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Dear Parents,

BLOG AWARDS IRELAND 2013

Our school website/blog was recently shortlisted for a National Award at the upcoming Blog Awards Ireland ceremony. The blog made the final sixteen and we were delighted to be the only primary school in the country to make this shortlist. Unfortunately, we did not make it on to the final shortlist of six this year. We might have better luck next year! Sincere thanks to all the parents who posted comments to the website recently. It was much appreciated.

ATHLETICS SUCCESS

Third – Sixth class pupils took part in the County Tipperary Cross Country championship this week. All our athletes ran superbly. Our four teams performed heroically to finish just outside the medal spots. Fourth Class pupil Eoin Moloughney brought home a silver medal in the 800m 3^rd/4^th Class boys race. Well done to all the children who participated on the day.

CUMANN NA MBUNSCOL

Well done to our Senior Footballers on their comprehensive victory over Ballycahill NS last week. Our under 13 girls Football team travel to Littleton on Tuesday, October 8^th for a blitz. Transport will be required. Our young Under 11 Footballers also travel to Littleton on Tuesday, October 15^th for a football blitz. Transport will also be required on this day.

PARENTS ASSOCIATION

I would like to sincerely thank outgoing Parents Association Officers Maria Gleeson (Chairperson), Joan Kennedy (Secretary) and Ann Coffey (Treasurer) for the sterling work they carried out during the past number of years. They brought great enthusiasm and commitment to their roles.

I wish incoming Dualla NS Parents Association officers Audrey Moloughney (Chairperson), Secretary (Emily Nash) and Karen Swan (Treasurer) the very best for the next few years.

They will be assisted by committee members Joan Kennedy, Yvonne Toomey, Carol Raymond, Geraldine Hickey, Grace Ryan and Marian Gleeson.

REFERENDUM

The school will be closed tomorrow Friday October 4^th as the school is to be used for voting in the abolition of the Seanad referendum.

To keep up to date with all school events, please visit our school website http://duallans.scoilnet.ie/blog/

or follow us on Twitter. Our Twitter username is @DuallaNS. It would be great if parents continue to post comments to the school website throughout the year.

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Ms. McElligott’s room had a ball of a time down at the Reptile Farm in Kilkenny today.

Check out some of the photos from the day!

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Our Spring Hurling League Medal Presentation coincided nicely with our County Colours Day today.

Well done to all the children who played in the League.

Congrats also to a very worthy ‘Player of the Tournament’ Winner.

Finally thanks to all the children who wore their County Colours today and participated in County Colours Day.

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Cumann na mBunscol is organising a Colours Day on Friday May 10th in primary schools throughout Munster to promote the arrival of the Munster Championships.

We encourage anybody who has a Tipp Jersey, Blue T-Shirt or Club jersey to wear it to school this Friday if they wish to partake in the Colours Day.

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Rang 4 & 5 made Ice Cream Sundaes today!! They looked delicious!!

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Our Spring Hurling League concluded today with the Main Final and 3rd/4th Place Final. Played out in near perfect conditions, the Waterford team led by Callum Lawrence emerged victorious in the Main Final. Player of the Tournament Páraic Brosnan captained the Runners Up Cork who gave a fine account of themselves all through the league.

The 3rd/4th Place Final saw Brendan Lawrence’s Limerick Team defeat a fine Tipperary Team who were captained by teak tough defender Eoin Power. Please God the Tipperary Hurlers will have more luck in Sunday’s League Final!!

Well done to all the boys and girls who played in the League. Our Medal Ceremony will take place in the next week or two and we will commence our Summer Hurling League next week.

THE TIPPERARY TEAM

THE LIMERICK TEAM

DUALLA N.S. SPRING HURLING LEAGUE CHAMPIONS – THE WATERFORD TEAM

THE CORK TEAM

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Dualla NS & Golden NS renewed acquaintances in Dualla today for the second time in two months.

This Under 11 Hurling Challenge match was played in glorious sunshine as the two teams readied themselves for the Under 11 Championship which starts in a fortnight.

Dualla NS got off to a flying start with Callum Lawrence notching 1-1 in the space of a few minutes. He quickly followed this up with another goal when shooting low and hard to the right corner of the net.

Up front Eoin Moloughney was also very industrious in a productive opening half for Dualla.

Dualla led at the interval by three points. The second half saw Golden thundering into the game and soon they were scoring at will. Only for heroic goalkeeping by Pádraic Flanagan, the game would have been over.

Páraic Brosnan & Brendan Lawrence began to get the upper hand in midfield as the game approached its final minutes.

A few wonder strikes from star forward Callum Lawrence saved the day thus ensuring a share of the spoils for Dualla.

Special thanks to Golden for coming over to us for the game today.

Well done to all our players today.

Player of the Match: Páraic Brosnan.

The Dualla NS Squad was as follows: Pádraic Flanagan, Eoin Power, Páraic Brosnan (Joint Capt.), Callum Lawrence, Brendan Lawrence (Joint Capt.), Eoin Moloughney, Aisling Moloughney, Ava Ryan, Nicole Kennedy, Hannah Hughes, Anna McCan.

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Rang 4 & 5 painted ocean landscapes today. Using a combination of paint and pastels, they had to mix paint colours to vary tones within the picture.

Well done children.

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Well done to all the children from 1st to 5th Class for participating in the ‘Write A Poem’ Project.

The theme was ‘Our World’ and many of the children’s poems reflect Nature & the world around us.

Special thanks to Ms. Lahart for coordinating this project.

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