KCFE honours its students at first awards night

IT was a wonderful evening for students, parents and teachers alike at the Kerry College of Further Education (KCFE) campus last Thursday night, as students were rewarded for their efforts over the school year.

The awards night was the first awards night to be held under the guidance of first year Principal Mary Lucey and close to 40 awards were presented on the night.

The KCFE is an institution on the up and that is in no small part to Mary’s guidance and the work of her staff; Mary spoke on the night about her pride at seeing both the students and teachers achieve their goals.

“I’d like to welcome all the students here tonight. This is your night and we are so delighted with all the success that you had here since joining us,” said Mary.

“I have been here eight months now and it has been an absolutely wonderful time since I arrived. I’ve never met a more caring, hard working and supportive staff. I’m sure too that the students will re-iterate that,” she continued.

“Here at KCFE, we want to make it so that people don’t have to leave Kerry to get the high quality education they need,” she finished.

Local businesses such as artist John Hurley, the CARA Credit Union, the KDYS and Corinne Evans Physiotherapy, who had sponsored awards on the night were there to show their support on the night; Mary Lucey took the time to thank the local businesses for t

Some of the awards presented on the night ranged from Academic Awards such as Hotel Operations (Jenny Watton), Carers (Gary Hewitt) and Software Development (Bryan O’Shea).

A sample of some of the other awards which were presented on the night included the ‘2018 I Can Do’ award which went to Clodagh Mangan; the 2018 Achievement Awards which went to Cathal Carey, Annie Burke and Anna Healy, the 2018 Volunteer of the Year award which was presented to Samuel Kiwanuka and the 2018 Rising Star Award which went to Paul Sheerin.

All photos by Fergus Dennehy. LInda O’Shea Dowling (left) and Caroline Simpson (right) pictured presenting Bogumila Jedrzejowska with her Beauty Therapy award at the KCFE awards on Thursday night.

Rose Daly from Baile Mhuire Day Centre (left) and Mary Slattery (right) pictured with Gary Hewitt who received his Carers Award from the KCFE on Thursday night.

Michael Quirke (left) and Joe Kelly 9left) pictured presenting Rosa Ladner with her Furniture Making award at the KCFE awards on Thursday night.

Catherine Galwey (left) and Michaela Brosnan (right) pictured presenting Jeffrey Foley with his Applied Social Studies award on Thursday night.

Cathal O’Connor pictured presenting MIchael O’Shea with his Building, Construction and Joinery award at the KCFE awards on Thursday night.

Brian O’Shea (left) and Alan Johnson (right) pictured presenting Bryan O’Shea with his Software Development award at the KCFE awards night last Thursday.

Mary Murphy, teacher and course co-ordinator at the KCFE (left), Joanne Roche (right) pictured presenting Mandy O’Keeffe with her Childcare Management award on Thursday.