edel farrell

teacher, mother, dog lover. she/her

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

And that’s the sign off for the graduating Class of 2026 at Coláiste Chiaráin.

We are incredibly proud of this year group and everything they achieved during their time in CCO. Wishing them all the best for whatever comes next.

[CCOScience @CcoScience]

A special moment; founder member of @CcoScience and @SciFest4STEM winner presenting current member Tomás with the Boston Scientific Medical Decices Award at Scifest today. We are so proud of both of them! @colaiste

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

🎉 SciFest 2026 Success! 🎉

An incredible day for our students, bringing home 11 prizes 🏆, a true reflection of their hard work, creativity & dedication to STEM

Huge thanks to our fantastic staff for their support

👉 list of winners on our Instagram⬇️
https://t.co/rrMYqo3Rwt

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

Great news!!

We’ve won the IMTA Pi Quiz today and are through to the All-Ireland Finals 🇮🇪

Four teams represented the school, with the winning team of Sonia Holmes, Kainoa Navarro, Tadhg Twomey & Zuhaa Sarmad.

Well done to Una & all involved — fantastic achievement! 👏

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

More 🏆 at the All Ireland Light Entertainment Awards!

🏆 All-Ireland Champions + Best Director
🏆 Best Individual: Harry Moriarty
🏆 Judges’ Awards: Mia Rouziers & Cormac Clancy

Judges praised the performance as “outstanding” with many students tipped for future acting careers

[CCOScience @CcoScience]

So proud of all our stripe young scientists!

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

A huge welcome to our visitors from Springford High School, Pennsylvania, who arrived this morning at Shannon Airport for the second leg of our Limerick to Limerick 2026 Exchange with Coláiste Chiaráin. 🇮🇪🇺🇸

We’re looking forward to two fantastic weeks

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith should not be underestimated.

Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.

Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.

8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.

9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.

10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.

11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.

12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.

3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.

This system has no inputs.

It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.

Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.

It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.

Keith got out again.

[CCOScience @CcoScience]

Huge congratulations to @CcoScience @colaiste form 5 student Lillie Li who has been accepted on the Research Science Institute Summer programme at MIT. 100 students worldwide are selected to take part in science and technology research for seven weeks in Boston. Well done Lillie!

[edel farrell @delzer09]

@chefsevenn Perfect

[edel farrell @delzer09]

@ronsterd89 Soccer

[edel farrell @delzer09]

@Matt_Pinner 20

[edel farrell @delzer09]

@DWTSIRL Did Oti just say Stop The Lights?!!!!!

[edel farrell @delzer09]

@Mr_Husky1 Yes

[edel farrell @delzer09]

@MonaleenCamogie Well done Girls!!

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

Congratulations to our past student Rejwanal Islam, who was honoured with an Entrance Exhibition Award at Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin

It was a pleasure to attend the celebration and see his hard work recognised. Rejwanal is settling in brilliantly to his Dentistry course.

[edel farrell @delzer09]

@Matt_Pinner Eh.....20

[Leona O'Neill @LeonaONeill1]

Ma’am I don’t think you understand, you’re talking to a Northern Irish reporter. Our journalists were raised on political chaos, whataboutery, deflection, irate reps, shouty insults. We’re experts in operating successfully in circuses. Your silly outburst is just a Tuesday to us

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

All roads lead to Dublin! Our Coláiste Chiaráin Stripe Young Scientist Team 2026 setting off from Limerick this morning — here’s to another exciting journey ahead 🙌 #StripeYSTE2026
@StripeYSTE
@patrickc @Limerick_Leader @limerickpost @ilovelimerick @Live95Limerick

[Coláiste Chiaráin @colaiste]

Chloe, Adam & Liam are attracting serious interest at the Stripe Young Scientist Competition in Dublin.

Their project focuses on developing a Chrome extension that optimises ChatGPT prompts to deliver more efficient and streamlined outputs.
@StripeYSTE #StripeYSTE2026