Author: Aine Corcoran

22nd May 2016

Name                                Faith Friend Eoghan Cumbers              Charlie Coonan Luc Curley                         Seán McCrohan Oisín Devitt                  …read article

20th May 2016

20th May 2016

Transition Year student, Sean Monaghan was a member of The Irish Under 16 Pony Show Jumping Team that won the Nations Cup in Odense, Denmark on Saturday, May 21st. Each member of the winning team, including Sean on Orchids Vienna, jumped a clear round to give the Irish team victory on an incredible zero penalty…read article

20th May 2016

UNION DAY TEDDY BEARS PICNIC COMPETITION Last year at Union Day we had the inaugural Teddy Bears Picnic competition which was a big success. Lots of children participated, setting up some wonderful Teddy Bear picnics. We would like to make this a feature of Union Day, particularly for our younger guests! Entry is €5. The…read article

20th May 2016

‘Young people can’t listen anymore’ was a remark made recently at a social gathering to storyteller Niall de Burca, who made his annual appearance in Clongowes recently. He didn’t agree and neither do the many students in Clongowes, who have been entertained by his unique brand of storytelling over the years. We were lucky Niall…read article

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

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

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

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

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