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Bully4You

15th April 2016

Last Wednesday, 13th April, the Parents’ Association arranged a talk for parents by a company called Bully4You represented on the night by Kevin Deering and Jim Harding. Bully4You is a not-for-profit organisation helping schools, parents and teenagers to understand the deep effects of bullying and cyber bullying in particular. With the advent of modern communications…read article

Grammar v Mount Sackville

12th April 2016

On Wednesday last, April 6th, an excited Grammar group hosted fellow third year students from Mount Sackville Secondary School in an annual social held in aid of Clongowes’ in house charity, the Duck Push… As 7pm approached the excitement was palpable in the dormitories; shoes were being hectically shone, ties squared perfectly over closed top…read article

Trad Group Session

7th April 2016

The Clongowes Trad group will be playing in Connolly’s of Ballagh on Tuesday April 12th from 7.30-9.30PM. This promises to be a great night of music and song and provides an opportunity to say thank you and farewell to our two sixth year students who have given such great service over the years. Directions to…read article

Golf Classic in K Club

7th April 2016

As part of their fund raising campaign for the Clongowes Duck Push the gentlemen of Syntax are organising the Duck Push Golf Classic at the K-Club in Straffan Co. Kildare on Monday, April 25th. The timesheet is almost full but there are a number of places still available and these will be filled on a…read article

Elements of Dublinia

6th April 2016

Last Monday (4th April) the boys of Elements together with our history teachers Mr Garry Corcoran and Mr Colm Maloney and Mrs Eileen Lumb visited ‘Dublinia’, a history exhibition on Viking and Medieval Dublin… First we went into the area that focused specifically on Viking Dublin, where we saw a viking grave, a house and…read article

Cup Teams Depart

23rd March 2016

Following two distinguished campaigns with many a tense moment and much exciting rugby, both our Senior and Junior Teams were obliged to depart the cup competitions at the semi final stages in matches that were each decided by a single score… Roscrea 24 Clongowes 18 The Seniors were first to depart following a narrow defeat…read article

From the Headmaster

22nd March 2016

In a letter to Clongowes’ Parents and Guardians last month the Headmaster, Mr Chris Lumb was pleased to report that his introduction to Clongowes life has continued at a pace during the past term…. “My first experience of the ‘cup season’ has been a most positive one. Our SCT and JCT gallantly bowed out of…read article

Proclamation Day

17th March 2016

Tuesday March 15th was declared Proclamation Day as part of the national commemoration of the 1916 Rising and we in Clongowes took special pride in the commemorations given our special link with the national flag, courtesy of Old Clongownian, Thomas Francis Meagher… The event was co-ordinated by Clongowes Archivist, Ms Margaret Doyle and took place…read article

Swimming with the Tide

17th March 2016

Work on new swimming pool commences. In 1886 Clongowes Wood College amalgamated with its sister Jesuit boarding school in Tullabeg, almost doubling the school population at a stroke and signalling the beginning of an ambitious building programme that would sustain the college for more than a century. Three iconic buildings in the school were constructed,…read article

Choral Success

14th March 2016

After months of hard work and preparation with Mr David Scott, Ms Anne Conaghan and Ms Catherine Heslin, singers from Clongowes Wood College competed at the Interschool’s Music Festival at Wesley College last week. This is the leading music festival for primary and secondary schools in Leinster. The weekend began in dramatic fashion however, as…read article

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