St Mary's Student Union Belfast

Thank you to everyone who donated to our Fantasy Football league in aid of

£440 donated to a more than worthwhile cause.

Keep Caolan in your prayers a chairde.

Go raibh maith agaibh 🇱🇻

🚨ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS🚨
We are running our annual Fantasy football league again this year. It is open to anyone who wishes to participate.

This year all proceeds raised will be donated to

You can enter by paying your fee to [email protected] on PayPal, make sure to select ‘Friends and Family’ when making the payment. Make sure to quote your name in the reference and send us a screenshot on Instagram confirming your donation and we can send you the league code across.

Go raibh maith agaibh! Spread the Word! 🇱🇻🇱🇻🤝🏼✨

As a Students’ Union, we would like to release a statement to condemn the acts of violence across Belfast, and further afield. We stand in solidarity with those who are experiencing racism, xenophobia and violence.

Best of luck to our past and current students who are playing in their respective junior and intermediate All-Ireland finals this Sunday💚🤍❤️🤍

Fermanagh ladies take on Louth in the All-Ireland junior final - best of luck to our current student Niamh McManus, and our past BEd and MSc student Molly McGloin🇳🇬

Tyrone ladies take on Leitrim in the intermediate final, and we are represented by 4 past students - Caitlin Donnelly, Meabh Corrigan, Niamh McElduff and Ciara Colton🇵🇱

Best of luck to all 6 girls, we are so proud of you all🙌

Comhghairdeas, Ard Mhacha🧡

We are extremely proud to see our ex-VP lifting Sam Maguire on behalf of all the Armagh lads today🧡🏆

Congratulations to all our current and past students, and a particular congratulations to GAA Uachtarán Jarlath Burns who is the first GAA president to present Sam to his son’s winning team, both proud St. Mary’s men🧡

Best of luck to all at in the All-Ireland football final this weekend!🧡🔥🙌

We are delighted, and proud to be able to say that nine of the Armagh panel are either graduates of the College, including three who have already had a taste of success with the college being part of our 2017 Sigerson Cup winning team, or current students. Best of luck especially to Aidan, captain and ex-VP, Aaron, Oisin and Aidan, graduates and Sigerson winners, Jarly Óg, Cian and James, who are graduates, and and , current students of our own.

Goalkeeping Coach Ciarán McKinney is also a Graduate of the College.

Here are a few photos of some of the lads representing the Ranch🇱🇻 We are proud of you all lads, Ranch spirit never dies🙌

Ádh ollmhór oraibh uilig!

Great day spent with our colleagues at INTO, a productive start to the year! 🇱🇻

⚠️National Student Survey 2024⚠️

Make sure to fill out this years NSS through the link sent to you via email😃

We want to hear what you have to say 💪🏻

🔥 Bonkers Bingo 2024 photo dump 🔥

🎨🕺🏻Photo dump from our 2023 UV party 🎨 🕺🏻

Some snaps from our Jersey Night on Monday in the Points Bar Belfast 🔥🕺🏻🪩

🌟 SAVE THE DATE🌟 Wednesday 25th October - UV Night 🎨🪩👽

Students’ Union Executive 2023/24 (2/2)

Students’ Union Executive 2023/24 (1/2)

We are officially signing off as your Students’ Union President and Vice-President. We have spent four amazing years here at St. Mary’s😬, and now it’s time for us to face the ‘real’ world and come back to St. Mary’s as MSc students. 😋

We want to send a huge thank you to all students and members of staff for helping us have the best year in the SU this year! We want to thank you all for your energy and the amazing atmosphere that you have as St. Mary’s. Students, we loved your willingness to participate in our various sports teams, our class nights out, and our college events - like the College Musical, and our Mental Health Week.

We are passing the baton onto Dara and Niall, who will take up their roles as President and VP very soon. We wish them and their SU team the very best of luck and know that they will do a fantastic job!

We will miss St. Mary’s SU very much and will always hold the college very dearly in our hearts. One piece of advice for you all, whether you are staying to finish your degree, or graduating this year; take every opportunity, get involved and make the most of your experience.

We hope to see you again somewhere in the future to see how you’re getting on, but for now – tógaigí go bog é (take it easy)!

Colin and Jervis Óg

📣FINAL YEARS📣

Doors will open at 6PM for tonight’s formal with the food being served at 7🍽️

There will be no seating plan so seats are first come first serve.

SU Elections 🗳️☑️

Congratulations to all of the candidates that were elected to Union for 2023/24!

Voting opens tomorrow morning at 9AM for our SU elections on QOL!

✨St. Mary’s SU Elections✨

Running for Women’s Officer🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

Claire Teague

📚EXAM SEASON📚

Here are some Top Tips for the upcoming Exams!!

Don’t be afraid to give us a shout if you would like any help or need a chat!!☕️

It was great to have a past student back in the college on Wednesday talking about her book Struggling to Breathe, a diary detailing her struggles with mental health and eating disorders.

❗️SMUCB Sports Day❗️

Reminder that our Sports Day is this Wednesday from 2:30pm up at Davitts GAC. All welcome for a good days craic🫡

Anybody looking to enter a team for the 7s tournament make sure to get them into us ASAP! 🏐

🗓️Wednesday 26th April
🕐1PM
📍Lecture Theatre 1

Niamh Brownlee is a past student of St Mary's, graduating with a BEd in Primary Education with English.

She has now published a book called 'Struggling to Breathe' which is the actual diary she kept as a psychiatric inpatient 5 years ago when she was ill with depression and an eating disorder.

Niamh had been struggling with her mental health throughout her time in St Mary's but didn't feel able to open up to anyone or ask for the help she needed.

All proceeds Niamh receives from the sales of the book are going to Aware NI and The Eating Disorders Association NI. She hopes her book will give an insight into mental illness and offer hope that recovery is possible and help and support is available.

Niamh will be returning to the college on 26th April to speak to students and staff about her experiences and explain how she got herself well.

If you would like to buy a book in the meantime, you can do so online from www.beyondthepalebooks.com

Just two dudes talking about how good the new college jumpers are🤷🏻‍♂️

These bad boys are available up in the union

☘️☘️St. Patrick’s Day Message☘️☘️

☘️☘️St. Patrick’s Day message☘️☘️

Urgent Information about placement due to the adverse weather conditions.

Please make contact with your placement provider to check if they are open.

🏐Sigerson Football🏐

Tomorrow sees our footballers head down country to face in the 2nd Round of the Sigerson Cup

📍 Sligo IT Sports Complex
⏱️ 7:00 throw in
🆚 Sligo IT
🏆 Sigerson Cup R2

Starting Team released tomorrow!!

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🎉Ranch Returns🎉

Last Ranch night out before teach practice begins! Tickets in our bio

Traffic light rules
🔴 Taken
🟡 Situationship
🟢 Single

🏐Sigerson football returns🏐

Tomorrow sees our footballers return to face in the 1st Round of the Sigerson Cup

📍 Carlow IT Sports Complex
⏱️ 7:30 throw in
🆚 Carlow IT
🏆 Sigerson Cup R1

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🎅🏻Nollaig Shona Daoibh 🎅🏻

We would like to wish all of our students both past and present a very Happy Christmas.

We can’t wait to see everyone back in the New Year!!