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Crescent en el Camino
May 24, 2011
Twelve Leaving Certificate students in Crescent College are gearing themselves for a further challenge when the exams are over: they will walk the pilgrim path to Compostella, some starting 800...
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A happy Saturday
May 24, 2011
On 21 May the Saturday papers made you feel good for once, looking back on the happy visit of Queen Elizabeth – who shook hands with one Jesuit, Peter Sexton, senior...
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Belvedere in song
April 19, 2011
There are two school successes to report this week. The Colaiste Iognaid basketball team, coached by Adrian O’Neill, and captained by Sophie Coll, won the West Region First Year Girls...
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Colwell challenges Galway
April 5, 2011
Mary Colwell, a Bristol-born producer of TV shows, spent a day in Galway last month talking to students and staff of Coláiste Iognáid and the general public on an ecological...
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Plato in Ballymun
April 5, 2011
J.U.S.T., the Jesuit University Support and Training Project in Ballymun, run cultural programmes in addition to their work with undergraduates. Director Kevin O’Higgins SJ launched a course of Philosophy for Beginners, hoping that...
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What makes a school Jesuit?
April 5, 2011
Australian Jesuit Richard Leonard was back in Ireland in late March to give three workshops. On Friday 25 March, he led teachers from the Jesuit colleges in exploring what it...
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Pseudo-ranking schools
March 22, 2011
The Sunday Times of 13 March ranked 400 Irish second-level schools on the proportion of their pupils who went on to university. Of course that is a poor measure of...
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Trophies galore
March 22, 2011
For the first time ever, the Clongowes SCT won the Leinster Schools cup twice in a row, and did so with the second highest score ever recorded in a final (46-15 against Roscrea)....
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Belvedere’s great loss
March 22, 2011
Belvedere’s Gerry Haugh, an extraordinary educator, died unexpectedly on 19 March. Headmaster Gerard Foley said his sudden death “shocked and saddened literally thousands who were inspired by his care and...
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Good buzz in Loyola
March 8, 2011
In mid-February, the Jesuit European Committee for Secondary Education (JECSE) held a conference in Loyola, Spain, for some 112 schoolmen from all over Europe (eleven of them from Ireland), specifically...
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