Castletroy College
| Castletroy College | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
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Castletroy | |
| Coordinates | 52°39′47″N 8°32′27″W / 52.663134°N 8.540899°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Secondary school |
| Motto | Ut Sint Unum (That They May Be One) |
| Established | 2000[1] |
| Principal | Brian O’Donoghue[2] |
| Enrollment | 1,200[3] |
| Colours | Turquoise |
| Website | castletroycollege |
Castletroy College is a Community School in Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 2000.[1] It has over 1,200 students.[citation needed][3]
Achievements
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[edit]The school's girls basketball team have won the Senior Munster Cup final four times in a row and the senior all Ireland three times in a row. The school's girls' soccer team have been in more than 6 All-Ireland finals, winning more than half of them. A number of players from the school have also played at provincial and county level.[citation needed]
In March 2008, Castletroy won both Munster Schools rugby premier competitions, the Munster Schools Junior Cup and the Munster Schools Senior Cup.[4] Limerick hurler Paudie Fitzmaurice is a former teacher at the school. Competitive swimmer, Gráinne Murphy also attended the college.[citation needed]
Other events
[edit]In 2004, Castletroy pupils Aisling O'Brien and Naomi Guerin won the regional "Young Chef of the year" awards. In the same year, Patrick Collison, a student of the school, won second prize at the EsatBT Young Scientist of the Year Awards. Patrick and his brother John Collison are now billionaire entrepreneurs.[5]
Another student, Galin Ganchev, won twice the Irish Maths Olympiad and the Fergus Gaines Cup (2006 & 2008), got silver medals at the 5th European Union Science Olympiad (2007) and the Irish EU Science Olympiad (2007),[6] a silver medal at the Balkan Maths Olympiad (2008),[7] and was a co-winner of the PRISM Irish National Maths Contest (2007). Subsequently, he went to Cambridge University to study mathematics.
In December 2010, a Leaving Certificate student Aislinn Hayes was awarded a medal from the Institute of Physics for coming joint first in the Physics 2010 examination.[8] Her brother Eoin Hayes, also an alumnus of the school, was elected in the 2024 Irish General Election and is serving as a TD for Dublin Bay South.[9]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Welcome". Castletroy College. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ "Contact". Castletroy College. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
- ^ a b Department of Education (2021). "School Detail:CASTLETROY COLLEGE". education.ie. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "The billion-dollar Collison brothers". 24 January 2014.
- ^ "News - headlines - DCU".
- ^ "The British Mathematical Olympiad Subtrust (BMOS) and Committee (BMOC)".
- ^ "Girls come first in physics - The Institute of Physics blog". 13 December 2010. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010.
- ^ Matthews, Jane (1 December 2024). "Sinn Féin's Chris Andrews loses seat in Dublin Bay South shock to Social Democrats' Eoin Hayes". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
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