Visit to Portora
On Wednesday of last week, November 11th a group of eleven students from Syntax and Poetry, Dan Reilly, David Morrin, Luke MacQuillan, Jonathan Farrington, Jason Smith, Dan Gannon, Ross O’Doherty,…
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Kieran’s Kildare Leg
Sligo man Kieran Quinn (OC ’98) is a very able and talented musician who has a large following due to his versatile piano playing and his ability to connect to…
Read MoreSenior Choir in Sligo
The Senior Choir struck the right note at the International Choral Festival held in Sligo this weekend. Performing in front of an audience of some eight hundred people, the students scored an…
Read MoreQuizmasters
A total of five teams and fourteen students from Grammar and Rhetoric represented Clongowes in Science and Business last week with varying degrees of success… The tradition of science and mathematics is…
Read MoreMass for Deceased OCs
Mass for the Deceased Members of the Clongowes Union The autumn season is always rich in colour – but as November moves towards its end – the very richness of…
Read MoreRemembrance Tree
Our annual November Remembrance Tree has made an appearance back in the concourse. It will stand in front of the chaplaincy board where students, staff and parents can take the…
Read MoreGame of Thrones
Chess Challenge While Woody Allen may have quipped that he failed to make the chess team because of his height, the same may not be said of the intellectual giants…
Read MoreHats on to Hugo!
We have to take our hats off (or should that be on?!) to the staff and student body who carried out a simple act of solidarity with one of our…
Read MoreFictional Clongowes
A joint literacy and ‘Men for Others’ initiative saw the staff and students of Clongowes raise in excess of €450 for Barretstown and the Jesuit Refugee Services on Book Character Dress-up Day…
Read MoreLeadership Background
Ensuring that our Clongowes profile has a strong presence with alumni, current parents and the wider community is important for our future development goals. We develop relationships with many of our…
Read MorePast v Present: Round 2
On a lovely sunny October day (Wednesday 7th) Portmarnock Golf Club had put on its best bib-‘n-tucker to welcome OC Members and their Guests for the return-leg of the annual…
Read MoreRudiments Parent Day
This year, the Rudiments Parent Day will take place on Sunday, 8th November 2015 as indicated on the school calendar. Our guest speaker will be Ms Marguerite Kiely, Clinical Director…
Read MoreCounty Champions
The Cross Country teams have been training hard since September in order to regain any speed and stamina lost over a decadent summer and – if recent results are anything…
Read MoreChina In Their Hands
Here in Clongowes a small group of us study Chinese as an extra subject in the evening time with Mr. Lichao Li of the Confucius Institute. It is very enjoyable…
Read MoreSound of Music in CWC
The walls of our appropriately named Green Room were alive with the sound of music last week (Thursday 15th), as it played host to our recent celebration of that very…
Read MoreClongowes vs Argentina
As Ireland’s odyssey in the Rugby World Cup continues and the team attempts to go where no other Ireland team has done, both Rob Kearney (OC’04) and his brother and Dave…
Read MorePeter Gray
Peter Gray was appointed to the role of chairman of the board in March 2015. Peter is a former pupil and school captain (OC’73), and was President of the Clongowes Union…
Read MoreReading Path to Empathy
A small selection of our collection that will help to develop empathy. ‘The Guardian’ recently published Lost for words? How reading can teach children empathy an article by Miranda McKearney and…
Read MoreSyntax Parent Day
This year, the Syntax Parent Day will take place on Sunday 18th October 2015 as indicated on the school calendar. We are very pleased to announce that Fr Peter McVerry…
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