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St Joseph’s College ‘The Bish’ Rowing Club are holding their annual Christmas cake sale and coffee morning to raise funds for the club.

St Mary’s College which opened its doors in Galway in 1912 is now 103 years old.  It has a long tradition of the highest quality education and facilities within Galway city. It boasts the finest sports facilities and offers a large range of subject choices for your son.

St Mary’s College which opened its doors in Galway in 1912 is now 103 years old.  It has a long tradition of the highest quality education and facilities within Galway city. It boasts the finest sports facilities and offers a large range of subject choices for your son.

Maurice Semple’s book Reflections on Lough Corrib has a very good section on the history of rowing on the river and lake. The first clubs were formed in the mid 19th century, and competitive rowing has been a feature of Galway life since. A number of pupils in Coláiste Iognáid came together in October 1934 to ask the school if it would consider setting up a Jes Rowing Club. Happily, it did, and thus began a history of great achievement which continues to the present day.

Galway rowers from St Joseph's (Bish) and Colaiste Iognaid (Jes) are set to renew rivalries at this weekend's Galway Regatta, including two teams from 1984.

The Bish first year basketball team won silver in the All Ireland schools A finals in the University of Limerick last weekend.

There is historical evidence to show that there were Jesuits working in Galway in the early 1600s. Even before that, men from the west of Ireland were entering the Jesuits which indicates that their reputation had arrived here very shortly after the Order was founded. They had a chequered history here (as they had in the rest of the country) in that they were banished several times, but they kept coming back.

St Joseph’s College, "The Bish", successfully defended their All Ireland schools rowing crown in Limerick on Sunday.

SILENT, THE acclaimed play written and performed by Pat Kinevane, dealing with the issue of homelessness, is coming back to Galway.

Arrabawn Dairies has just rewarded students from the Bish Secondary School €1000 for their kindness shown towards a homeless man on Shop Street. The four young boys were spotted buying a coffee for the man, who had been lying asleep in the rain. The prize was given as part of Arrabawn’s Legendary Acts of Kindness Campaign, in which they reward people who are nominated for carrying out a selfless act with one of the fortnightly €1000 prizes.