The Sports Awards took place on Friday May 20th in The Nuremore Hotel, Carrickmacross. The intention of the night was to recognise the unprecedented sporting achievement in the school this year and draw attention to start of a fundraising campaign to aquire new sporting facilities for the school. The night was a great success enjoyed by students, staff and parents alike.  

Photos from the event can be viewed here:  Flickr Awards

Big thanks to Lou Metzger for joining us on the night and recording these moments.

Highlights of the night by Jonathon, Raphael and Euan can be viewed here: Highlights of Awards Ball

The RannaFast and MacLarnon Montage videos can be viewed on our YouTube Channel

MacLarnon Montage: MacLarnon Champions

RannFast Montage: RannaFast Champions

The MacLarnon and RannaFast teams received their medals from our guest speaker Eoin Lennon.

There were also five individual awards presented on the night. Here are the nominees and the winners

'Outstanding Achievement in Sport’ Award sponsored by Cusken Ltd.

Andrew Woods, Oisin McEntee, Sean Burns, Liam Og Murray

The winner is David Garland

Emerging Junior Sports Star sponsored by P&P McMahon

 The nominees are: Arturs Amolins & Michael McCullagh

The winner is Harry Corscadden,

Junior Sports Star sponsored by AES CCTV Security

 The nominees are:

Tadgh Kirk Callaghan, Cian Fitzgerald, Niall Marron

The winner is Cathal Kearney

Emerging Senior Sports Star sponsored by PST Sport 

 The nominees are:

Oran Kiernan, Shane McCullagh, Patrick Bermingham

The winner is Dean Connolly

Senior Sports Star Sponsored by McMahon, Keyes & Comp.

The nominees are:

Oisin Kerley, Kieran Slavin, Ryan O'Connor

The winner is Allan Kieran

Well done to all nominees and winners.

A huge ‘Thank You’ to all the sponsors and raffle prize donors. Your support is greatly appreciated. Thanks to David O’Rourke for kindly acting as MC on the night, Eoin Lennon for his excellent speech, The Nuremore for all their help with preparations, Seamus McEnaney for conducting the auction, all the parents and students for attending and the school staff for all their help in preparations and support  for the night. Here’s to another year of immense success next year #ardscoilabu.