Sports

20th October 2016

In 1978, to mark our success in the Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup, J. Brendan Prendiville (OC’40) presented the Prendiville Plate for annual competition between the Past and the Present. All of these matches have, to date, been played at Portmarnock Golf Club with the addition of a return fixture in Clongowes. This year the Portmarnock…read article

4th October 2016

The sterling efforts of Mikey Mina Ronayne (see below) in the recent Leinster Under 15 matchplay final and the imminent Past v Present Golf Match in this – the 50th anniversary of the opening of the current Clongowes Golf Course – set us reminiscing about the history of the game in Clongowes and also what…read article

22nd September 2016

Well done to Luke Johnston (Rudiments) and Harry Browne (Elements) who represented Clongowes at the 41st All Ireland Inter Schools Sailing Regatta at Sutton Dinghy Club last Saturday and Sunday (17th and 18th September). There were over 100 boats on the start line so the competition for space was tough. Luke (on the right above)…read article

12th September 2016

Conrad Daly, Cathal Duff, Dan Sheehan, Ronan Hannon, Liam El Sibai and Joe Murphy, who have received representative honours in rugby. Congratulations to the following boys on their selection for Provincial and International age grade representative sides Conrad Daly (Leinster Schools) Ronan Hannon (Leinster Schools)   Cathal Duff (Leinster u19) Dan Sheehan (Leinster u19)  …read article

20th June 2016

Unprecedented. Impossible. Preposterous. Unthinkable. Unobtainable. Yet, by the end of sixty gruelling minutes in this years Staff. vs. Students soccer match, played in honour of former teacher and soccer enthusiast Mr. Brendan Cullen, the magistri of Clongowes Wood College had bravely gone to the brink and succeeded where no football team in the history of…read article

20th May 2016

Transition Year student, Sean Monaghan was a member of The Irish Under 16 Pony Show Jumping Team that won the Nations Cup in Odense, Denmark on Saturday, May 21st. Each member of the winning team, including Sean on Orchids Vienna, jumped a clear round to give the Irish team victory on an incredible zero penalty…read article

16th May 2016

Congratulations to Jack O’Leary (above, centre), who capped off a great week for Clongowes athletics as he captured the Senior 5000m Leinster schools’ title in Santry last Saturday afternoon (May 14th). This gives Jack the impressive double of Leinster Cross Country and Leinster track titles. This was a fine addition to the medals won last Wednesday…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

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

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