Category: News Update

SGS Rowing Club are into the busy summer period where senior crews are competing at regattas, individuals are trialling for the elusive ‘green jersey’ and the juniors are moving out of the training quads and into racing boats and single sculls.     This weekend the crews head to the capital where Trinity Regatta takes place on the river Liffey in the heart of Dublin. Leading the charge will be Adam Foley who is racing in the highly contested Junior

Brothers Adam & Ben Foley have been competing on the regatta scene over the last two weekends. The National Schools Regatta took place in Limerick at the end of April and showcased a total of 77 schools from all across the island of Ireland. The Sligo Grammar boys raced together in the U23 double scull category and also raced in their respective singles category. The rowers competed in a 1500 meter time trial with the top 4 going through to

The Garavogue River was host to one of the first regattas of the season – Sligo Rowing Clubs regatta took place on Saturday 18th April. The three-lane course covered a distance of 800 meters allowing for some excellent sprint racing. Close to 500 athletes from all over the West and North of Ireland participated. There were large entries from clubs like Enniskillen Royal Boat Club, Athlone, Carrick-on-Shannon and St. Josephs Secondary School (The Bish) Galway. The Grammar had 5 students entered

The rowing club are well into the busy regatta season with Sligo Regatta taking place tomorrow and the National Schools Regatta taking place in Limerick next weekend. The senior squad will have 4 rowers racing on the Garavogue – Euan Cradock, Yann McGuinness and brothers Adam & Ben Foley. The boys will be racing in various boats from quads to doubles to singles. Meanwhile the junior squad, made up of boys and girls from first and second year, continue their rowing

We entered 3 teams of 3rd year students into the IMTA ‘Pi Quiz’ maths competition, held in Summerhill College on Tuesday 24th March.One of our teams narrowly missed the 2nd place tie-break, finishing in a strong 4th position out of over 20 teams.

Euan Cradock produced a season’s best to claim bronze at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships this weekend (17/Jan/2026) in UL. The Junior 15 Mens event had an entry of 70 rowers from all over the country meaning the race had to be run over two separate timetrials. The subsequent results would be combined to get the overall leaderboard. Euan raced in the first heat and was in contention with the leaders right from the off. In the early stages of

The Grammar Rowing Club had 20 students competing at the Sligo Schools Rowing Competition which took place in the ATU yesterday.  Congratulations to Adam Foley, the fastest rower and overall winner of the event. Adam won the event with an average speed of 1.39 per 500m giving him a grand total of 1511 meters for the 5 minute test. Ronan Mullan also made it to the podium with a result of 1427 meters placing him third. Other notable results were a win for

Junior girls (U16s) win Connacht Schools Junior Cup for third time in 45 years.  Huge congratulations to our U16 girls who won the Connacht Junior Cup on Thursday last, 4th December at UoG sports grounds in Galway. The team captained by Myrtle Bamber and ably assisted by Emily Dunne produced two excellent performances in back to back matches, winning both the semi-final and final on penalty shuttles.  Goalkeeper, Aoibheann Jenkins, was the hero of the day saving 8 out of the 9 penalty shuttles

Sligo Grammar School seniors’ league semi-final took place at home on Friday 21st November. An intensely awaited game for both sides. SGS’ ferocity was clear exploding out of the blocks with Reuben Galvan smashing through St. Muredach’s College defenders for the first score of the game.  Ben O’Connor kept the score board ticking over going for a perfect 6/6 conversions from the tee. Seán O’Reilly produced a moment of niftiness chipping over the top of the defenders, gathering and sliding over

Congratulations to Diarmaid O’Connell, captain of Sligo Grammar School, SCT 2024, who played a full game in the back row at number 8 and went on to score his first try for Ireland against South Africa with the U20 Irish rugby team.  The game took place at Virgin Media Park in Cork on Friday night. (14/11/2025) A proud day for all the SGS coaches and all at Sligo Grammar School Well done Diarmaid