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Principal:	Mr. Denis Cotter
Deputy Principal:	Mrs Geraldine Purcell
School Chaplains:	Fr Paul Waldron PP
Chairperson of Board:	Mrs Maeve Cullinane
Class Teachers:	Ms. Annette Lynch	2nd Class
	Ms. Aine Hennessey	2nd Class & 3rd Class
	Ms. Vicki White	3rd Class
	Ms. Deirdre Mullan	4th Class
	Ms. Tara Comerford	5th Class
	Mr. Conor Horan	5th Class & 6th Class
	Ms. Deirdre Walsh	6th Class
Special Education Team	Mrs Geraldine Purcell
	Ms. Deirdre Lonergan
	Mr. Stephen Earley
Secretary:	Ms. Alex Clifford
Caretaker:	Mr Tony Hogan
Maintenance Staff:	Ms. Pauline Quinn
	Ms. Natalie Murphy

Departmental Guidelines state that in the event of emergency school closures the first three days of the Easter break must be used.

Mission Statement

Our School is committed to create the best possible happy, healthy environment, where each pupil has an opportunity to develop to his full potential - spiritually, emotionally, socially, physically and adacemically, for personal and family life, for working life, for living in the community and for leisure.

 

History

Edmund Rice and Thomas Dunphy, a wine merchant from Dungarvan, in consultation with the Parish Priest of Carrick-on-Suir, decided to build a school and monastery on a site in Ballylynch for the education of poor boys. 

The building of the first school began beside the present Brothers’ monastery on Pill Road in 1805 and was completed as a large classroom in October of that year. The first pupils were enrolled in January 1806 and had two Christian Brothers as well as Mr.Thomas Dunphy as teachers. The school was further extended in 1818.  By the early 1860’s, the Town Commissioners gave a site free of charge for a new school on the Fair Green.  This building consisted of two very large classrooms and was able to accommodate the overflow from the Monastery as the original school became known as. The school in the Fair Green became known as ‘The Green School’ from the mid 1860’s.  

Photo taken from "Carrick on Suir and it's People" by Patrick C Power. 

Primary school boys left the convent after they had finished first class and First Communion and transferred to the Green School where they remained to the end of fourth class. They completed fifth and sixth classes up at the Monastery. In 1935 Irish became the medium through which all subjects were taught, English and Religion being the exceptions. Just after the War in 1944 the Green School was extended, the two very large classrooms were reconstructed to form three good sized classrooms, a new toilet block was also built. The new extension was opened and blessed on Sunday December 3^rd1944. 

During the winter of 1947 the school was closed for three weeks due to the prevalence of snow and flu. The number of pupils steadily increased and space was in short supply. In 1960 there were 379 pupils on roll and two years later this had increased to 398, the highest ever. Burke's Asylum housed two classes and the Foresters' Hall a further class, while four senior classes were schooled in two large rooms in the Monastery. Negotiations began with the Department of Education in October 1960 about the possibility of providing a new primary school. Five years later, on the 4^thSeptember 1965 the new ten classroom school was officially opened and blessed. For the first time in a hundred years all the pupils in the Green School were under one roof.

The new Greenschool was built by Dugan Bros of Templemore. It cost 70,000 pounds and the local contribution was 10,000. The Green School's official name is Scoil Mhuire na mBráithre. The last Christian Brother to teach there retired in 2007.