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Jes goes to the dogs to raise €2,000,000
March 8, 2011
Coláiste Iognáid’s new building is well underway, and will provide much needed educational, administrative and sporting facilities for the 650 students. To raise the €2,000,000 still needeed, the college is...
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Jesuit = Value Added
February 8, 2011
President McAleese honoured the 60th birthday of Gonzaga College by a formal visit on 1 February. In the Library she met students from the Habitat for Humanity project and Young Scientist...
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JESUITICA: Going multi-denominational
February 8, 2011
Attentive readers of AMDG Express (7 December, 2010) will have noticed that in founding Clongowes, Fr Peter Kenney told Sir Robert Peel that he intended to establish a lay school for...
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African exchange
February 8, 2011
Claire Broderick and the students of Elements Xavier, Belvedere College, along with John Guiney SJ and Deirdre Connolly from the Jesuit Mission Office, are working on a link project with...
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‘Skippy Dies’ author visits Clongowes
January 25, 2011
Paul Murray, author of the highly-acclaimed novel Skippy Dies, visited Clongowes Wood College on Wednesday 19 January and spoke to a group of students and staff about the writing process....
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Young Scientists make an impact
January 25, 2011
Of the seven Young Scientists from Jesuit schools who showed projects at the RDS this month, two were awarded first prizes in their sections. Gonzaga’s Rory D. Hughes won first...
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Collecting in the cold
January 11, 2011
The Annual Belvedere College Sleep-Out and Fast 2010 raised €111,000 for charities for the homeless: Fr. Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland and Home Again Society. Facing the worst conditions ever...
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Gonzaga galaxy
January 6, 2011
This is the year that the Gonzaga class of 1972 (25 boys) came into its own, with an unusual range of services to the country. Two of its lawyers head respectively Ireland’s...
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Songs and sausages
January 6, 2011
It nearly did not happen – snow had closed the school for days, and travel was difficult. But on the Second Sunday of Advent, in a packed College chapel, a candle...
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