On Thursday the 26th of February, Transition Year students Laoise O’Gorman and Niamh O’Neill took the short journey down to Arklow to take part in the Wicklow Enterprise Awards county final. Niamh and Laoise qualified for the competition in late January with the company ‘From Hand To Heart’. This is a mini business that sells hand made chocolate truffles and cards that focuses on promoting sustainable gift giving. In December of last year, the girls had their stand set up in

On the 26th of January 2026, St. David’s celebrated their Junior Cycle Class of 2025. Each student's grades were congratulated and every student who received a distinction was additionally presented with an award. Our students outdid themselves this year and made the school proud as our total student cohort achieved an outstanding 201 distinctions! This is 17.63%, which is double the national average of 8.65%. We also saw an amazing number of higher merits awarded to our st

Our Young Social Innovators team has been working all year to promote women in sport. Our team wanted to focus on the huge inequalities that lie in the support available for women’s sport worldwide, and do what we can to help tackle this issue in our local area. The UNESCO Sport and Gender Equality Game Plan aims to address 3 huge issues: Reducing Gender Based Violence in sport Reducing teenage girls dropout from sport More women needed in sports leadership roles This plan se