Sam Maguire Visits The School

We recently had a visit from “Sam Maguire”. Aaron Byrne, captain of the Dublin Under 21 and current member of Jim Gavin’s Senior team came along also. Flyers have gone home with all the details of teams that Round Towers GAA Club have for football, hurling and camogie. Why not try out for one of […]

5th Class Recount Writing

Mr Byrne’s 5th class have been preparing, drafting, writing and typing their own recount writing recently on the All Ireland Hurling final. Congratulations to Ruth McCloskey, Leah Molloy and Cyprian Wolski whose articles appear below: All Ireland Final: By Ruth McCloskey In Croke Park, Sunday the 3rd of September, the All Ireland Hurling Final 2017 […]

This is Healthy Lifestyle Week

Monday 11th to Friday 15th September is Healthy Lifestyle Week in Talbot. Thank you to Valerie and Dylan and all in Mr Coleman’s class for creating a lovely banner for the school reception to let everyone know what’s going on in our school this week. The focus of healthy lifestyle week this year is healthy […]

Dance Display

We were treated to an excellent display of dancing organised by our SNAs Orla and Rosie. Well done to all involved as a lot of preparation time went into creating this routine of fancy footwork!   

Operation Transformation 10@10

Mr Gordon recently told us all about Operation Transformation and what we can do in school to improve our fitness, health and general well being. One idea for primary schools across the country is called ’10@10′, which encourages all primary school children to take part in 10 minutes of physical activity at 10.am each day. Here is […]

The Sam Maguire stays in Dublin

Dublin 1-15 to Mayo 1-14 Dublin retain the Sam Maguire for the first time since 1977 with a 1-15 to 1-14 replay win over Mayo. Well done to the Dublin team and their manager Jim Gavin and of course hard luck to Mayo. Thanks to both teams for the amazing entertainment.