Yearly Activities:

• Opening of Year Mass 
• Alzheimer Hero Day:  Students sell fridge magnets and badges around the town to raise funds for The Alzheimer Society of Ireland. 
• Senior Retreats. These retreats are held in Mount St. Anne’s Retreat Centre for 5^th and 6^th year students.
• Christmas Child Appeal : students donate varied toys, sweets etc. are were placed into wrapped shoe boxes and collected by Nancy Nolan on behalf of The Samaritan’s Purse, Operation Christmas Child Appeal. These gifts are to be distributed to children who otherwise may not have got any gifts for Christmas.
• The Advent Wreath is assembled by 6^th year students and placed in the foyer.
• Class by class Penitential Services are held for Advent.
• The Meitheal leaders bring first year students for a fun filled day trip to Dublin, which in the past included visiting the Ice Rink in Smithfield and Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. One of many activities held by Meitheal leaders during the year including a raffle, a rag day, school discos, meditations for first years etc.
• The Christmas crib, tree and decorations are put up by the 2^nd year students.
• Class by class meditations are held for Christmas.
• On St. Brigid’s Day, Mary Sweeney from Trocaire comes to talk to students about the work her agency does worldwide. Mary focused on East Timor in particular during her last presentation.
• Our School Chaplain Fr. Merrigan comes in to bless the throats of students and staff on the Febr. 3^rd, the Feast of St. Blaise.
• Blessed Ashes are distributed by Fr. Merrigan on Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the Lenten Season.
• St. Paul’s was one of two Kildare and two Carlow Secondary Schools who were invited to the Press Release Launch of the 2005 Trocaire Lenten Appeal in the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. The event was held in the Standhouse Hotel, The Curragh, Co. Kildare. The Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin and Trocaire are linking up this Lent to promote another element of the Diocesan ‘Reach Out’ campaign, which involves a special emphasis on supporting the ongoing development work of Trocaire in Ethiopia and their Lent 2005 theme: ‘Ethiopia, Help Make Poverty History’. To Launch the Lenten Appeal the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Dr. Jim Moriarty was joined by the Archbishop of Addis Abeba Ethiopia, His Grace Abune Berhaneyesus Souraphiel (meaning Light of Jesus). Sean Farrell from Trocaire talked us through a slideshow of photographs, giving us a very real impression of what life is like in the Ethiopian village of Dansa and Badada, the two sisters featured in this years campaign. Three fifth year students; Paul Broughall, Emma Flynn and Sabrina Harrison represented their school at the launch and they were accompanied by their religion teacher Ellen Sunderland and Fr. Merrigan. The atmosphere was very relaxed and friendly and the students got to talk openly to the Bishop and Archbishop, as they joined our table for lunch.