Weekly Featured O.C.- Rob Kearney
Rob Kearney (OC’04) Last month the Clongowes community was delighted to hear that Rob Kearney had been selected to travel on his second British & Irish Lions tour. Rob announced…
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Rob Kearney (OC’04) Last month the Clongowes community was delighted to hear that Rob Kearney had been selected to travel on his second British & Irish Lions tour. Rob announced…
Read MoreMay Day, Wednesday 1st saw we hope the start of a new annual event for the college – The CWC Table Quiz run by The Ladies Association. The evening was…
Read MoreNiamh de Burca of Gael Linn visited the school on Tuesday to present Gavin Moore and George O’Brien Kelly of Transition Year with their award as third place prizewinners in…
Read MoreOn the 19th April, I was privileged to take a group of CWC parents on a day retreat to Glendalough. I composed the retreat around the theme of the Road to…
Read MoreLast Friday evening (26th April), in the Jesuit Community Library, members of the Clongowes and Portora Unions, members of staff and, most especially, this year’s entrants for the Beckett-Joyce Award…
Read MoreOn the 6th of April 2013 eight lads from Transition Year set out to climb Croagh Patrick barefooted in aid of the Duck Push. We were inspired by my uncle…
Read MoreAt a Board of Management meeting held last Friday, April 19th Mr Martin Nugent announced that he will be retiring as Assistant Headmaster of Clongowes this summer. On Monday morning,…
Read MoreAs the warm April sunshine filtered through the stained glass windows of the Boys’ Chapel, the RTE Vanbrugh String Quartet delighted an audience of approximately one hundred music students from…
Read MoreOn the 31st of March a group from Clongowes began the school’s sixth Immersion trip to Malealea, Lesotho. Before the flight had even taken off we experienced our first mishap…
Read MoreOn Wednesday 17th April, the Annual Parents’ Association ‘Question & Answers’ evening took place in the school. This year’s theme was ‘The Rollercoaster Ride of the Teenage Years’ and we…
Read MoreDuring the academic year 2011/12 the College commissioned a survey on attitudes towards mass from the boys. This was as a result of a perceived negativity around the Sunday mass…
Read MoreOn Wed April 10th storyteller Niall de Burca returned to the school to entertain the Third Line. The event took place in the Higher Line Rec Room where we drew…
Read MoreEstablished in the early 11th century, the University of Oxford was the first university of the English speaking world and has remained at the forefront of centres of learning, teaching…
Read MoreOn Thursday, 35 boys from Elements took leave from class to partake in the Kildare section of the Leinster First Year GAA blitz. Held at the St. Mary’s club in…
Read MorePoetry Pilgrimage to Taizé The annual Clongowes Pilgrimage to the ecumenical retreat centre at Taizé took place again at Easter when ten Poetry students, accompanied by their prefect Mr. Tom…
Read MoreThere are many who have taken the road less travelled upon leaving Clongowes, but perhaps none moreso than Ruairi Lynch (OC’06) In 2007, Ruairi earned a place at Oxford Brookes…
Read MoreAdrian Gahan (OC’97) A former secretary of the school Adrian Gahan was awarded a first class degree in History and Politics from UCD. At the invitation of a fellow Irishman,…
Read MoreAt a Board of Management meeting held last Friday, April 19th Mr Martin Nugent announced that he will be retiring as Assistant Headmaster of Clongowes this summer. On Monday morning,…
Read MoreOn Tuesday March 26th Midnight Events and the Village of Wexford St. will play host to “JACKED” , a charity event in aid of Jack Kavanagh OC 2011. This isn’t your…
Read MorePatrick Mullins (OC’08) Patrick (Paddy) Mullins has had huge success as an amateur jockey and hit the racing headlines once again on 29th December 2012, when he broke the 97-year-old…
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