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Information Evening for Incoming First Year Parents 

Dear Parents, We are pleased to invite you to an information evening for parents of our incoming First Year students, which will take place on Wednesday the 15th April at 6:00pm in the school. This session will provide both parents and students with valuable information about the transition to secondary school. Topics will include the … Read more

Open Evening 2025

Coláiste Iósaif an Fhionnradharc now enrolling boys and girls for 2026 Open Evening on Thursday 18th September 2025 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Welcome Back to School

Dear Parents and Guardians, We are delighted to welcome all our students back for a new school year. A special welcome to our first-year families who are beginning their journey with us, we look forward to working with you in the years ahead. This week all students will receive their school journals, as well as … Read more

Fón Free Friday

This year we are excited to announce a new initiative called Fón Free Friday. Following the success of our mobile-phone free Sports Day and subsequent surveys, we have decided to trial mobile-phone free Fridays starting from next Friday 30th August. Every Friday, students will be encouraged to leave their phones at home. If they choose … Read more

Ciara McDonnell appointed as new Principal

The Board of Management would like to announce that Ciara McDonnell has been appointed as Principal for the school. Ms. McDonnell takes up the role from September 1st, 2024, succeeding the outgoing principal Seán Stack. Ms. McDonnell has been a teacher in the school since 2016, and was in the role of Deputy Principal for … Read more

St Patrick’s Day Parade- Our ‘Sparky’

Well done again to our TY group who created the walking float ‘Sparky’ which took part in the Dublin St Patrick’s Day parade. A huge amount of work went in from everyone on creating and practicing for the day in advance. In particular, well done to the 5 students who ‘walked with’ Sparky on the … Read more

PTECH Graduation – Inaugural class

On Friday 13th April 2024, the first ever Leaving Certificate PTech class graduated at a ceremony held in The Convention Centre. This programme, piloted by the three founding schools has now expanded to include a second cohort of included schools, a number of industry partners, Government departments and other agencies. The students of St. Joseph’s … Read more

Safe Routes to School Survey

Dear Parent/Guardian, We are delighted that the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programme has completed works at your school. As part of the final phase of this programme, the SRTS team would like to gather information on how students are travelling to school now since the changes were implemented. We also want to assess parent’s opinions … Read more