight hard leaving Portmarnock scoreless in the second half but unfortunately it just wasn’t enough to win the game. The game ended 3-0  to 1-2 to Portmarnock. Hard luck and well done to all involved. A big thank you to Ms Furlong and Ms Flanagan for their work with the team and to the supporters who went along today. 

Team

Cara Mulligan, Ava Loftus, Eve O’Grady, Orla Hanratty, Ella Ryan, Eileen McCarthy, Maggie O’Dea, Aoife Kane (0-1), Isobel Twomey, Mairead Hanratty, Sarah Power, Siún Lindsay (0-1), Orlaith Fogarty, Grace O'Neill, Julianne McDermott (1-0) Subs: Hazel Power, Nicole Carroll, Eve Kirwan, Clíona Walsh, Jane Rooney.

Our Junior Camogie team played their semi-final against Manor House in DCC Alfie Beirne Road on Monday 23rd last. An excellent first half performance saw the girls in the lead at half time on a scoreline of 2-2 to 0-1.  

The second half saw Holy Faith continue to battle against a solid Manor House side and come out on top with the game ending 3-6 to 1-2. Well done to all involved.

This brings the girls through to the competition final which will be played this Friday 27th January.  

Team

Cara Mulligan, Ava Loftus, Orla Hanratty, Eve O’Grady, Ella Ryan, Eileen McCarthy, Maggie O’Dea, Aoife Kane (0-1), Isobel Twomey (1-0), Sarah Power (0-1), Mairead Hanratty (0-1), Siún Lindsay (0-1), Orlaith Fogarty, Grace O'Neill (0-1) Julianne McDermott. Subs: Hazel Power, Ella Ryan, Nicole Carroll, Eve Kirwan (2-1), Clíona Walsh, Jane Rooney, Kate Quigley.

Congratulations to Sarah Courtney of Transition Year who is part of the Killester senior basketball team that defeated Trinity Meteors in Sunday's national final.

The Killester team went in as underdogs but emerged clear winners, 92 -70.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Concern debating team that are through to Knockout Round 2 of the Concern Debates 2022-23 programme!  The adjudicators were very impressed by all the speakers in last Thursday’s dabate against St Joseph’s, Rush.  Good luck to Ella Bracken, Siofra Corrigan, Sophie Faughan and Sophie Kilcullen in the next round against Largy College, Monaghan.  Thank you to Ms Conlon and Ms Mackey who co-ordinated the team and to Olivia Hogan who assisted.

The Motion for the Knockout Round is ‘Groups like Just Stop Oil should follow Extinction Rebellion’s lead and give up on disruptive action.’    Holy Faith will be proposing the motion.

We would like to wish TY students, Alice Carey and Ella O'Carroll, the very best of luck in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition. 

“Turn Down the Volume” Which Sensory Stimuli Distracts People and Which Can Help? Stand Number 4556

BTYSTE 2023, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Intermediate

Congratulations to the senior debating team participating in this year's Concern Debates.  There were 180 schools competing in the league phase involving three rounds of debates.  The Holy Faith team scored a perfect 15 and finished top of the league.  The team now moves into the knockout phase of the competion and will debate with the team from St Joseph's, Rush in mid January.  Holy Faith will propose the motion "The SDGs are a waste of time".  The debates in the knockout will continue to be on line.  Best of luck to the debators (Siofra Corrigan, Sophie Faughnan, Sophie Kilcullen, Olivia Hogan and Ella Bracken) and staff mentors, Ms Conlon and Ms Mackey.

Well done to the 3rd Year students who took part in the Christmas Bake Off. Congratulations to the winners - Phoenix Hickson-Pitt, Emily Cullen & Ava Keenan and to all the runners up.

A huge thank you to all who contributed to our SVP Hamper appeal. We received food donations to make 25 hampers and will also be donating almost €2000 to the SVP. Thank you to Ms Halpin, who coordinates the appeal every year and made the hampers with some of our 6th year students this morning. Thank you to the 6th students for giving up their time to make the hampers. Well done all.