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St. Colman's Annual Awards 2008 - 2009

Pic: St. Colman's students entertain the audience during the College Awards Night 2008 - 2009. Over 60 awards were presented to students past and present as well as other special presentations.

 

Pic: St. Colman's student Eamonn Mulholland (left) pictured during his visit to The United Space School in Houston, Texas. Eamonn's account of his Space Programme experience is detailed inside.

 

  

St. Colman's 150th anniversary news & events here

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Pic: St. Colman's students pose for posterity to mark the close of the 150th Anniversary Celebration Year. Photo was taken on the last week of the 2008 / 2009 school year and was featured on the cover of the school magazine 'Inkwell'.

 

 

 

 

St. Colman's Allstars v Cork Exhibition Match

At the launch of the St. Colman's 150th Anniversary Exhibition match between St. Colman's All-stars & Cork, school principal Dermot Coakley acknowl­edged the role of hurling in the college history and in particular the success the college has enjoyed in the Harty Cup (Munster Senior College Hurling). While plans are also in place to cel­ebrate the 150th Anniversary through Music, Poetry & academic success, this occasion saw the launch of the exhi­bition hurling match which will take place at Pairc Mhic Ghearailt, Fermoy on Sunday 23rd November at 2.30pm.

 The St. Colman's College All-star team will include amongst their 30 man panel Mark Landers (Killeagh) captain of the 1999 All-Ireland winning Cork team, as well as Cork Inter-County Stars Fer­gal McCormack (Mallow) Timmy Mc­Carthy (Castlelyons) Neil Ronan (Bally­hea) Brian Murphy (Bride Rovers); From Waterford Eoin Murphy (Shamrocks) & James Murray (Tallow) & From Limerick Andrew O'Shaughnessy (Kilmallock) & Maurice O'Brien (Garryspillane) as well as a host of other former students who have distinguished themselves at club, college and intercounty level.

 St. Colman's have a proud history in the Harty Cup winning it on 9 occasions in 1948, 1949, 1977, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002 & 2003. The Croke Cup for All-Ireland College has being won 4 times in 1977, 1997, 2001 & 2002.

 On the day of the match St. Colman's will wear a special commemora­tive green & white hoop jersey, this was the style of the old jersey before changing to all green in the 1960's.

 Past St. Colman's greats include Colman O'Donovan (Midleton), Billy Abernethy (Castlemartyr), Bertie & Dick Troy (New­townshandrum), Willie Moore (Ball­incurrig), Con Murphy (Bride Rovers), Denis Murphy (Grenagh & St.Finbarrs), Seanie O'Leary (Dungourney & Youghal),  CathaI Casey (St.Catherines), Pat Hartnett (Midleton) as well as many others who have worn the red of Cork.

 At Coaching & Administration level St. Colmans are proud of the contribu­tions of former students such as former County Board Chairman Denis Conroy (Carrigtwohill), Fr.Bertie Troy (New­townshandrum) who was involved in 11 All-Ireland winning Cork teams, Bob Honohan (Donoughmore) Fr.Denis Kelleher (Midleton), Sean O'Brien (Mi­dleton), Fr. Donal Coakley (Glanworth), Eugene Carey (Mallow), Fr. Liam Kelle­her (Dooughmore) and many others.

On the day of the match a collection will be held in aid of the Stuart Mangan Trust. Stuart is a past pupil of St. Colman's College and we hope you can make a contribution to his care and well-being.

 

P.J. Cleans Up at SciFest 2008. . .

Our heartiest congratulations to P.J O' Donoghue (2nd Year) on his recent triumph at SciFest 2008.  The exhibition was held in the Tipperary Institute earlier this month. P.J's project, entitled "Is Bounty Really Bountiful?" was a comprehensive study on the effectiveness of kitchen paper. The project  impressed the judges so much that it was awarded Best Overall Project (sponsored by Intel). To top it off, P.J. also won the Junior Individual Physical Sciences and the Overall Physical Sciences category (sponsored by Dell).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transition Year Students take 2nd Place in National Final

 On May 1st, Croke Park hosted the "AIB Build a Bank" Challenge National Final . The competition began last September and was open to all second-level schools; 176 took part and 20 won a place in the final.

 

Second place overall in the Challenge was awarded to the St Colman's College entry with each team member picking up a Nintendo DS Lite along with a glass trophy for the school. All participants in the final received an AIB 'Build a Bank Challenge' certificate of participation.


The Bank members are John O' Flynn, Jared Auty, Raymond O' Brien, Mark Flynn, Fergus Collins and Conor Healy. Well done to all.

 

Teacher of Physics Award for St. Colman's Teacher.

The recipient of the 2007 Institute of Physics Teachers of Physics Award was David Rea of St. Colman's College. The Institute of Physics is the body representing physics professionally in Ireland and the UK, and makes this award annually.

 

The award ceremony took place at the Savoy Hotel, The Strand, London on Thursday January 18th and the event was hosted by the President and Council of the IOP.

 

St. Colman's staff and pupils extend their sincere congratulations to David on this magnificent achievement and there is consensus that he is most deserving and worthy of this accolade. Well done David!

 

Young Scientists Exhibition 

Well done to "Experimental" St. Colman's entrants in the BT Young Scientists Exhibition 2007

St. Colman's College Transition Year students Ronan Clancy and Shane Walshe participated in the 2007 competition and came away with "Highly Commended" award for their efforts. 

The two students submitted an entry called "ExperiMENTAL", an introduction to Chemistry for primary school children. Their project was a booklet of 21 chemistry experiments that would be fun and enjoyable for 5th & 6th class pupils.

Members of the public found the booklet very interesting and when judging took place on the Wednesday and Thursday, the judges were also very keen on the idea.

The students enjoyed the experience of the week very much and all the more so when they were highly commended. They would like to extend their thanks to their teacher Ms. O'Connor for all her hard work in preparing the entry and also to their school principal for all his support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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