Clongowes Stories

16th May 2016

On Wednesday, 13th of April, James Gleeson, Professor of Industrial and Applied Mathematics at UL and Co-Director of the MACSI Consortium, returned to Clongowes for his last visit, having come twice previously in the year to help us with our mathematical models, which we had developed bit by bit throughout the year as we met…read article

16th May 2016

All over the country today, in over 90 locations, people were getting up at ungodly hours to support Pieta House.  At Naas Racecourse 70 students along with Mr. Maloney, Mr. Corcoran, Mr. Carroll, Mr. O’Domhnaill, Ms. O’Loughlin and Mr Leahy SJ walked or ran 5 kilometres in the annual ‘Darkness into Light’. Darkness into Light…read article

6th May 2016

This year group of Syntax students have come together and decided to raise money for the Duck Push Fund by producing some very nice Clongowes labelled wine… For more than twenty two years the Transition Year students in Clongowes Wood College have made raising money to buy a piece of life saving equipment for Crumlin…read article

4th May 2016

Connor Mulholland (Poetry) recently spent two weeks at the American Golf Academy of Biarritz under the instruction of Michael Magher, a former PGA tour player, who advanced into the top 100 golfers in the world at the peak of his career. Michael’s philosophy of the golf swing came directly from Ben Hogan’s five fundamentals of…read article

29th April 2016

It is said that ‘music is the great uniter – an incredible force’ and that was well demonstrated when 73 members of the Clongowes orchestra and 80 members of the Holy Family, Newbridge choir, as well as their newly formed orchestra, came together in performance on Tuesday afternoon last, 26th May. Dan Lumb (Poetry) takes…read article

29th April 2016

This year as part of their fundraising efforts for Duck Push 2016 a group of boys in Transition Year applied to take responsibility for running the Duck Push classic golf competition in the K Club. James Lambe and Rory McMahon were there… Paddy Culhane, David Hanly, James and Niall McCormick and Darragh Slattery put a…read article

26th April 2016

The Clongowes Foundation welcomed over sixty OC’s with their guests to Hallam Conference Centre on April 7th last. Nick Hewer OC’62, famous for his role on the BBC’s programme The Apprentice, interviewed William Sargent OC’73 – a man typically not interested in accolades or even attention. William arrived to Clongowes at age of tender age of 11,…read article

21st April 2016

Before lunch on Wednesday (April 20th) the Boys’ Chapel was packed for the third Headmaster’s Assembly of the year. After the opening prayer by the Rector, Fr Michael Sheil, the Headmaster, Mr Chris Lumb took to the podium to recognise some of the achievements of our students in recent weeks. His first task was to…read article

20th April 2016

The origins of racing ‘The Triangle’ in Clongowes, while hardly lost in the mists of time, are certainly unclear. It is such an obvious course that it is likely that boys ran and raced it as long as boys have run and raced in Clongowes. As regards the modern event, Fr Bruce Bradley, in The…read article

18th April 2016

On Saturday April 9th a crowd of some 250 gathered in the Marker Hotel in Dublin for an event organised by the Clongowes Foundation to pay tribute to Old Clongownian Gordon D’Arcy (OC’98) and raise some money for the Alberto Hurtado Bursary Fund… When the hard-pressed MC, Ambrose O’Sullivan (OC’78) eventually managed to get the…read article