Lifford is the county town of County Donegal, Ireland, the administrative centre of the county and the seat of Donegal County Council, although the town of Letterkenny is often mistaken as holding this role.
Blarney is a suburban town within the administrative area of Cork City in Ireland. It is located approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of the city centre. It is the site of Blarney Castle, home of the legendary Blarney Stone. Blarney is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central. It is surrounded by the suburban villages of Tower, Cloghroe and Kerry Pike, all on the outskirts of Cork City.
Ennistymon or Ennistimon is a country market town in County Clare, near the west coast of Ireland. The River Inagh, with its small rapids known as the Cascades, runs through the town, behind the main street. A bridge across the river leads to nearby Lahinch. The town is at the junction of the N67 and N85 roads.
Clane is a town in County Kildare, Ireland, 35.4 km (22 mi) from Dublin. With a population of 8,152 in 2022, it is the ninth largest town in Kildare and the 66th largest in Ireland. The town is on the River Liffey. Clane gives its name to the associated townland, civil parish, electoral division and surrounding barony.
Sancta Maria College is a girls' Catholic voluntary secondary school in Ballyroan, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland. The school is governed by a board of management. There are approximately 525 students and 34 permanent teachers. It is run by the Sisters of Mercy.
Coláiste Éanna is a secondary school for boys under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Ballyroan, Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1967 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers to serve the needs of the Ballyroan and adjacent parishes.
Knocknaheeny It is a working class suburb of Cork city, Ireland. It is located on a hill c. 2 km north of the city centre. The area is mainly residential, consisting of many terraced council housing estates.
Meelick is a small village and townland in County Clare, Ireland, situated a few kilometres north of Limerick city in the Mid-West Region.
Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair is an Irish-medium secondary school in the Gaeltacht district of Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland. It has a pupil attendance of around 450.
Convent Road is located to the north of Letterkenny, County Donegal, in the parish of Conwal and Leck, Ireland.
Meán Scoil Mhuire is an all-girls secondary school in Longford, Ireland.
Portmarnock Community School is a public secondary school situated in Portmarnock, County Dublin. It was built by the Department of Education in 1979, and was one of the first community schools built in Ireland. As of 2019, the school had an enrollment of over 900 students.
Presentation College, Athenry is a voluntary secondary school which is predominantly Catholic in character located in the town of Athenry, County Galway, Ireland. It is under the trusteeship of Catholic Education an Irish Schools Trust (CEIST).
St Joseph's Fairview, sometimes St Joseph's C.B.S., and previously St Joseph's Secondary Christian Brothers' School, is a co-educational secondary school in Fairview, Dublin, Ireland, having been boys-only until 2023. The school was in the patronage of the Irish Christian Brothers; the patron is now the Edmund Rice Schools Trust.
Scoil Mhuire, Buncrana is a co-educational voluntary Catholic secondary school, located in Buncrana in County Donegal, Ireland. The school was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1933 and continues to have a Catholic ethos under the trusteeship of the Catholic Education an Irish Schools Trust (CEIST). It had 788 students in 2021.
Creagh National School is a primary school in Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. Originally founded in 1939, it is a Catholic boys and girls national school located on the outskirts of Ballinasloe in the civil parish of Creagh. As of 2019, the school had 415 pupils and approximately thirty staff, making it the largest national school in the Ballinasloe catchment area.
Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust (CEIST) is the trustee body for 107 Catholic Voluntary Secondary Schools in Ireland. CEIST provides the moral and legal framework that enable its schools to offer second level Catholic education in Ireland. Its role is built on the vision of its five founding congregations Daughters of Charity, Presentation Sisters, Sisters of the Christian Retreat, Sisters of Mercy and Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. These religious congregations established CEIST in 2007 to ensure the viability of Catholic Education at post-primary level in Ireland into the future.
Scoil Mhuire is a Catholic school for girls in Cork, Ireland. It was founded in 1951 by sisters Mary and Joan O'Donovan and their friend Kathleen Cahill. Joan O'Donovan would later become a religious sister in the Dominican Order. The school opened at 2 Sidney Place, Cork City, with 70 pupils aged from nine to seventeen years. In 1954, when Scoil Ite closed, most of its pupils and some staff transferred to Scoil Mhuire, which then became an all-age school from kindergarten upwards. Over the years, the buildings occupied by the school have been extended by purchasing adjoining properties. Pupil numbers now exceed 400. The school's mission is to develop the full potential of each individual girl.
On 12 March 2020, all schools, colleges, and childcare facilities in the Republic of Ireland were shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The shutdown resulted in the cancellation of the 2020 Leaving Certificate and 2020–2021 Junior Certificate examinations, as well as all 2020–2021 Irish language summer courses in the Gaeltacht.
