Brilliant must listen🎧podcast to hear Charlie talk about his incredible journey from the GAA to New Orleans Saints kicker in #NFL .🏐🏈
Thank you Thomas & Oisin - a very special GAA Social Podcast🎙️
St Mary's SU SMUCB Sport

Charlie you were brilliant on the The Late Late Show & you will be brilliant in the #NFL with New Orleans Saints ⚜️🏈

So proud of you Charlie 🙌
An outstanding performance on the The Late Late Show🏐
You even mentioned St Mary’s twice. 😁🇱🇻
Go New Orleans Saints ⚜️🏈

Not only one Down man on the The Late Late Show tonight…

Class. Good luck Charlie Smyth

Take good care of him Patrick Kielty 🫡😂

Best wishes to our MSc student Charlie tonight on The Late Late Show
Swapping St Mary’s for New Orleans New Orleans Saints 🏈
A future #NFL Superstar 🌟

‘I was just some kid who had a dream’
Great listen 🎧 when you realise that Charlie only started kicking an American football 🏈 7 months ago.
An incredible achievement 🙌.
Happy to say that I’m one of the many new New Orleans Saints fans.⚜️

Charlie is back home on Irish soil ☘️
Looking good in the New Orleans Saints cap🏈

It really did happen….🏈
Charlie Smyth is a Saint⚜️

He is the first Irish person to sign via the NFL International Player Pathway.

(Visual credit NFL UK)

Privileged to have signed with the New Orleans Saints . The real work starts now! #WHODAT ⚜️

Our MSc student Charlie Smyth will now be swapping the St Mary's jersey for the New Orleans Saints jersey.🏐🏈
From the #GAA to the #NFL via his club Mayobridge GAC, his school St.Colman's College, Newry, his county Official Down GAA & his College St Mary's.

Saint Smyth: County Down NFL IPP athlete
Charlie Smyth has signed with the New Orleans Saints, per source.

Congratulations to all at Leader Kicking - Tadhg Leader, Conor Mangan - life changing opportunities & Paul Sheehy team!

In July 2019, Charlie Smyth had just left St.Colman's College, Newry in Newry, before St Mary’s University College Belfast. Only 18, he emailed NFL UK asking how he could develop his kicking.

Today, Charlie will work out w/ the New Orleans Saints. The IPP & Leader Kicking has changed everything.

Ádh Mór Charlie.

Great catching up with John Brolly this evening & being reminded of this brilliant Ted Talk I had the pleasure of working to produce with the late Patrick Johnston. Worth a watch! Imagining Success Through Failure | Patrick Johnston | #TEDx youtu.be/eoYim08bynA?si…

St Mary’s was delighted to welcome academic staff from James Madison University to further develop the partnership between the College & the U.S. institution. Visiting from JMU were Professor Kristina J. Doubet, Associate Professor Dr Angela Webb & Assistant Professor Chris Hass.

Our final ‘Inspiring Insights’ speaker was a young student who set up his own company during lock down & has sold over 70,000 shirts worldwide. Rory McLaughlan is currently studying at QUB & created the highly successful ‘Mystery Shirt in a Box’ company.
#InspiringInsights

Thank you to Economy NI for the invitation to their Skill Up Celebration event.
St Mary’s students Lisa Hickson & Sarah Mussen, who are currently taking part in the programme, had the opportunity to share the positive impact on their teaching with Moira Doherty.

Now Group CEO Maeve Monaghan shared her passion for the projects that her organisation are providing to support people with learning difficulties with our Liberal Arts students. She encouraged them to ‘Make a difference’ & take a ‘Solutions focused’ approach to everything in life

St Mary’s welcomed a delegation of faculty & staff from Belmont University, Nashville, to the College who heard about the positive transformation taking place in Belfast as the result of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement.