Month: November 2014

10th November 2014

Clongowes Foundation is delighted to host The Leadership Series with Guest Speaker Patrick Joy OC’69 ‘How leading with customer focus and product innovation fuels global market penetration and business success’ On: Wednesday 5th Nov at 6.00 pm In: The Clyde Court Hotel, Dublin 4 All Welcome RSVP: Aine Burns Tel.  045 902334 Email: administrator@clongowes.net Previous…read article

10th November 2014

Clongowes Foundation Leadership Series The Clongowes Foundation Leadership Series re-emerged following a hiatus since 2012 with an inspiring and humble delivery by Patrick Joy (OC ‘69). EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2013, Patrick is founder of Suretank Ltd, the world’s largest manufacturer of offshore transport tanks for the oil exploration industry. A globally recognised leader…read article

7th November 2014

Book Character Dress-up Day A joint literacy and ‘Men for Others’ initiative saw the staff and students of Clongowes raise in excess of €650 for the Irish Red Cross Ebola Appeal on Book Character Dress-up Day last Wednesday (5th, November). The day was the brain child of College Librarian, Ms Jane O’Loughlin (a.k.a. The Snow…read article

5th November 2014

Outstanding Musicians Congratulations to orchestral musicians Jack Savage (viola) in Poetry and Colin Bourke (trumpet) in Syntax. Both received High Achiever Awards from the Royal Irish Academy of Music because of their outstanding results in their grade exams last May. Congratulations also to David Dudeney (percussion) in Rhetoric, who successfully auditioned for the Dublin Symphony…read article

3rd November 2014

Transitioning through James Joyce’s Dublin As part of Mr Tom Carroll’s English class, Transition Year students are studying James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, so where better to start than with a day out in Joyce’s Dublin? ‘City of paralysis’ it is not as the budding Joyceans discovered…read article