The U16 basketball girls travelled to the Aura in Letterkenny on Monday 13th of January to compete in the North West Regional Basketball finals. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be on the day. The team consists of 18 3rd year girls and had the support of many of their classmates on Monday which meant so much to the girls. Despite the great support and hard work and dedication the Donegal side came out on top by 7 points. The girls were chasing the game from the get go and just couldn't pull it back. This was the first deafeat the girls had since starting their basketball journey over a year and a half ago which is an amazing achievement. Ms O Malley has loved working with this bunch of girls and is very excited to see what next season holds for them. Congratulations to all 18 girls on the panel. 

CMBM 1 - 1 Glenamaddy (5-4 pens) 

The lads had their Connacht FAI Quarter-final on Thursday 19th against Glenamaddy of Galway. 

The game was played in a spirtited yet competitive manner in Ballisadare FC. 

Like the last two games, our lads played outstanding football at times but just failed to captalise on chances in front of goal. 

It's a tuff pill to swallon for this great footballing but no doubt they will dust themselves down and go on to achieve more glory in the coming years. 

Best of luck to Glenamaddy in the Semi-final from all at Colaiste Muire. 

On Wednesday 18th of Decmeber 13 of our students travelled to Sligo Sports Complex to take part in this years Schools Rwoing Blitz which was run by Sligo Sports Partnership along with the Sligo Rowing Club. Clashing with our Carol service led to some students not being able to do both however we have no doubt later in the year we will run our own schools blitz as the interest from the students is most certainly there. Despite our students travelling with the intention of having fun and taking part there was numerous medals won along the way. Sarah Walsh placing first in the U18 girls category, Darragh Colsh placing 2nd and Kevin Devanarayana placing 3rd in U18 boys category and Claire Walsh placing first in the U16 girls with Emily Muirrin placing 3rd in the U16 category also. Our U16 girls, U18 Boys and our Mixed team took home gold in all three categories. This was a fantastic achievement for all our students and we are very proud of all our students for taking part in this fantastic event. Take a look through our gallery at some of the rowing that took place. 

Please see attached the December Guidance Newsletter.  Wishing you all a happy healthy Christmas and every good wish for 2025.

The Guidance Team

On Monday students took to the court to take part in a girls Pella and Basketball blitz. It was a range of girls from 1st year through to 6th year. A lovely opportunity for students to let their hair down and enjoy some fun games in the lead up to their Christmas holidays. Lots of prizes were won and the girls enjoyed taking part. Well done to all involved!

CM Ballymote 5 - 1 Moyne College

The lads were in action today (13.12.2024) in their final group game of the Connacht FAI u15 boys cup. Unbeaten in their first two games they knew a result today would take them into a Quarter-final after Christmas. 

Like the previous game, this young team showed their abilities from the first minute as they put Moyne College on the backfoot with lovely play in the middle of the park.  With five minutes played, Jack Ivers-Brehony curled a lovely righted footed shot into the corner of the net from outside the box to put us 1-0 up.  The game was frantic for the next 15 minutes as our lads tried to contend with Moyne Colleges number 6 as he was rampaging through our defence on several occasions. We had two great chances before the break as Conor Scanlon put in two excellent crosses to Fergus Ryan but they just went a whisker past the post each time. 

The second half Moyne started brightly but after three or four minutes it was our lads that really took control of the game.  Fergal McDonald did a fantastic man marking job on their dangerous number 6 which swung the game in our favour.  Our second & third goal came from the boot of Fergus Ryan who put in a massive shift up top and was rewarded with two goals. However, with 15 minutes to play it was no surprise their number 6 broke right through the middle of field into our box to bury a well struck shot 3-1.  We stayed calm and collected and Jack stepped up again to add his fourth goal in two games to ease any nerves.  Then Fergal McDonald added the fifth with a tidy finish into the bottom corner. 

This was great team display by these lads who now look forward to a Connacht QF.  

On Wednesday 11th of December all first year girls travelled to Sligo for a Girls Active day out. A great day was had by all with an opportunity for the first year girls not only to learn new skills but to make new friends and get to know one another a little bit better. The day was a fun filled day while learning many new skills along the way. Take a look through the many pictures displaying these unique skills learned by all. We look forward to the next day out with the group in January.

On Tuesday 10th of December some of our first year students were only delighted to get to meet our very own past pupil Brian Colsh (U23 World Rowing Champion 2023, Silver medalist in the Europeans 2020, Bronze medalist U23 World Championship and Bronze U23 medalist in the World Championships 2024). Brian completed his leaving cert in 2021 and has continued on his very successful rowing journey since leaving Colaiste Muire. He is truly inspriing and shared his rowing and academic journey with some of our first year students in the hope of inspiring our young talented first years. We are proud to say Brian wasn't the only medalist amongst the first years on Tuesday, our very own 6th year student Sarah Walsh also shared her journey about her recent success of wining Bronze with her quad in the Europeans with our first years. The students passed around the medals and enjoyed listening to both Sarah and Brian. We look forward to hearing and sharing many more success stories over the coming months amongst our past and present pupils. A big thank you to Brian and Sarah for taking the time to do this with our first years. 

Our U15 Girls soccer had their first outing in the Connacht FAI cup away to Balla of Mayo today 04.12.24

The game was played in true December fashion as the wind and rain was a constant presence throughout the match. 

The game was very even for the first 15mins as both teams were trying to figure each other out. However, it was our girls that took charge of the game as Aoife Walsh and Julia Dudziak were dominat in the middle of the park.  The first clear chance fell to Teagan Fallon but with the wet conditions the ball got away from her before she had a chance to shot.  Then, on the stroke of Halftime Teagan Fallon again had a great shot saved but Kira Hutchinson was at hand to slot home the rebound 1-0 at the break. 

The second half was much of the same, our girls controlled the game and created a lot of chances but Balla keeper was in superb form. The game stayed at 1-0 for most of the second but with 5 mins left Julia Dudziak played lovely one two with Cora Flannery on the edge and she got in behind the defence and slotted home to leave it 2-0. 

A great team performance by a very young and energentic team, they will look forward to a home game Vs Enniscrone after Christmass.