Coláiste Ailigh in

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, is a

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(a secondary school offering a curriculum taught through the

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). Formerly located at Sprackburn House in

Letterkenny Letterkenny ( ga, Leitir Ceanainn , meaning 'hillside of the O'Cannons'), nicknamed 'the Cathedral Town', is the largest and most populous town in County Donegal, a county in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Letterkenny lies on the R ...

, it opened in 2000, becoming the

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's third All-Irish School. Pupils from the surrounding areas of

Carrigart Carraig Airt (anglicised as Carrigart or Carrickart) is a small Gaeltacht village in the barony of Kilmacrennan to the north of County Donegal, Ireland. The village is on the R245 route between Letterkenny and Creeslough. Situated as it is at th ...

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and

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also enrolled in the school. The

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allowed it to build a new school in 2008; this was completed by November 2013. It includes a gym, sport hall, cafeteria and full-sized

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pitch. Built to hold 350 students, the school currently has about 270 students. Its principal is Micheál Ó Giobúin. In 2007 the school received a €2,000 prize for PE equipment for at the active School Awards held in The Helix in

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. It was one of only two schools in Donegal to avail of the funds, the other being

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. Awards were presented based on achievements in placing PE, physical activity and sport to the forefront during Active School Week and during the school year.''DN'' supplement with ''

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'', 11 May 2007, page 3. It also takes part in the

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and has won many prizes, (for example, the 2010 second place in the junior groups category for biological and ecological sciences and second place in senior individual social and behavioural sciences).

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Coláiste Ailigh on Donegal VEC
2000 establishments in Ireland Educational institutions established in 2000 Gaelcholáiste Irish-language schools and college Schools in Letterkenny Secondary schools in County Donegal {{ireland-school-stub