{"id":22326,"date":"2025-08-25T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/22326\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:35:12","slug":"county-limerick-school-appoints-new-principal-with-deep-passion-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/22326\/","title":{"rendered":"County Limerick school appoints new principal with &#8216;deep passion for education&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOIL P\u00f3l in Kilfinane has welcomed a new chapter in its history with the appointment of Mair\u00e9ad Finucane as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/232\/education\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Principal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school announced Mair\u00e9ad&#8217;s appointment, saying: &#8220;A native of Kerry, Mair\u00e9ad brings with her a wealth of experience, dedication, and energy that will no doubt enrich the life of our school community. Former Principal of Presentation Secondary School, Tralee, her leadership there has been marked by a strong commitment to student wellbeing and academic excellence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Finucane also previously served as Assistant Principal and teacher of Home Economics and Religious Education at Col\u00e1iste Chiar\u00e1in, Croom (2019\u20132023), and at Vocational School Abbeyfeale\/Col\u00e1iste \u00cdde agus Iosef (2005\u20132019). Across these roles, she demonstrated a deep passion for education and a strong belief in the potential of every student.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scoil P\u00f3l looks forward to this next chapter, and the future, under Ms Finucane\u2019s leadership. On behalf of the Board of Management, and all of our school community, we extend a warm welcome to Ms Finucane as she takes up her new role,&#8221; stated Scoil P\u00f3l, Kilfinane in a note on social media.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/community\/1874994\/past-pupils-mark-50-years-since-limerick-school-s-closure-with-major-donation.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Past pupils mark 50 years since Limerick school&#8217;s closure with major donation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former principal of the school, Michael O&#8217;Hara retired recently after 13 years at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOIL P\u00f3l in Kilfinane has welcomed a new chapter in its history with the appointment of Mair\u00e9ad Finucane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,889,2597,18,13,14,6,19,17,19124,11,12,15,16,5,4172,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-22326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-county-limerick","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-kilfinane","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-schools","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}