22 March 2024
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Clongowes Wood College v Georgetown Prep, Maryland On a chilly Monday afternoon Clongowes hosted fellow Jesuit College, Georgetown Preparatory School from Maryland USA. With the rugby season drawing to a close it was a great opportunity for our boys to have one last game before focussing on our summer term programme. With the short St…read article
Dr Elizabeth Walsh (Clinical Psychiatrist, UCHG), mother of Donnchadh (OC’16) and Richard (Rhetoric) visited Clongowes recently (Thursday, March 9th) to give a talk to Rhetoric entitled ‘Mental Illness and Minding Your Brain’. Dr Walsh touched on the areas of stress and how to manage it as we head towards the Leaving Cert. In a lively discussion…read article
Last week (Friday 10th March) Clongowes held set of vocal master classes given by renowned Irish Tenor Emmanuel Lawler, who is also a lecturer in the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and the Chairman of Feis Ceoil. Members of the Senior Choir, Schola and members of staff sat in at various times and observed Mr…read article
Rugby Spirit Gerard Siggins series of books, Rugby Spirit, are proving very popular with students in Elements and Rudiments for a number of reasons: rugby, boarding school, historical figures and the supernatural. The language is accessible and they are relatively short and so particularly appealing for the more reluctant readers. Yesterday (Tuesday 14th March), the…read article
Fr. John Sullivan SJ U14 Tournament On Saturday 11th March 2017, 11 teams from all over the country travelled to Clongowes for the first annual Fr John Sullivan SJ tournament. Thankfully, the weather was kind to us and the rain managed to stay off for the full day. The teams competed in groups of three…read article
On Thursday March 2nd, eleven students from Poetry and Rhetoric along with Mr Stephen O’Hara took part in the East Midlands regional competition of the Irish Applied Maths Teachers Association Senior Applied Mathematics quiz. Marc Bollee, Cormac Watson and Conor Galvin finished in first place while Billy Minch, Connell Kennelly and Michael Colivet came in…read article
Clongowes 1 – Belvedere 3 (after extra time) For the third time in a fortnight Belvedere proved to be the better team in the contest between the confraternal sister colleges. In the inaugural Leinster Schools Shield Tournament they edged Clongowes out of the competition in extra time after a 1-1 final score, but it might…read article
Last night (Wednesday, 8th March) we held our annual Lenten Reconciliation Service in Clongowes. Led by the Rector, Fr Michael Sheil SJ the whole school came together in the Sports Hall at 9.15pm for a 40-minute liturgy exploring the nature of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and the need for forgiveness in our lives. Using our newly…read article
Singing Success for Clongowes If you have any contact with Sean Lannen (Elements – pictured above) over the next few days, please take the time to congratulate him on being awarded first place in the Wesley College Interschool’s Music Festival, in the U14 Solo Singing competition. You might also spare a word for David Scott,…read article
Clongowes Wood College 12 Belvedere College 17 In the end the gap of five points between the teams that had pertained for much of the game proved a bridge too far and the Clongowes senior team was obliged to give best to their confreres from Belvedere College at Donnybrook in the Leinster Schools’ Cup semi…read article