St Finbarr’s is a ten teacher Boys’ National School with an enrolment of 145 pupils. It is situated on Seskin Hill, overlooking Bantry Bay. The staff comprises of an administrative Principal, six mainstream teachers, two full-time Learning Support/Resource teachers, one shared Learning Support teacher and one Language Support Teacher.

Other staff includes 5 Special Needs Assistants, a secretary and a part-time cleaner. We at St Finbarr’s have always focused on the holistic development of our pupils. In conjunction with our very high academic standards, we strive to promote and develop the pupils’ many talents in the areas of sport, IT, the Arts etc as well as fostering their self-esteem, respect for God, others and themselves.

Last Wednesday saw the running of the much anticipated Cork City Sports at Pairc Ui Chaoimh.

The Bantry Boys put in a star studded performance and the old saying “Molann an obair an fear” once again rang true. The 13 boys have worked diligently for the last 4 weeks and all their hard work bore fruit on Wednesday. The squad of 13 brought home a staggering total of 18 trophies including the Overall Trophy for the best performance of all Boys Schools in the county.

Congratulations to the teachers at St Finbarr’s, Mr B Gleeson, Mr P O’Meara and Ms G Lehane, who prepared the boys and also deserve credit for this success!

€10,000 for the school plus €10,000 for the nominated local charity i.e. CoAction West Cork.

There was great excitement at St. Finbarr's Boys' N.S.  on 26th May 2009 when representatives of Folens Ireland visited the school to formally present the top prize of €20,000 which the school won in the Folens Golden Anniversary Competition.
St. Finbarr's Boys' N.S. was chosen from hundreds of applicants nationwide for the coveted top prize.

To celebrate 50 years in business Folens Publishers held a nationwide competition inviting schools to outline how their school has worked with a local charity in the past or proposes to work with a nominated charity in the future.

As we at St. Finbarr's have had a long association with CoAction West Cork we decided to nominate them as our charity.

For some time now we have had a dream of creating an outdoor Adventure Play Area for boys and on hearing of the Folens competition it seemed an obvious choice to offer to share this facility with children from CoAction i.e. Saturday Morning Clubs and Summer Camps.