May, 2016 - Clongowes Wood College - Page 2

John Sullivan Thanksgiving Mass

18th May 2016

  Thanksgiving celebration for soon to be beatified Fr. John Sullivan SJ Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin diocese was the principal celebrant at the annual anniversary Mass in thanksgiving for the soon to be beatified, Venerable Fr. John Sullivan SJ, in Clongowes Wood College on Sunday 8 May. The Boys Chapel in Clongowes was full…read article

Leinster Athletics’ Success

16th May 2016

Congratulations to Jack O’Leary (above, centre), who capped off a great week for Clongowes athletics as he captured the Senior 5000m Leinster schools’ title in Santry last Saturday afternoon (May 14th). This gives Jack the impressive double of Leinster Cross Country and Leinster track titles. This was a fine addition to the medals won last Wednesday…read article

Duck Push Cake Sale

16th May 2016

On Sunday 22nd May in the Concourse after 11.00am Mass a group of boys from Transition Year will host a cake sale and coffee morning as part of our fundraising for ‘ Duck Push 2016’. We hope to improve our baking skills in the process and Ms Ann Cook, our catering manager, along with Chef…read article

Darkness into Light 2016

16th May 2016

All over the country today, in over 90 locations, people were getting up at ungodly hours to support Pieta House.  At Naas Racecourse 70 students along with Mr. Maloney, Mr. Corcoran, Mr. Carroll, Mr. O’Domhnaill, Ms. O’Loughlin and Mr Leahy SJ walked or ran 5 kilometres in the annual ‘Darkness into Light’. Darkness into Light…read article

Maths Models

16th May 2016

On Wednesday, 13th of April, James Gleeson, Professor of Industrial and Applied Mathematics at UL and Co-Director of the MACSI Consortium, returned to Clongowes for his last visit, having come twice previously in the year to help us with our mathematical models, which we had developed bit by bit throughout the year as we met…read article

Duck Push Wine

6th May 2016

This year group of Syntax students have come together and decided to raise money for the Duck Push Fund by producing some very nice Clongowes labelled wine… For more than twenty two years the Transition Year students in Clongowes Wood College have made raising money to buy a piece of life saving equipment for Crumlin…read article

Head down, eye on the ball…

4th May 2016

Connor Mulholland (Poetry) recently spent two weeks at the American Golf Academy of Biarritz under the instruction of Michael Magher, a former PGA tour player, who advanced into the top 100 golfers in the world at the peak of his career. Michael’s philosophy of the golf swing came directly from Ben Hogan’s five fundamentals of…read article

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