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College and Career Exhibition

27th October 2017

Last week (Thursday, 19th October) Clongowes held a College and Career Exhibition in the sports hall. While many are familiar with the Irish Times Higher Options Exhibition, held in the RDS annually, this year we decided to organise our own ‘mini’ Higher Options Exhibition for the Higher Line students and their parents, with a ‘mini’…read article

OC and Young Musician

21st October 2017

Winner of the Irish Freemasons’ Young Musician of the Year 2017 On Saturday, 14th October, Richard Thomas (OC’13) was awarded 1st place in the Irish Freemasons’ Young Musician of the Year. The semi-finals took place on Thursday October 12th where he was shortlisted to the final four. The final round took place on Saturday 14th…read article

Inter-House Book Quiz

19th October 2017

Sixty students, from across all the year groups, gathered for the Inter-House Book Quiz on Wednesday night (18th October), where the prize – a silver cup – graced the team table of Sullivan, the 2016 winners… Using a table quiz format each House submitted a team (one representative from each year group) to compete over…read article

Between Jigs and Reels

17th October 2017

Trad for Trócaire On Tuesday 17th of October the Trad group returned to Connolly’s of Ballagh for our annual ‘Trad for Trócaire’ Session. Thankfully Hurricane Ophelia did not inflict any damage on Connolly’s but the trad group certainly raised the roof with a great set of tunes. We were delighted to be able to bring…read article

The Groves of Academe

15th October 2017

THE ACADEMY Amid the groves and fountains of an Athenian garden over 300 years before the birth of Christ, the great philosopher, Plato, gathered his disciples in the first meeting of The Academy. It had a long and famed existence for nearly 800 years. When at last the philosophers and scientists met there no more,…read article

Directors of Sport and Rugby

11th October 2017

Director of Sport and Director of Rugby As games in general and rugby in particular continue to grow and develop in Clongowes, the Headmaster has created the new positions of Director of Sport and Director of Rugby, which have been filled by John O’Donoghue and Daryl Maxwell respectively (pictured above with the Headmaster, Chris Lumb…read article

From a Land Down Under

9th October 2017

This year’s Transition Year Clongowes / Riverview Exchange is under way and we have settled in very well and are enjoying finding out about life in Ireland. The exchange involves six students from each College exchanging life in the opposite hemisphere and experiencing literally how the other half live… While outdoor temperatures rocket in Sydney we…read article

Live Life to the Fullest

6th October 2017

POETRY PARENT DAY Poetry Parent Day will take place on Sunday 15th October 2017. The day will begin at 09.15 with refreshments in the concourse. Our speakers will be in room 3 at 09.50am; we will finish with Eucharist in the Sports Hall at 11.30, followed by an option to stay for lunch. Our main speaker for…read article

Cross Country Success

4th October 2017

Bouyed and enthused by the success of the Sports Day a few weeks ago, the gentlemen of the Cross Country Team betook themselves to Carlow last week for the first leg of the Three Counties Cross Country on 26th September under the tutelage of their coach, Mr Shane Heslin… An encouraging number of boys had…read article

Changes in the Foundation

2nd October 2017

New Chair of Fundraising in the Clongowes Foundation After forty-two years of service to Clongowes, the last four of which were as Chair of Fundraising in the Clongowes Foundation, Martin Nugent has announced his retirement and has been replaced in this role by Joseph Rooney (OC’79). Joe (pictured above being congratulated by the Headmaster, Mr…read article

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