Foundations of Hope
Hope Foundation – Kolkata: ‘City Of Joy’ Just before Easter six Transition Year students along with Mr Noel Murray and Old Clongownian, Pyers O’Connor Nash (OC’69) set off for Kolkata,…
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Make a Joyful Sound
On Wednesday 30th May 2018 Declan O’Keeffe taught his last class in Clongowes Wood College having taught his first in September 1981. The previous week Declan led Morning Prayer in…
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Union Day 2018
Union Day is one of the great traditions that have helped to make Clongowes what it is and has been gracing the grounds of the old Castle Browne for well…
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Duck Push Raffle
Union Day Duck Push Raffle Congratulations to the winners of the Union Day Raffle: Featherblade Restaurant Voucher for two courtesy Mr. Paul McVeigh won by Ms Grainne Kennan Union Day…
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Duck Push Shop
As Union Day 2018 approaches students in Syntax / Transition Year are getting their Duck Push Shop ready. It will be located in the marquee in front of the 1929…
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Golf Classic
Duck Push Golf Classic The planning for the 2018 Duck Push Golf Classic started in early January. Transition Year is a very busy year for exchanges and work experience so…
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The Beautiful Game
Staff v Students Soccer Last week saw 67 Rhetoric students take a break from their books to venture against a very prominent Magistri side in this years annual Staff v Students…
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Sky is the Limit for Paddy
Inaugural AERPRIZE finals On Friday 16thMarch Rhetoric student Paddy White, in the company of his sponsor, science teacher Ms Yvonne Nolan, took his place at the inaugural AERPRIZE finals at…
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Shooting Hoops
Past v Present Basketball The evening of the Thursday 24thof April saw several OCs arrive confidently back to the sports hall to take on our current Senior basketball team, in…
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Strength in Faith
Confirmation Ceremony Most Reverend Denis Nulty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin visited Clongowes yesterday (May 15th) to confirm 18 of our pupils and support them in their adult faith journey.…
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Real World Problems
Maths Modelling Back in October, any 5th and 4th years who wanted to take part in maths modelling gathered in Mr. O’Hara’s classroom where Professor James Gleeson presented them with three problems…
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Higher Line Medal Debate
Higher Line Gold Medal Debate It has been almost one hundred and eighty one years since Daniel O’Connell established the Clongowes Debating Society, which has grown to become an integral…
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Following the Way
Two weeks ago forty two pilgrims from Clongowes made their ways to the Basque Country in Northern Spain, there to embark on a pilgrimage that would lead them from the…
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The Auld Triangle
2018 TRIANGLE RACE 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…
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Fearless Like A Child
In 2012, just over a year after leaving Clongowes, Jack Kavanagh (OC’11) sustained a spinal cord injury following a simple windsurfing accident only weeks before entering his second year of…
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African Immersion Experience
Just before Easter 23 young pilgrims from Poetry aided and abetted by their chaperones Ms Alexis Fox and Mr Liam McGovern, Spiritual Advisor Fr. Michael Sheil SJ, group leader Mr…
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Return of the MACSI
On Wednesday 18th April Professor James Gleeson returned for his final visit to the Clongowes physics and applied maths students, who are involved in research projects with the Mathematics Applications Consortium…
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Headmaster’s Assembly
The Headmaster’s Assembly took place on 18th April to welcome the boys back after the Easter break and to recognise their achievements and participation in the life of the school.…
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Trad Group in Manresa
Last Thursday saw the Clongowes Trad group travel to the Jesuit Centre of Spirituality in the lovely surroundings of Manresa House overlooking Dublin Bay. The group was invited by the Rector,…
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