By Dan Walsh
Marshalstown National School will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its opening next Thursday, June 20th, with Bishop Ger Nash as the chief celebrant at 7pm Mass followed by a visit to the school, and afterwards there will be tea in the Community Centre,
It is an open event, and the school management would like to extend a warm invitation to all present and past pupils, their parents, friends, all parishioners, and the wider Marshalstown community to celebrate this great occasion.
Marshalstown National School (Scoil Íosaf Naofa) has about 200 pupils on the rolls and the Principal is Michelle O’Neill.
Pupils and teachers, Maurice Lyons, Mrs Kinsella and Mrs Lyons, moved into the new Marshalstown school on October 1st, 1973, after it was built on a two acre site in a location known locally as “the Priest’s Field.” It has been significantly enlarged and modernised within the passing decades. (History Source; Marshalstown & Castledockrell Parish Journal, pub. 2003).
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