Month: February 2015

10th February 2015

For three heart-stopping minutes and forty nail-biting seconds yesterday, the spellbound crowd in Donnybrook watched as wave after wave of St Michael’s players broke on the Clongowes line, only to be repulsed time after time by the the defence. The Kildare school was leading by six points at the time and many of their supporters…read article

10th February 2015

Came across this great list of reads today for young adults on the World Book Day website. http://worldbookday.com/writes-of-passage/ The majority of these titles are available in the James Joyce Library and are in regular circulation. It is reassuring that the library is up to speed with young adult literature . World Book Day will be…read article

9th February 2015

9th February 2015

Tickets on Sale February 10th for The Bicentenary Celebration 16th May 2015  https://pay.easypaymentsplus.com/feepay1.aspx?id=288  

7th February 2015

Relentless Clongowes Fall Short The Clongowes JCT drew something of a short straw when faced with favourites Blackrock in their first outing last Friday (February 6th). It was a match that bore some resemblances to last year’s SCT final between the two schools, and ‘Clongowes Digest’ was lucky to have the talented pen of Barry…read article

6th February 2015

Making the ordinary, extraordinary On the 16th January, six boys from Syntax (Lorcáin O’Shea, Lorcan Barrett, Michael O’Brien, Shane Hogan, Sean Ojejinmi and Conor Galvin) and four boys from Poetry (Jack Savage, Hugh Farrell, Steven-Thomas Gray and Andrew Corrigan) headed to Athlone to the Leinster Session of the European Youth Parliament. The theme of the…read article

6th February 2015

4th February 2015

‘I’ve won Heineken Cups, I’ve played for Ireland, I’ve been to a World Cup; but some of my best rugby memories come from my days in Clongowes. Every kid dreams of playing professionally, I was no different, but back then you’re not playing for personal gain, you’re playing with and for your best mates… and…read article

2nd February 2015

Fundraising for Cancer Research Next Thursday, 5th February, in conjunction with The Caroline Foundation we are going to have an AWARENESS RIBBON DAY. The Caroline Foundation (a constituent of Prof. John Crown’s Cancer Clinical Research Trust [www.ccrt.ie]) was set up in 2013 in memory of Caroline Dwyer-Hickey, who died aged 35 having lived with cancer for nine years. The focus of…read article

2nd February 2015

Clongownians of Distinction: A guide to the Serpentine Collection Last Tuesday evening, 27th January, in Clongowes Clongownians of Distinction: A guide to the Serpentine Collection, by Dr Harman Murtagh (on the right in the picture) was launched by Mr John Bruton the President of the Clongowes Union. The Headmaster Fr Leonard Moloney SJ introduced proceedings and the Rector, Fr…read article