Senior Transition Year – St. Conleth's College

Please… No More Ice Cream!

Before their Gaisce Hike sorted out their leg muscles and stamina, TY Co-Ordinator Mr. Trenier organized a hard-hitting talk about drug and alcohol addiction for them and Fifth Year. A timely lesson! And that Gaisce Hike? Well, compared to previous years, when the weather was torrential and tormential, TYs’ ‘resilience’ was not quite so much […]

Keep TrYinG!

TYs are getting ready for the two, huge end-of-term events, the Gaisce Hike and the TY Musical, but they are still finding time for a variety of activities and events, e.g.: Cecilia, our Green Czarina, led an eager group on a mission with the Tidy Towns gang to clean up cycle and pedestrian paths in […]

Conlethian Clan Cultural Connection!

TY Naoise McCann was with his classmates on an art outing to the National Gallery… and he ran into one of his photographer father’s famous portraits of the artist Brian O’ Doherty. Fionn McCann (Class of 1991) is also a proud Conlethian! Fionn is a renowned portrait photographer. And Naoise’s TY friends (escorted by Ms. […]

David is Goliath!

The dominant giant of squash, that is! Transition Year David MacNicholas participated in the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club Appleby Squash Championship last weekend. He won the Shield in the Men’s B Squash Championship and he was also the winner of the FLTC Junior Squash Championship and was awarded the Tom Clancy Perpetual Junior Squash Championship […]

Enabled!

Our Transition Years and Third Years learned about different abilities the hands (and other limbs)-on way as Enable Ireland Adult Services paid us another visit and everyone got active in the school hall: wheelchair basketball and obstacle course, ball-toss, wrestling… were all on the agenda, as well as a presentation in the Performance Hall. Once […]

Gang Gaeilge!

Shhhh… do yo hear that? It’s Arthur Wellesley, The First Duke of Wellington, rolling in his grave! Why? Because, during Seachtain na Gaeilge, even a school which lies at the top of Waterloo, Wellington and Clyde Roads is very proud to come out ‘all Irish’! Not that our Irish Department has ever been shy about celebrating our […]

TYs and Other Reptiles

Our Transition Years are recently back from two weeks of Work Experience and we missed them dearly while they were gone. Especially the double period on the Friday afternoon. And since they have been back, they have been involved in an especially hectic flurry of activity, not that there is ever a dull moment throughout […]

They Didn’t Run Away…

…but they did join the circus! Yes, the TYs were spared the sneaking out of the bedroom window/shimmying down the drainpipe/hopping on a westwards-bound freight train routine just to join the circus because the circus came to them! See, amongst TY Co-Ordinator Mr. Trenier’s many past occupations was serving as The Tall Man in a […]

Green Convenors!

We all know how enthusiastic is our Green Schools czar, Cecilia. She has been teaching and leading TYs all year in recycling and other green issues under the guise of CSPE: Sustainability, and we enjoyed the lunchtime ‘battery bazaar’ a couple of weeks ago. Well, more photos have come to light from that celebration of […]

COPped On!

Yes, the virtue-signalling and jet fuel-dripping Green elites have gathered in that noted hotbed of climate action, Azerbaijan, but on the ground it is people like our very own Cecilia Franken who has done the real work of saving the Earth from climate change armageddon. Cecilia has been taking TYs all year, leading them in […]

But,Your Honour, My Client is…

… an (otherwise) upstanding student at that renowned school for the sons of Catholic gentlemen, St. Conleth’s College! Surely he could not be guilty… Our Transition Years are currently on Work Experience and we miss them dearly. Before they left, they were involved in an especially hectic flurry of activity, not that there is ever […]

Gaeilge 24!

The Irish Department twisted our collective arm and commandeered TY for a day to celebrate Gaeilge 24! Starting with Bricfeasta as Gaeilge, Mr. ODualing joined in for some Tae agus Plé, followed by a nation-wide Tráth na gCeist. But Gaeilge 24 was not over yet! Still to come was Tóraíocht Taisce and Poc Fada down […]

TYred?

TY Co-Ordinator has his charges running full speed into the midterm- they have been so busy that they have neglected to send yours truly much photographic documentation of their adventures. We will soon search out that treasure trove of photos, but we did manage to capture a few recent TY happenings, ourselves. Last Friday, while […]

Fifty Years of St. Conleth’s Women!

Ann Sheppard, as she always does, pulled it off! The end of May is a mad time at every school, but especially at St. Conleth’s, where we have many more awards, shows, matches, parties and ceremonies than your run-of-the-mill school, and there were whispers that the ladies could wait till Autumn… when we would surely […]

Our Talented Youth!

Our TYs are already enjoying their well-earned summer break, but one last bit of news: Milo Smith (International Relations), Daire O’Daly, John Byrne (Physics), Saoirse (Biology & Genetics) and Michael Aherne-Gray (Sports Science) recently graduated from the Centre for Talented Youth’s Early University Entrance Course. At a beautiful ceremony at DCU, Dr. Colm O’Reilly commended the […]

The Hand of Gord!

Mr. Gordon Weldon never tires in his efforts to encourage St. Conleth’s to embrace the new ‘house system’ and the students responded this year with zeal and enthusiasm. The recently completed House Soccer Tournament was a particularly successful venture and, as you can see from below, the participants quickly formed new allegiances and loyalties. Well […]

L’année de Transition, C’est Moi!

If anyone should be allowed some royal hubris, it is Gav Maguire. For five years he has ruled Transition Year… with a velvet glove, only matching the more authoritarian Louis XIV in girth, the love of pastry and the possession of two fine calf muscles. For Gav is a kind master, one who built unbreakable […]

TYs are GO!

Months in the making… multiple diva explosions and walk-outs …. numerous wardrobe malfunctions… the Kirwan twins on the loose: it has been a hectic run-up to the premiere of ‘The Game of Tiaras’, but tonight it will all be worth it! 18:45 in the Performance Hall. See you there, and, in the meantime, enjoy these […]

Young Classicists: The Golden Age!

When we received the list of finalists for the Young Classicist Awards we were thrilled and immensely proud, as it was chock full of Conlethian Young Classicists! And that pride reached hubristic proportions, when our Classics Kids army, 91 hoplites strong, descended upon UCD and carried off the bling, with Fifth Years winning the Senior […]

Gav’s TY Swansong?

‘Graceful’ might be a stretch but Gav Maguire is certainly finishing off his TY Moderatorship in style! Current TYs are about to head off on their Gaisce Hike, and will be very busy with their musical rehearsals when they return, but Gav has already set the stage for next year’s TY class by giving current […]