Transition Year

1st March 2018

Later this month (on Thursday 15th March) seven Transition Year students along with Mr Noel Murray and Old Clongownian, Pyers O’Connor Nash (OC’69) will set off for Kolkata ‘The City of Joy’ as part of the HOPE Foundation trip. The purpose of this trip is to visit and engage with students who are in HOPE centres…read article

25th February 2018

As part of our fund raising campaign for the Clongowes Duck Push the students of Syntax are organising the Duck Push Golf Classic at the K-Club in Straffan Co. Kildare on Wednesday 16th May. There are places for up to 25 teams, each consisting of 4 golfers, to take part in this special annual event…read article

23rd February 2018

No need to panic or run for cover, this is not an early stage of the anticipated ‘Beast from the East’ (Storm Emma), expected next week – it’s just the return of our old friends from the Cork based Cyclone Repertory company who have returned to Clongowes to entertain the Transition Year boys while also educating…read article

12th January 2018

Ruairi O’Regan, Finn Adams and Pat Taaffe  of Transition Year have just returned to Clongowes following a sojourn in our fellow Jesuit school, St. Marie La Grand’Grange in Saint Chamond (near St. Etienne). While there the boys were interviewed for a local newspaper on what it’s like living the French way… ‘We’re living like the…read article

16th December 2017

Transition Year Riverview Exchange Back in October six Transition Year students embarked for the Antipodes on a four week exchange with our sister college, St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, which was founded in 1880 by Old Clongownian, Fr Joseph Dalton. Embedded correspondent, Mikey Mina Ronayne sent us this despatch from behind the lines… “We arrived at…read article

30th November 2017

In recent weeks Jack Hilliard has been one of 40 boys, who are taking Lifesaving lessons in our new swimming pool as part of the Transition Year programme of activities. The lads are training for a Pool Life Guard Course over the year, which will allow them to be Life Savers. Mr. Philip Keleghan from Irish…read article

16th November 2017

We are pleased to let you know that the Duck Push Wine Company has a limited amount of stock ready for sale ahead of the Christmas season. You will remember that this wine was introduced in May of last year and was very popular, making an excellent gift for family and friends. Each bottle is…read article

14th November 2017

‘Tis the Season… Fabulous Christmas Cards will be available for sale from Saturday 18th November. Cards are sold in aid of the Duck Push, which purchases medical equipment to help treat sick children. The high quality Christmas cards feature art by Jacinta Crowley-Long (www.crowley-long.com) that depict winter scenes of the Castle and College at Clongowes….read article

6th November 2017

On the 30th October Karl Hayes (Syntax) flew from Katmandu to Lukla, a small airstrip 2,900m high in the Himalayas. There he joined a group of climbers making their way to the glacier base camp of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world at 8,848metres high… It is easy to forget that the first…read article

9th October 2017

This year’s Transition Year Clongowes / Riverview Exchange is under way and we have settled in very well and are enjoying finding out about life in Ireland. The exchange involves six students from each College exchanging life in the opposite hemisphere and experiencing literally how the other half live… While outdoor temperatures rocket in Sydney we…read article