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    • Welcome
    • About us
    • Admissions 2025
  • Latest Information
    • Publications
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    • Our News >
      • 2020/2021 News
      • 2019/2020 News
      • In the news
      • Photo Archive
    • Events >
      • Christmas Market
      • Careers Fair 2019
      • Musicals
      • Comp Quiz
      • Comp Golf Classic '22
    • Calendar
    • State Exams >
      • Race Applications
    • House Exams
    • Inspection Reports
  • Curriculum
    • Book Lists
    • Senior Cycle Redevelopment
    • Curricula >
      • Junior Cycle
      • Transition Year (TY) >
        • Transition Year 2022/2023
        • Transition Year News 2021/2022
        • Transition Year News 2020/2021
        • Transition Year News 2019/2020
      • Leaving Cert Applied >
        • LCA News
      • Leaving Cert
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          • POP! Art Exhibition
    • Supervised Study
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    • Supervised Study
    • COMP Creativity
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    • Green Schools >
      • #CompGoesGreen
    • Lunch Clubs
    • Mentoring
    • Girls in STEM
    • Comp-Pix Media Club >
      • Hope 2021 Exhibition
      • Home Sweet Home Exhibition >
        • Home Sweet Home 2
  • Policies
  • Collaboration & Cooperation
    • Fundraising >
      • Collaborate with The Comp >
        • The Comp Counts
        • Musicals at The Comp
        • Astroturf Campaign
    • Shannon Guingamp Exchange '23
    • Bláth Garden
    • Student Council >
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    • Have your say...
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History

Established in 1966 as Ireland's first Comprehensive School, St. Patrick's is renowned locally, nationally and internationally as a centre of excellence for learning and educational development.

St. Patrick's is an integral part of Shannon and makes its state of the art facilities available to the local community.

We recommend you visit the RTÉ archive site on the link below to get an insight into the founding of Shannon town.


Building a Community

Mission statement

St. Patrick’s Comprehensive School is committed to excellence.
We provide equality of opportunity for all students in a disciplined and caring environment.
We encourage individual students to achieve their full potential and to relate positively to one another and to the community in which they live.
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Ethos

St. Patrick's Comprehensive School is a Catholic co-educational school under the joint trusteeship of the Bishop of Killaloe and Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board. St. Patrick's Comprehensive serves not only the Catholic community, but also in a rapidly changing and pluralist society, is committed to the ecumenical developments of our time and in the inclusive spirit of openness and multi-denominational service endeavours to serve many in the entire local community/. The school seeks to provide a Christian environment in which students find encouragement to develop spiritual and moral values, personal and social skills and the highest  standards of excellence of which they are capable in all aspects of their school activities. We recognise the complimentary roles of parents and teachers in educating the young and, in partnership, we pursue the common aim of educating our students according to Christian principles. 

Celebrating 50 years of St. Patrick's Comprehensive School

In 2016 we celebrated our 50th anniversary. Here is a little video highlighting some of our time here in Shannon.

DAILY SCHEDULE

  • Classes begin each morning at 9 am.
  • Morning break is from 11 am to 11.15 am
  • Lunchtime is from 1.15 to 2pm
  • Classes finish at 4 pm on Monday and Tuesday ​and at 3.20 pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
  • Class periods are 40 min. each​
  • Please note that students may not leave the school at the 11 o clock break but may do so at lunchtime with written parental permission.

Teaching staff

Principal: Mary Costello
Deputy Principal: Sharon Brooks
Deputy Principal: Ciara Golden

Ahern, Elaine 
Behan, Padraig 
Boyce, Sean 
Buckley, Josephine 
Coleman, Aoife

Colleran, Imelda 
​Commane, Christina

Cooney, Amy 
Curran, Sabrina 
Daly, David 
Davoren, Conor 

Dineen, Aileen 
Flanagan, Gráinne
Frawley, Daniel 
Frost, Laura 
Gallery, Pauline 
Garvey, Enda 
Gilbourne, Elena 
Graham,Sarah 
Griffin Deirdre 
Hayes,Sally Anne
Haugh, Dominic 
Hickey, Marguerite

Hickey, Siobhan 
​Hogan, Jacob
Justice, Jennifer
Keane, Cathy
Kelleher, Jane 
Kennedy, Nicola
​Killeen, Grace
Kirby, Jamie
​Leonard, Leona
Magee, Emer 
​Maxwell, Jean
McDonnell, Edel 
McGuane Edel Ms.
McInerney, Gemma 
​McMahon, Eimear
Mulvihill, Eimear 
Murphy, Jacquie 
Norris, Mairéad
Nugent, Yvonne 
O'Domhnaill, Damien 
O'Donnell, Eva 
​O'Grady, Cora 
O'Grady, Mairéad 
O'Halloran, David
O'Hara, Clodagh 
O'Keeffe Siobhan 
O'Sullivan, Helena
​O'Sullivan, Donna
Scanlon Suzanne 
Schous Anika 
Shannon, Marion 
​Sloan, Louise
Spaight Patricia 
Tarpey, Éilis
Zupa, Ivana

A decade in The Comp.

St. Patrick's Comprehensive School, Shannon, Co. ClarE. V14 Y434


Hours

M & T: 9am - 4pm
W - F 9am - 3.20pm

Telephone

061-361428

Email

[email protected]
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