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• Friday 26 May 2023 TY Graduation 2023 Today the girls of TY 2023 graduated after a fantastic Transition Year.
• Wednesday 24 May 2023 Leinster Champions Today the U15 soccer team did themselves and the school very proud when they were crowned champions of leinster 2023. See the images below to get a taste of the day. They were welcomed back to the school as champions with a homecoming that was well deserved. A day to remember in the school.,
• Monday 22 May 2023 Prize-Giving Awards Ceremony It is that time of year again when all students and staff (teaching and ancillary) come together in Our Lady’s College as a whole school community to recognise and reward hard work and effort in diverse areas of school life.
• Monday 22 May 2023 AIB Career Skills Competition
• Friday 19 May 2023 Clara McVeigh - Head Girl 2023/24 The moment Clara McVeigh realised she would be representing her fellow students next year in the role of Head Girl here at Our Lady's College.
• Thursday 18 May 2023 Choir & Orchestra Showcase Concert May 2023
• Thursday 11 May 2023 Soccer Success for Greenhills in Under 15 Leinster Girls League  There was great celebration in Our Lady’s College, Greenhills on Wednesday, May 3rd when its Under 15 soccer team beat off stiff competition from Scoil Mhuire Arklow in an exciting home played semi-final in which the Greenhills girls beat their opposition: 4-2.
• Monday 8 May 2023 Greenhills Welcomes German Exchange Students
• Friday 5 May 2023 Sports Day 2023
• Friday 5 May 2023 Parents' Council Draw
• Thursday 4 May 2023 Intercultural week and Fashion Show
• Wednesday 3 May 2023 1st Soccer Match on Home Soil
• Friday 28 April 2023 Greenhills Student Wows Judges with her take on “Chicken Manchurian” Our Lady’s College TY student, Christa Gigi, beat off stiff competition in the Healthy Home Chef All Island Cookery Competition to achieve first place in the competition’s senior category held recently at the National Centre of Excellence in Sligo.
• Monday 24 April 2023 Batteries for Barretstown The Green-Schools committee are holding a ‘Battery Blitz Day’ in aid of Barretstown this Wednesday 26th April. Barretstown helps rebuild lives affected by childhood cancer. Every battery recycled will go towards a donation fund.
• Wednesday 19 April 2023 Greenhills Pride in H. E. Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland's ambassador to the U.S. On the occasion of the assumption of her role as Ireland’s 19th ambassador to the U.S., all in Greenhills are sending their congratulations and best wishes to Our Lady’s College past-pupil, Geraldine Byrne-Nason.
• Monday 17 April 2023 Ireland's Ambassador to The United States Geraldine Byrne Nason The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Tuesday 28 March 2023 Past pupil Shona Goring
• Monday 27 March 2023 Legal Essay Competition Congratulations to Eilí Ryan who reached the final of the National Gráinne O’Neill Legal Essay Competition. Eilí was presented with a certificate by the president of the Law Society of Ireland, Maura Derivan, at an award ceremony in The Presidents Hall, Blackhall Place on Thursday 23rd March.
• Thursday 23 March 2023 Paris Trip 2023
• Monday 20 March 2023 Ceiliúradh Week “Ceiliúradh” March 2023.
• Thursday 16 March 2023 Ceiliúradh Week 2023
• Friday 10 March 2023 Zakopane Ski Trip 23 Ski Trip Feb ’23 – Zakopane, Poland
• Monday 6 March 2023 Trinity College Awards
• Wednesday 1 March 2023 Senior History Trip to Munich and Nuremberg The Senior History trip to Munich and Nuremberg took place from 18th – 21st February. Twenty five students accompanied by their history teachers arrived in Munich for two hectic days of activity. On the first day the group visited Dachau Concentration Camp and received an excellent guided tour of the camp. Dachau was the first concentration camp opened by Hitler in March 1933. Over 200,000 prisoners came to Dachau, and over 42,000 died there , before it was finally liberated by the American army on 29th April 1945, the day before Hitler’s death. This visit included a visit to the two crematoria used to cremate the prisoners who died in Dachau ; and also the gas chamber built in Dachau (although there is no evidence that any gassings ever took place there). In the afternoon there was a visit to the Jewish Museum in Munich, recently constructed in 2005, to commemorate the Jewish community who lived in Munich before the Nazi regime, and also to commemorate and remember the Jew
• Monday 27 February 2023 Under 14 Gaelic Our Lady’s College, Greenhills 5-5
• Friday 20 January 2023 Mass of Thanksgiving 2023
• Thursday 19 January 2023 Football January 19th 2023
• Thursday 5 January 2023 December 2022 Newsletter
• Sunday 25 December 2022 1D Advent Wreath 2022 The thumbnail has been assigned to the news item, and for convenience also added to the body here:
• Tuesday 20 December 2022 TY Law Course 2022 Please view this selection of photos showing the TYs Law Course.
• Tuesday 20 December 2022 Christmas School Carol Service Please view below a selection of photos showing our Carol Service this year in the school.
• Monday 19 December 2022 College Awareness Tree Planting
• Thursday 17 November 2022 3rd Year History Trip
• Thursday 20 October 2022 Badminton Marathon 7am 14th Oct – 7am 15th Oct
• Monday 17 October 2022 UCD Junior Debating Competition Some of our students took part in the Junior Debating Competition last Thursday October 13th in UCD. They will compete again at the end of the month. Well done to all involved.
• Monday 10 October 2022 Open Night 2022 Photography Club
• Tuesday 27 September 2022 TY Carlingford Trip 23
• Friday 16 September 2022 1st Year Sports Day 2022
• Friday 16 September 2022 Open Night 2022
• Monday 12 September 2022 Leaving Certificate Class 2022 Destination Survey.
• Wednesday 31 August 2022 Leaving Certificate 2022 Information for Friday.
• Tuesday 30 August 2022 Leaving Cert Helpline
• Friday 10 June 2022 Juthika Bhakta - National Fossils Art Contest Following on from the success of winning the Texaco Art Competition, 1st year Juthika Bhakta has won a Highly Commended Award in the National Fossils Art Contest. The award was presented at a ceremony in the Glucksman Art Gallery in University College Cork. Well done on this fantastic achievement we are all very proud of Juthika here in Our Lady's College, Greenhills.
• Wednesday 8 June 2022 Our Lady's College Awards Ceremony - Drogheda Independent
• Friday 3 June 2022 Texaco Art Winner
• Friday 3 June 2022 Newsletter May 22
• Wednesday 1 June 2022 Prize Giving 2022
• Wednesday 1 June 2022 3rd Year Quiz
• Monday 30 May 2022 Playr-Fit School Fitting Day There will be a fitting day in school on June 23rd and June 24th for all those wishing to try on our PE gear before purchasing.
• Tuesday 17 May 2022 5th Year Geography Fieldwork
• Wednesday 4 May 2022 Positive Mental Health Week 2022 See the gallery below for a taste of today's activities.
• Sunday 1 May 2022 Ukraine Appeal Today the students, staff, parents, and Fr Colm from The Augustinian community put together a van load of materials for those in need on the Ukrainian border. Over the weeks medical equipment, clothes and much more was collected in the school, in Maher’s chemist and in the Augustinian church. The van was packed today and is travelling to Ukraine on Thursday. Best of luck and a safe journey to John Mc Govern as he travels across Europe to deliver the supplies. The school would like to thank all those who contributed and we pray that peace prevails sooner rather than later in Ukraine.
• Friday 29 April 2022 TY Gaeltacht 2022
• Thursday 28 April 2022 Poetry Reading in the Japanese Garden
• Wednesday 30 March 2022 Wild Flower Garden Some of our students along with Ron planting a wild flower garden along our fantastic walkway around the grounds of Our Lady's College, Greenhills.
• Wednesday 30 March 2022 The Beech Tree
• Tuesday 29 March 2022 TY trip to Carlingford Adventure Centre
• Tuesday 8 March 2022 March Newsletter
• Friday 11 February 2022 February Newsletter
• Friday 28 January 2022 Ceist Day It’s all in the prep! Fifth year OLC students working hard on our CEIST day display!
• Thursday 27 January 2022 Drogheda Cares at Christmas OLC’s John Paul II award participants present a cheque for over 1300 euro to the Drogheda Cares at Christmas charity. Well done to all involved.
• Monday 24 January 2022 Catholic Schools Week Our Lady's College is proud to belong to the community of Catholic schools in Ireland and this year's Catholic Schools Week theme is 'Living Life to the Full with God'. See poster for more details.
• Saturday 25 December 2021 Christmas Day Music in Augustinian Some of our past and present students of the Music Department took time out of their Christmas morning to play music at the 12 o'clock mass in the Augustinian. The girls are credit to their families and to our school. Well done to all involved and a very special thanks to Fr Colm and Fr Declan and the other members of the Augustinian community who look after the students so well on a cold and wet Christmas morning.
• Thursday 23 December 2021 SVP and Women's Refuge Donations were made to St Vincent dePaul and the Drogheda Women's Refuge from the fundraising efforts of Students and Teachers in Greenhills. Well done to all involved.
• Tuesday 21 December 2021 December Newsletter
• Monday 20 December 2021 Carol Service 2021 Rehersa - The Sally Gardens 5th year students rehearsing their own arrangement'The Sally Gardens'prior to this years annual Carol Service.
• Friday 17 December 2021 Green-Schools Irish Water Competition
• Friday 17 December 2021 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
• Monday 13 December 2021 Lighting the 3rd Candle of Advent. This morning in Our Lady's College, students and teachers celebrated through music and words, the lighting of the 3rd candle of Advent.
• Friday 3 December 2021 Lighting the Advent Calendar On Wednesday students and teachers held a ceremony to celebrate the beginning of Advent. With Covid restrictions still in place, the ceremony took place with a small number of students in the main hall. It was a brief glimpse of how we here in Greenhills would celebrate such an event pre-covid. Music was performed on the day and all proceedings were shared with the whole school over the intercom.
• Thursday 25 November 2021 Planting Bulbs on Remembrance Walkway Over 800 bulbs were planted by various different class groups on our Remembrance Walkway. We look forward to all the wonderful colours appearing along the walkway next Spring.
• Tuesday 16 November 2021 TY Trip to Go Quest Our Transition Years had a well deserved day out at GoQuest where they had to team up and use their skills and knowledge to try and beat the challenges set for them. A great day was had by all!

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