Category: Active School

All Ireland title for Herbertstown N.S.

Staff

It was a proud night for HNS on Friday 6th March in Thurles with the school winning 1st prize for ‘Promotion Of Gaelic Games and Culture’ and 3rd place in ‘Small School of the Year’ in the Cumann na mBunscol awards ceremony sponsored by Cornmarket. Trophies were presented on the night with a total cash prize of €1000 also awarded to the school. Well done the the boys and girls for their participation and input into the winning entries, parents for always supporting games in the school and the staff for their hard work and commitment.

The ‘Promotion of Gaelic Games & Culture’ Award was based on videos produced by schools and the HNS video can be viewed here:

Bon Secours Hospital Run For Fun

Staff

Registrations are now open for the 2020 Bon Secours Hospital Run for Run.

The event takes place on Saturday May 2nd. In recent years we have had some superb numbers participating in this event with almost 50 pupils taking part last year. Each entrant will receive a tshirt and finishers medal. Places in each wave are limited to 1000 entries.

The school receives €5 from every entry so any support would be greatly appreciated.

Herbertstown NS shortlisted for national Cornmarket Cumann na mBunscol Awards

Staff

Herbertstown NS has made the final shortlist in two categories for the upcoming Cornmarket Cumann na mBunscol Awards.

Herbertstown NS is shortlisted in Category 4, Promotion of Gaelic Games and Culture and category 6, Small School of the Year.

The entry in category 4 was in the form of a video and the category 6 entry was in book format.

Well done to all the pupils and staff in the school for all their hard work on the projects and their continuing support of Gaelic Games. The winners will be announced at a banquet in Thurles on Friday March 6th.

Some pages from the book can be viewed below.

The video entry can be viewed here:

Indoor Hurling

Staff

Our boys team travelled to Martinstown today to participate in the South Indoor Hurling blitz.

The boys lost to a strong Hospital NS side in the opening game but followed this with a draw against Bruree NS and wins against Ballylanders NS and Athlacca NS. Well done boys.

Attention now turns to the camogie which takes place next Tuesday.

Basketball

Staff
On Wednesday the 4th December the girls in 6th Class left for Kilmallock school to play basketball. When we arrived we got on our bibs and then went and played against Mitchelstown. We won that game by 1 basket. After that we went and played Hospital. We won that match by 8 baskets. In the end we won all our matches, we really enjoyed our day.

By Jamie & Méabh

Herbertstown NS pupils take part in South Handball Blitz

Staff

6 Herbertstown N.S. players competed in the South Limerick Schools Handball blitz in John the Baptist C.S. on Monday.

Over 40 players in total were present at the event and there were some excellent games played on the ‘One Wall’ courts in Hospital.

We had 2 pupils taking part for the first time, 1 playing in his second blitz for the school and 3 players playing in their third blitz.

2 Herbertstown N.S. pupils met in the U13 B decider and provided a top class game for those who were watching on. Another one of our boys finished runner up in the U11 A competiton.

Well done to all our pupils who once again represented our school with distinction.

Munster Minor Hurling Cup in Herbertstown

Staff

Limerick Minor goalkeeper Jack Franklin was a guest of the school today and he brought the Munster Minor hurling cup to our after-school training.

Jack, who is currently the goalkeeper for John the Baptist’s Harty Cup team, gave some great tips to the children about the importance of practising the skills of the game at home.

The cup has been awarded to the Munster Minor hurling champions since the 1940s and one victory of note was that of the 1958 Limerick team who featured Herbertstown man JJ Bresnihan in the full line. Who knows, perhaps in a few years time one of the pupils present to meet Jack today might be picking up the cup themselves.