{"id":405167,"date":"2026-04-18T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:26:10","slug":"carlow-primary-to-face-three-other-schools-in-leinster-final-of-irelands-fittest-school-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405167\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlow primary to face three other schools in Leinster Final of Ireland&#8217;s Fittest School 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlowlive.ie\/section\/793\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlow<\/a> primary school is gearing up to tackle two other schools in the Leinster Final of the Fyffes Ireland&#8217;s Fittest School 2026 competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scoil Mhuire gan Sm\u00e1l is one of four primary schools to have qualified for the live final.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by fruit importer Fyffes and tracked online, the purpose of the competition is to promote the importance of exercise, fitness, and healthy eating amongst young people.<\/p>\n<p>The Leinster final will take place at SCD Leisure Tallaght in mid-May, after which the top school from each of the Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster provincial finals will then progress to the grand final in Athlone on May 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by one of Ireland\u2019s best-known Olympians \u2013 sprinter David Gillick \u2013 the prize package will include \u20ac8,000 worth of sports equipment and the title of Ireland\u2019s Fittest School 2026.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlowlive.ie\/news\/home\/2062030\/carlow-bakers-encouraged-to-get-involved-in-national-brown-bread-baking-competition.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlow bakers encouraged to get involved in national Brown Bread Baking competition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The three other schools taking part in the Leinster final will be Wicklow\u2019s Aughrim National School, Dublin\u2019s Harold\u2019s Cross National School, and St. Helen&#8217;s Junior National School, Portmarnock.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was set up five years ago, with a key feature being\u00a0a series of exercise routines which competing schools can adopt as part of their PE curriculum and against which performance can be measured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previous competition winners were Scoil Na Croise Naofa, Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal (2022) and Gilson National School, Oldcastle, Co Meath (2023) and St Mary\u2019s Touraneena National School, Co Waterford (2024).<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Carlow primary school is gearing up to tackle two other schools in the Leinster Final of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16665,503,61,60,43,836],"class_list":["post-405167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-carlow","tag-competition","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}