Junior Cup begins with a 13 – 3 win

Castletroy College began their Munster Junior Cup campaign on Wednesday January the 25th when they overcame St Clement’s College 13 – 3 in a hard fought game in Rosbrien. This preliminary round victory was excellent preparation for what will be another very tough game against Rockwell in the next round. With the scores level at 3 – 3 at half time, the team, captained by Rory Cunningham, had to work very hard to see off a very well drilled and determined St Clements. The juniors will now play Rockwell College in the first round. The match has been fixed for Wednesday the first of February in Clonmel. Kick off will be at 3pm. We wish the boys the best of luck in the competition.

Eoghan Fitsgerald crosses for the games only try. 'Photograph Copyright John Humphreys 2012 Used With Permission.'

Conor Linehan on the break. 'Photograph Copyright John Humphreys 2012 Used With Permission.'

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Report from Irish Independent

Linehan pulls strings to see Castletroy home

Castletroy College 13 St Clement’s College 3

Castletroy College emerged winners of this mudfest at Rosbrien which was played in appalling conditions, effectively ensuring that there would be few passages of flowing rugby.

St Clement’s played with the wind in the opening half and their early dominance saw them going in front through a penalty after 10 minutes by Conor Redmond.

Both sides fluffed drop goal attempts and gradually the Castletroy forwards gained control. At one stage, they drove the opposition back 20 metres. This led to a penalty and from 35 metres Conor Linehan found the target, despite the swirling breeze, to tie it up.

The nearest to a first-half try came just before the half-time whistle, but a knock-on denied Castletroy right on the line.

Three minutes into the second half, out-half Linehan landed his second penalty, this time from 25 metres and in front of the posts, and from here to the end Castletroy were so much on top that St Clement’s were not allowed into their half even once.

However, they had to wait until five minutes from the end to get the only try. Fittingly, the outstanding Linehan was heavily involved, his pass sending prop Eoin Fitzgerald over. The out-half then added the extras.

Linehan had an excellent partner in scrum-half Rory Cunningham and, in the Castletroy pack, Fitzgerald, Shane O’Hara and Ronan Murphy impressed.

For the Mike Lynch-trained St Clement’s, Kristian Burchardt, Mark O’Callaghan and Karl Madden did well up front, and Jack Broderick, Steve Ogee, and Declan Browne caught the eye behind the scrum.

Castletroy College– B Donovan; D Garry, B Nash, S Hoare, S McBrearty (J Porter 40); C Linehan, R Cunningham; E Fitzgerald, L Lyons (M O’Mara 59), M Finucane; J Doyle, S O’Hara; D Rowsome, N O’Shea, R Murphy.

St Clement’s College — J Broderick (N Clancy 40); D Ryan, S Ogee, C Redmond, D Browne; H O’Brien-Cunningham (S Ward 59), R Minihan; D Joyce (C Meagher 50), M O’Callaghan, E Kenny; J Dillon, K Burchardt; K Madden, A Dunne, K Clifford (O Kiely 56).

DR. HARTY CUP ROUND UP 2011/2012

Castletroy College entered the Dr. Harty cup for the first time this year. It turned out to be a successful year built on the back of a team that only three years ago were playing in the Munster C competition. That U.15 team went on to win that particular competition and then last year competed in the Munster B grade as an U.16.5 team and were narrowly beaten in the final of that Kinane cup. This year the senior hurling team entered the Harty with the strength of that Kinane team from 2010 and also with this year’s Kinane team who were also beaten in the final in November. It was emerging that a lot of young talent was coming through from those teams. Outstanding performances from players like Edward Doyle, Andrew La Touche Cosgrave, the Morrissey brothers and Cian O’ Brien gave hope that we could be competitive at Harty Cup level. It was a gamble that was to pay off.

Our first game this year saw us take on the amalgamated Kerry Colleges containing most of the Kerry minor hurling team. On the day Castletroy went 10 points up but then took the foot off the gas and were pinned back. It took a late point from Edward Doyle to win the game and qualify us for the Quarter final.

In the final group game we took on Nenagh, both teams were already qualified but the winner would top the group and get a runner up team in the quarter final. Despite a brilliant display we lost the game by four points. On the day Stephen Power, Gearoid Hegarty (captain), Andrew La Touche Cosgrave, Simon Griffin and Daragh Kennedy were outstanding while John Fox was top scorer on the day.

The draw for the quarter final paired us with an Ard Scoil Ris team bidding for their third Harty Cup success in a row. Despite the reputation and big name players of Ard Scoil it was Castletroy that led 10 minutes into the second half. However, a powerful last quarter meant we lost the game by 11 points. On the day young guns like Paddy Morrissey, Cian O’ Brien and Edward Doyle along with more senior players like Stephen Power, Aidain Hanley and Daragh Kennedy gave excellent performances.

In conclusion, it was a successful year our on first venture into the Dr. Harty Cup. Lessons have been learned for next year when 11 of the starting 15 from the quarter final will team up with younger players coming in from the successful Kinane finalists to take another crack at the Harty Cup in 2013.

CASTLETROY COLLEGE: C O’Dwyer; P Morrissey, A Hanley, C O’Brien; J Enright, S Power, J Stack; D Kennedy, S Griffin(Vice Captain); J Fox, W Shanahan, A La Touche Cosgrave; E Doyle, G Hegarty(Captain), K Enright, J Porter, T Morrissey, J Nicholas, J Sheehan, B McGinty, P Callinan, S Power, C Bartley, C Noonan, J Hayes, M Kennedy.

Young Scientist 2011

This year we had two excellent groups participate in the BT Young Scientist competition. They were among a total of 550

groups who were accepted into the event out of 1,743 who applied. To be accepted into the competition is in itself a great achievement and the groups put in great effort incompleting their project. The competitors were Gráinne O’ Mahoney in first year whose project was titled “A Pilot Study into the Effect that Age has on Selective Attention in Children Aged Between Four and Eighteen Years” and Luka Wall and Orla Keavney in second year whose project was titled “The Effects of Advertising on Social Networking Sites”. For anybody interested in next years BT Young Scientist get your thinking caps on now. We will have a meeting after Easter.

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Castletroy College Lego Electronics

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transFORM Exhibition visit

Last week third year students of art and design visited the transFORM exhibition at Limerick school of Art and Design. The exhibition was of the highest standard and a truly wonderful opportunity for students to see craft work of such quality in Limerick.

Ceramics Ireland will showcase the work of ceramic makers living here and Irish makers abroad, in this touring show. The exhibition evolved as a response to the Crafts Council of Ireland’s call to celebrate the Year of Craft 2011. transFORM was launched at Farmleigh Gallery in May to coincide with the World Crafts Council meeting in June. Read more

Students had a brief introduction to the exhibition by the exhibition curator and the opportunity to talk to a local ceramic artist. This has given them plenty of ideas and enthusiasm for their next Junior Certificate project which is a ceramics project.

We also visited the Hunt Museum to view the collection and see the work of Wood artist Liam Flynn. The staff were wonderful as usual and the guided tours fascinating as ever. Read More

A great visit which shows just how much is available in the visual arts in Limerick.

October Newsletter

The October issue of the Castletroy College Newsletter can be downloaded here: Castletroy College Newsletter

Spanish Students win Inter Schools Quiz

The winning team from Castletroy College with their teachers and Senor José Cabello at the Inter Schools Spanish quiz held in Villiers recently.
Back L to R. Ms. J. Murphy, Ms.M. Conlon, Ms. C Murphy, Ms. A. Fogarty and Senor José Cabello
Front L. to R. Mr. N.Harty, Mr. C. Trotman, Ms. Z. Murphy and Ms. G. Kelly

Castletroy College Interschool Showjumping

On the 30^th of October the riders pulled into Clonshire Equestrian Centre ahead of the Interschool Show jumping competition.  Luckily excitement overshadowed nerves for many of the riders. After the course walk it was time to tack up the horses, scrutinise our rivals and start warming up. We were fortunate enough to have three teams competing in the overall competition, two novice teams and one senior team, so we were hopeful for victory and an enjoyable day! The junior riders were Claire Silke, Sairise O’ Byrne, Zara Murphy, Aideen O’ Connor, Sorcha Hasset and Jane Clohessy. The senior team comprised of Lisa Sweeney, Niamh Wetherill, Jodi Finucane and Jenny Delaney.

Our novice teams competed first and the result was quite an achievement when the novice team finished in 6^th place.  The senior team also had a brilliant day with clear rounds and an overall placing of 5^th. All teams showed great sportsmanship, commitment and dedication to their animals and the sport.

Also special congratulations to Jodi Finucane and Jenny Delaney. Both riders competed in the Individual Power and Speed classes. Jenny came 2^nd in the Novice class and Jodi came 4^th in the Open class. Both riders rounds were thrilling to watch and skilfully ridden.  They had to show a combination of power and accuracy over jumps as well as moving move swiftly and speedily over ground.

I’m sure all riders would like to extend a huge thank-you to the fabulous Ms. Jones for organising the training show, her encouragement, the actual show and everything in between, Also to Ms. Hayes for her helpful camera work, advice and good wishes.

The team had a very amusing and entertaining day and riders and horses jumped for joy at the results!

By Zara Murphy