Welcome to Week 35 of The Buzz Newsletter!
It’s Week 35 of The Buzz Newsletter! Congratulations to 5th Year student Sean Cronin who came first in his category at the 2025 Irish Sailing Youth National Championships on Sunday 27th April in Dun Laoghaire. Well done Sean!
An incredible 4 out of the 6 players chosen to represent Ireland at U19 level at the Badminton World Championships are students at The Institute of Education! Massive congratulations to 6th year students Pranav Erukattil & Fionn Dowling, and 5th year students Nicole Joy & Senan O’Rourke who have been called up to the Irish squad. They will travel to India to compete in the World Championships from 6th to 19th October this year. Best of luck Pranav, Fionn, Nicole and Senan!
We recently held a golf outing for Institute students on Monday April 14th at Lucan Golf Club. Congratulations to First place winner Conor O’Neill and Second place Stellan Frost. This was our second subsidised golf outing of the year for students. Twenty students participated and some great golf way played. Thanks to John Taylor for organising!
Congratulations to 5th Year students Prabhav Nayak & Namuun Natsagdorj who were very successful at UCD Cube Days 2025. Prabhav came 2nd in the Megamix event in UCD with an average solve time of 32.82 seconds. Well done both!
Today 6th May, from 12pm the CAO Online Change of Mind facility becomes available. It will close on 1st July at 5pm. Students are advised to make any changes to their CAO list by the end of May, before the Leaving Certificate exams begin.
With our 6th Year students settling into serious study mode for the upcoming Leaving Certificate exams, there are some options being offered in libraries at third level institutions:
- TU Dublin are offering a Free Leaving Cert Study Programme at the libraries at each of their 5 campuses from 26th May – 24th June at Grangegorman, Aungier Street, Blanchardstown, Bolton Street and Tallaght.
- Details of the UCD Library 2025 Leaving Certificate Student Study Programme will also be available in May.
Upcoming Events:
- 6th May: Griffith College Dublin Open Day. 5:30-7pm.
- 8th May: DCU Transition Year Open Day – Glasnevin Campus. 9:30am-1:30pm.
- 10th May: ATU Sligo & St. Angela’s Open Day. 10am-1pm.
- 10th May: SETU Carlow Spring Open Day. 10am.
- 10th May: National College of Ireland (NCI) Open Day. 10am.
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