Year: 2013

9th November 2013

Ms Ann Cooke, the very popular Catering Manager in Clongowes was recently awarded Business Manager of the Year Ireland 2013 by her employers, Sodexo at their Star Awards ceremony… ‘This award recognises a truly outstanding manager who fully demonstrates the best of Sodexo. Ann has demonstrated the highest standard of satisfaction for Clongowes Wood College…read article

8th November 2013

Mr. Noel Mason is leading this year’s Team Hope Shoe Box Appeal here at C.W.C. Take a few minutes out to put together a Christmas Box and give a needy child the Christmas they deserve. Follow the instructions below and when you’re ready just drop off your Wrapped Shoebox to Mr. Mason or to his…read article

7th November 2013

If there is one thing to be said about Shakespeare, it’s that at times his language can seem a tad… Dated. This can lead many students struggling to understand and connect with his works, and so impair their exam preparation. In order to rectify this, Boil in the Bag Productions visited the school on Tuesday,…read article

5th November 2013

The recent EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards night saw not one, but two winners from among our alumni in the persons of Patrick Joy (OC 1969 – centre) and Brian Hogan (OC 1970 – fourth from right). They received their awards from another successful past pupil, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton…read article

4th November 2013

This year, the Rudiments Parent Day will take place on Sunday 10th November 2013 as indicated on the school calendar. The focus of the day will be a 2008 publication by Fr. Brian Grogan S.J. Alone and On Foot, a biography on the life of St. Ignatius. The book ‘allows Ignatius to tell his own…read article

29th October 2013

Erik Vaughan from Kilgowan, Co. Kildare is an Old Clongownian (2007) making great strides in the musical world. As part of a new and exciting band, Shadows and Dust, Erik (bass, mandolin & vocals) continues to nurture the potential that was first unearthed under the tuition of Mr. Philip Thomas. With a fast growing following,…read article

25th October 2013

As the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness nears its end and the days begin to shorten appreciably the hardworking pupils and staff of Clongowes prepare to hibernate for a week and gather their collective strength for the very full calendar that awaits them on the other side of Samhain, always mindful of Ghoulies and…read article

24th October 2013

On the 10th of October, 2013, the boys of Rhetoric set out from Clongowes for their annual retreat in four different locations across the country, from Newry, to Roscrea. There were also two groups staying in Dublin, one at Manresa in Clontarf and another at Orlagh House in the Dublin Mountains from where Dillon Hennessy sent this…read article

23rd October 2013

Poetry were certainly putting their best foot forward on Tuesday night last when they were invited to Mt. Sackville, Castleknock for a ceilí in aid of St. Vincent De Paul.  So, with best formal dress on, dancing shoes polished and a ‘bus filled with enough after shave to fuel a NASA launch, the boys from…read article

22nd October 2013

Jack Kavanagh is an Old Clongownian (2011) who had a serious accident last year. He is now wheelchair bound, with a C5 injury, which means that he has no feeling below his upper chest, has limited use of his arms, but no use of his hands or fingers. Since then Jack has consistently achieved beyond…read article