Kids helping kids
22 years of pushing ducks. For over twenty years the Transition Year students in Clongowes Wood College have made raising money to buy a piece of life saving equipment for…
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This year, the Poetry Parent Day will take place on Sunday 11th October 2015 as indicated on the school calendar. We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Patrick Boland,…
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This year, the Rhetoric Parent Day will take place on Sunday 4th October 2015 as indicated on the school calendar. We are very pleased to announce that Fr. Damian Howard SJ…
Read MoreGrammar Retreat
On Friday the 18th of September, accompanied by Mr. Corcoran, Ms. Dolan and Mr. Heslin, we left the school for our Grammar retreat to the Dominican centre in Tallaght. The…
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Refugee Crisis Response
Homily on 24th Sunday (B) – CWC – 12.09.15The Gospel of our Mass for the opening of the academic year just over two weeks ago was Matthew’s account of what…
Read MoreA home from home?
Following on the eloquent statement of our Christian duty in regard to the present refugee crisis in Europe made by Fr Bradley at the School Mass ten days ago, the…
Read More‘Harden not your hearts’
Fr Bruce Bradley SJ celebrated Mass for the whole school this morning (Sunday, 6th September). His homily focused on the tragedy that befell the Kurdi family during the week and his…
Read MoreRoad to Emmaus
The Road to Emmaus via Glendalough William Henry Davies well-remembered poem, written over a hundred years ago, sprang to mind when mulling over our recent parents’ retreat What is this…
Read MoreVisit of Papal Nuncio
On Sunday, 8th February 2015 we were privileged to have the Papal Nuncio, His Excellency The Most Rev Charles John Brown come to visit and celebrate Sunday Eucharist with us,…
Read MoreJohn Paul II Awards
John Paul II Awards Last week, four students from Poetry along with the Rector, Fr. Michael Sheil sj and our Pastoral Coordinator, Ms Anne Marie Dolan travelled to the Seven Oaks’…
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Read MoreBicentenary Mass
Bicentenary Mass Next Sunday, 8th February 2015 we are privileged to have the Papal Nuncio, His Excellency The Most Rev Charles John Brown coming to visit us and celebrate Sunday…
Read MoreAwareness Ribbon Day
Fundraising for Cancer Research Next Thursday, 5th February, in conjunction with The Caroline Foundation we are going to have an AWARENESS RIBBON DAY. The Caroline Foundation (a constituent of Prof. John Crown’s Cancer Clinical Research…
Read MoreAustralian Alumni
Bicentenary Celebration Weekend: Sydney – 29th/30th May
Called to Serve
Called to serve Last Week we celebrated Christian Unity week which is traditionally observed from the 18th to the 25th January – the octave of St. Peter and St. Paul. Clongowes…
Read MoreParent Retreat
Parent Retreat in Glendalough There has been such a positive response to this experience in recent years that this year we are offering two dates: 1. Friday 24th of April…
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Friday January 30th, 2015 at 7.30pm; The Ardilaun Hotel, Galway.
Parent Pilgrimage to Spain
You are invited to take part in the “Footsteps of Ignatius Pilgrimage” which will take place in Spain in May 2015. The trip will begin in Ignatius’ birthplace, Loyola and…
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Kairos Retreat
Kairos literally speaking comes from one of two Greek words for time: ‘Kronos’ and ‘Kairos’. ‘Kronos’ referring to chronological/ sequential time, whereas ‘Kairos’ by its very definition signifies a moment…
Read MoreKnock Youth Gathering 2014
On Tuesday 7th of October all Syntax students departed CWC for Knock Co. Mayo at the early hour of 7:30 am along with Mr. Paul Mc Cormack, Mr. Tom Carroll…
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