Author: Aine Corcoran

26th March 2014

Sunday 16th March, RDS – Kick off 2pm The History: Clongowes Wood College has met Blackrock College in the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup Final nine times since 1887 (1927, 1928, 1936, 1949, 1953, 1981, 1990, 1995 + 2004) but has always been second best. This year’s team has the potential to make history and become the first ever CWC team to beat Blackrock in…read article

24th March 2014

Beginning on Monday the 24th March we will celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge in Coláiste Choill Chluana Gabhann (the college of the wood of the meadow of the blacksmith) for those who may have wondered what Clongowes actually meant. I would like to thank all teachers in advance of this for their cooperation and whatever cúpla focal…read article

20th March 2014

Surprisingly, before last Sunday’s final it had been 10 years since the fiercest of Senior Cup rivals last met at this stage of the competition. That day a monstrous forward unit and a Luke Fitzgerald inspired backline eventually wore down a feisty Clongowes challenge fronted by Irish internationals Rob Kearney and Fergus McFadden. Many people…read article

17th March 2014

Leinster schools rugby players tog out for Jack Kavanagh Trust. Yesterday’s Leinster School’s Senior Cup Final was an extraordinary match and a roller-coaster ride for Clongowes supporters. The day will live long in our collective memory and a fuller account will appear on this website shortly, but in the meantime we have another very important…read article

13th March 2014

Sunday 16th March, RDS – Kick off 2pm The History: Clongowes Wood College has met Blackrock College in the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup Final nine times since 1887 (1927, 1928, 1936, 1949, 1953, 1981, 1990, 1995 + 2004) but has always been second best. This year’s team has the potential to make history and become the first ever CWC team to beat Blackrock in…read article

11th March 2014

Surprisingly, before last Sunday’s final it had been 10 years since the fiercest of Senior Cup rivals last met at this stage of the competition. That day a monstrous forward unit and a Luke Fitzgerald inspired backline eventually wore down a feisty Clongowes challenge fronted by Irish internationals Rob Kearney and Fergus McFadden. Many people…read article

10th March 2014

Friday 21st February saw a whole generation of Old Clongownians come together to do their part for the Jack Kavanagh Trust Fund. With ‘Fight For Jack’ having sold out a week previously following a relentless campaign through social media, it lived up to its billing as one of the most hyped charity occasions of the…read article

6th March 2014

Clongowes Wood College 27, St. Andrew’s 12 Last Tuesday one of the most important milestones in the history of Clongowes, the purchase of the school property for £16,000 by Fr. Peter Kenney SJ in 1814, was marked quietly in the school in advance of the year of celebrations, which will commence in May. Not content…read article

4th March 2014

Two hundred years ago today, on 4th March 1814, Fr Peter Kenney, SJ purchased the estate at Castle Browne for £16,000 (approx. €3 million today) with a view to establishing the school we now know as Clongowes Wood College. The monies came from funds, which had been carefully passed from one Irish Jesuit to another,…read article

27th February 2014

Clongowes Wood College 3: Belvedere College 29 As Belvedere pulled away late in the second half to put the final nail in the Clongowes coffin, Sean McCrohan and his side could do little but sigh in exasperation. It really was one of those days. With some shuddering early hits and a massive penalty from out-half…read article