Achievements
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Congratulations to all of our Senior Camogie Players who won the All-Ireland semi-final in Belfast on Saturday and are off to play in the All-Ireland Final in Tipperary on Saturday 8th March. We wish the girls the best of luck. |
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Congratulations to Transition Year Student, Yvonne Cahill, who has been chosen to play on the Under 17 Women's Republic of Ireland football team against Poland on 22nd and 24th February. Well done Yvonne. |
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Congratulations to all of our students who took part in the National Young Scientist Competition in RDS Dublin from January 9th - 12th 2008. There was huge interest in all the projects entered by the students and two groups received "Highly Recommended" awards. One project titled "The pivoting ramp" and the other "Using DNA to send secret messages". Thanks to their Science Teachers Ms Laura McNamara and Ms Deirdre Brosnan who worked with the girls over the past year and accompanied them to Dublin to the competition. |
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Congratulations to 3 of our 2007 Leaving Cert students who received scholarships to University College Cork based on their excellent Leaving Certificate Results. The three students are Alice O'Donovan, Deirdre O'Brien and Alexandra Romanova. We wish these girls every success in their future. |
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Congratulations to all of our students who received their bronze and silver Gaisce President Awards. The girls had to achieve success in three key areas - Community, Skill and Physical. We are very proud of all the girls. |
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Congratulations to Danielle Boyle, Fifth year, who travelled to Belarus last
April as one of eighteen Irish transition year students involved with the Belarussian Orphanage Project.
This Project is a voluntary registered Charity working in Minsk where it concentrates its efforts in the
Novinki Orphanage and in the Draznia and Viacha Institutions. To read more about Danielle's trip click here. |
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Congratulations to our past pupils, Alison Baxter and Katie Finn,
who graduated in 2007. These girls volunteered in Sri Lanka for the summer and spent a month
teaching english and helping out in the schools. To read more about their trip click here. |
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Congratulations to all of our students who achieved outstanding results in their
Junior Certificate Examinations. One student (pictured left) achieved 11 A grades and five students achieved
10 A grades. We are very proud of all the girls. Well done!
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Past Pupil, Derval O Rourke began competing in hurdles with local club Leevale AC in her native Cork. She was extremely successful at underage level, holding both the Irish Indoor and Outdoor records. On the back of her underage success, she was offered an Athletics Scholarship at University College Dublin in 2000 and graduated from there in 2003 with a Degree in Arts, the same year that she ran in the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. Derval completed her academic career with a Business Postgraduate from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business in 2004. 2004 also say Derval compete at the Olympics in Athens, but an injury she sustained in the build up to the games severely hampered her chances. In 2005 she ran in the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Madrid and the World Student Games in Izmir, where she won the bronze medal in the 100 metre hurdles. Dervals breakthrough came when she took gold in the 60 metre hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in March of 2006, breaking her own Irish record in the process. By doing so she became the only Irish female athlete to win a world indoor title. The win confirmed Dervals astonishing rise through the world athletics ranks.During the summer of 2006 Derval continued to break her own Irish 100 metre hurdles record at meets throughout Europe. Derval finished off a fantastic 2006 season with a silver medal winning performance in the 100 metres hurdles at the European Championships in Gothenburg in August, recording a time of 12.72 in the process, yet another Irish record. Derval is now looking forward to the 2007 season, when she hopes to become the first Irish female athlete to make the final of a sprint event at a major championship, when she competes in the World Championships in Osaka in August. |
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Congratulations to TY3 minicompany class who recently won "Best Overall Company" in the Cork Regional Finals. The girls designed, created and sold student ID cards to the students in school and other local schools. The girls won a big trophy, ipod shuffles and €1500 towards educational equipment in the school. The girls will also now go forward to represent the school in the National Finals in Tullamore in May. We wish them and their teacher, Miss Hurley, the best of luck. Well done! |
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Congratulations to Aisling Twomey, Transition Year who just won the final of the Soroptomist Public Speaking Competition in Mullingar. |
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Congratulations to some of our TY and 5th year students who recently completed part of their Bronze and Silver Gaisce Awards programme when they visited StarSailing Adventure Centre in Kenmare. The Instructors said the girls were an absolute pleasure to work with and wish them every success in the completion of the awards scheme. |
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Three Christ King students, inclduing two sisters were members of the Irish Karate Team that represented Ireland at the 10th World Karate -Do Championships in Sydney, Australia on the 17th August, 2006. Earlier in the year, in April, all three girls had travelled to Germany to compete in the European JKA ( Japan Karate Association) S Shotakan Karate Championships. |
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