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School to remain closed on Tuesday 17th October

The Department of Education & Skills has instructed all schools to remain closed on Tuesday 17th October.  The Parent-Teacher meeting for 3rd years will be rescheduled.  Looking forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday 18th.

School Closure 16th October 2017

Due to the Met Eireann status red weather alert all schools, including St. Joseph’s, Fairview, will remain closed on Monday 16th October 2017. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday 17th

Big Brother ’17/’18 starts!

After a very competitive application process, the 11 pairs of ‘Bigs’ and ‘Littles’ who are a part of the school’s mentoring programme had their first meeting today. They will meet each week during Friday lunchtime, and there will be events such a pizza parties and out of school excursions to look forward to. Names of … Read more

Alexander Fay does Himself and Joey’s Proud

The following link brings the reader to a good article written by our recent past pupil Alexander Fay on getting into Trinity College Dublin.  It is a very fine piece that is well-written and does all of us in Joey’s proud.  Well done, Alex, and also thanks for the praise – we are truly grateful … Read more

Robert (Bobby) Kirwan RIP

We recently heard the sad news that Robert Kirwan, Leaving Cert class of 1980 and better known as Bobby, originally from Killester but living in Carlow, sadly passed away last month. On behalf of all here in Joey’s I would like to extend our deepest sympathy to Bobby’s family and friends. May Bobby Rest in … Read more

Leaving Cert Results 2017

Leaving Cert results will be available at the school tomorrow Wednesday 16th August 2017 from 10.00am onwards. Best of luck to all the lads!

Tomás Mac Eoin RIP

Tomas Mac Eoin, Class of 1968, has sadly passed away. He attended the last PPU dinner in Feb 2017 with his 1968 cohort, and read the citation for Jim Dowling (Hall of Fame Winner) at the 2016 dinner. He was an award winning uilleann piper in his school days, and maintained a life long interest … Read more

TY Graduation 2017

  On May 17th we celebrated the TY Graduation.  The graduation celebrates primarily the learning of new skills, personal, social, educational, and of course work-related.  Each student was presented with his individual folder of work, comprising tasks in individual subjects, results and reports thereon by the teachers, as well as all the various certificates gathered … Read more