Castletroy College

Castletroy College is a Community School in Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 2000.[1] It has over 1,200 students.[4]

Castletroy College
Location
Castletroy
Information
TypeSecondary school
MottoUt Sint Unum (That They May Be One)
Established2000[1]
PrincipalPádraig Flanagan[2]
Enrollment1,200[3]
Colours  Turquoise
Websitecastletroycollege.ie

Achievements

Sport

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.

In March 2008, Castletroy won both Munster Schools rugby premier competitions, the Munster Schools Junior Cup and the Munster Schools Senior Cup.[5] Limerick hurler Paudie Fitzmaurice is a former teacher at the school. Competitive swimmer, Gráinne Murphy also attended the college.

Other events

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.[6]

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),[7] a silver medal at the Balkan Maths Olympiad (2008),[8] 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.[9]

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Welcome". Castletroy College. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. "Contact". Castletroy College. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. Department of Education (2021). "School Detail:CASTLETROY COLLEGE". education.ie. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  4. Department of Education (2021). "School Detail:CASTLETROY COLLEGE". education.ie. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "The billion-dollar Collison brothers". 24 January 2014.
  7. "News - headlines - DCU".
  8. "The British Mathematical Olympiad Subtrust (BMOS) and Committee (BMOC)".
  9. "Girls come first in physics - The Institute of Physics blog". 13 December 2010. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010.


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