Cork School Sports

Cork School Sports

What a day for our girls and boys squads in MTU today!!

Girls

The girls started the action today and they all represented our school so well!!

In the sprints, both Keelin Collins and Kitty May Walsh took home gold.

Holly Wicks, Aideen Murphy, Eabha O’Leary and Zara Murphy took home silver in their races. While Isobel McCarthy won bronze in her race

Our Girls relay team of Kitty May Walsh, Ruby McCarthy, Aideen Murphy, and Ella Coakley ran their hearts out and took home the gold for Knockskeagh NS

Our girls squad can be very proud of all their performances, it was truly a team effort

Boys

In the afternoon, it was the turn of our boys squad.

We are very proud of each and everyone of them.

In the sprint races, Daithí O Brien took home silver in his race.

While our boys relay team of Matthew Kelleher, Michael Collins, Tim Crowley, and Patrick O Leary brought home silver in a very close relay race

Magnificent performances by all and all fantastic ambassadors for our school today. Well done!

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