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Easter Tenebrae at Clongowes

March 29, 2018

Clongowes Wood College SJ staged the annual Easter liturgy of Tenebrae at the school's Sports Hall on 21 March

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The Dead of Winter

March 7, 2018

DECLAN O'KEEFFE :: Snow is much more likely to arrive during Lent and to coincide with our remembrance of His 40 days in the desert.

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Rowers race across the Atlantic

January 31, 2018

Old Clongownian Tommy Browne (2010) and the 'Relentless Rowers' set an Irish record rowing 5,000 km across the Atlantic Ocean, and raised funds for sick children

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‘He was a good man’

January 24, 2018

Staff and students of Gonzaga, along with Jesuits, family and friends, said a fond farewell to Joe Brennan SJ at his funeral Mass in the Church of the Holy Name

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A Jesuit ‘man of the people’

January 5, 2018

The first ever children’s book about Fr Willie Doyle SJ, has just been published. It's available in English and Irish

Clongowes go amber

December 12, 2017

Clongowes Wood College SJ in County Kildare was awash with forty shades of amber for the launch of the school’s application for the Amber Flag Mental Health initiative.

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The coming of Christ the ‘rebel’

December 8, 2017

DECLAN O'KEEFFE :: Songwriter Jackson Brown saw Jesus as a rebel and wondered how our celebrations of Christmas today would sit with the man whose anger cleared the temple of...

A gigantic climb for sick children

November 15, 2017

Karl Hayes, transition year student of Clongowes Wood College SJ, climbed to 5,550 metres above Mount Everest base camp in aid of Crumlin Children's Hospital.

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Passing on our values

July 12, 2017

GAVIN T. MURPHY :: Jesuit educators try to instill quality values among their students, and it is hoped that they will become deep-rooted and passed on to others.