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Students and staff from St. Joseph’s Community College, Charlestown, Mayo Sligo & Leitrim ETB who’s project won the national award for excellence in education
Mayo Sligo and Leitrim Education & Training Board (MSLETB) scooped the national award for Education at this year’s ETB Excellence Awards, held in Croke Park as part of ETB Week 2025, which showcases Ireland’s sixteen ETBs and the services they provide to learners of all ages.
The Revolutionary Women of Mayo 1918-1923 Project, by St. Joseph’s Community College, Charlestown, won the national 2025 Excellence in Education award.
The project examined the forgotten lives of revolutionary women and the valuable duties they carried out during the Irish War of Independence & the Civil War.
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MSLETB were also runners up in the Award for Excellence in Equality with their Level 5 Specific Purpose Certificate in Workplace Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion developed by Ballina Training Centre.
The Awards, hosted by former ETB learner and RTE Newsreader Ray Kennedy and featuring a special musical performance by former ETB student and singer-songwriter Tolü Makay, highlighted learner and staff excellence across primary, secondary, further education & training, and youth services.
Opening the event and addressing over 200 staff and learners from across Ireland’s ETBs, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD said: “Congratulations on winning an ETB Excellence Award. Your dedication reminds us that education is not just about what we learn, it is about what we become. It is about pushing limits, breaking barriers, and striving for excellence every single day.”
The Excellence Awards were the flagship event for ETB Week 2025, which also included
the launch of a landmark book on ETBs edited by former Education Editor of the Irish Independent Katherine Donnelly: Education & Training Boards: Shaping the Future, leaving no one behind;
Muintearas’25: a ground breaking event bringing ETB Irish-medium schools together for the first time to celebrate and commit to inclusive Irish medium education; and
events across the 16 ETBs to promote their services.
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