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Frewen Cup
The Frewen Cup is an annual inter-schools hurling competition organised by the Munster PPS division of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Sometimes referred to throughout its history as the Munster Colleges Junior Football Championship or the Munster PPS Under-17 A Football Championship, it has been contested since 1936. The final, typically held in November, serves as the culmination of a knockout series of games played between October and November. Eligible players must be under the age of 17. As of 2025, 8 teams participate in the Frewen Cup. The title has been won at least once by 22 different schools, 13 of which have won the title more than once. Coláiste Chríost Rí are the all-time title record-holders with 16 titles. St Brendan's College are the 2025 champions, having beaten Clonakilty Community College by 2-13 to 0-11 in the final. History Since 1927, the Munster Cup had been organised by the Munster Colleges Council and contested as a provincial senior Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or palming the ball into the other team's Goal (sport), goal (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goal and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar, signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. Two points are awarded if the ball is kicked over the crossbar from a 40 metre range marked by a D-shaped arc, signalled by the umpire raising an orange flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungarvan CBS
Dungarvan CBS () is a secondary school in Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland. It was founded in 1807, and is one of the oldest Christian Brothers schools in the world. As of 2018, over 300 students were enrolled in the school. As of mid-2022, the principal was Agnes Guerin. Dungarvan CBS supports the Junior Cycle and Senior Cycle curriculum, and also offers an optional Transition Year programme. Notable alumni * Jamie Costin, Olympic race walker Race walking, or racewalking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ... References External links * TY-Admissions-Policy-2016 {{Edmund Rice Schools in Ireland Secondary schools in County Waterford Congregation of Christian Brothers secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland 1807 establishments in Ireland Educational institutions established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS High School Clonmel
CBS High School Clonmel (Ardscoil na mBráithre), is a second level Christian Brothers school in Clonmel, County Tipperary in Ireland. It was built in 1899 and its first Superior was Joseph White. A new school building was first occupied in 1971. By 1985, it had a student population of 550 and 31 staff. As of 2024, the school had over 700 students enrolled. Sports Gaelic games The school competes in the Dr. Harty Cup in hurling and the Corn Uí Mhuirí in Gaelic football. In 2011, the school were the All-Ireland B Post Primary School Gaelic football champions and went on to reach the Corn Uí Mhuirí final in 2016. The school produced a number of All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winners for Tipperary GAA in 2011, including 2016 all star Michael Quinlivan. Other former students have represented Tipperary & Waterford minor, under 21 & senior hurling & football teams. These have included Mark Kehoe, who won minor, under 21 & senior titles with Tipperary (in 2019). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coláiste Na Sceilge
Coláiste na Sceilge is a secondary school in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland. It is a co-educational community school which grew out of the amalgamation in 1999 of St John Bosco Secondary School, Scoil Uí Chonaill and Waterville Vocational School. In 2018, the former Kerry footballer Maurice Fitzgerald was appointed as its principal. As of 2019, it had an enrollment of 511 secondary school students. The school offers courses under the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate (including Leaving Certificate Applied and Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme) curriculum. The school has won a number of provincial and national titles in Gaelic football. Sport * Hogan Cup (1): 2009 * Corn Uí Mhuirí (4): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2009 Teachers * Maurice Fitzgerald (b. 1969) - Gaelic football selector Alumni * Donie O'Sullivan (b. 1990) - journalist, CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coláiste Choilm
Coláiste Choilm is a mixed second-level school in Ballincollig in Cork, Ireland. The school was founded in 1987 to meet demand for second-level education in the rapidly growing satellite town of Ballincollig. Since 1991 it has had a gaelscoil co-located on its campus, Gaelcholáiste Choilm. For the 2023/2024 academic year the school reported an attendance of 675 girls and 684 boys for a total of 1359 students. The school has had two overall winners of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. Simon Meehan won in 2018. Alan O’Sullivan and Cormac Harris won in 2020. Alumni * Daniel Goulding (b. 1986) - Gaelic footballer * Ciarán Sheehan (b. 1990) - Gaelic footballer * Seán O'Donoghue (b. 1996) - hurler * Cian Kiely (b. 1996) - Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Colman's College, Fermoy
St Colman's College () is an all-boys voluntary secondary school, and former boarding school, in Fermoy, County Cork. The college was founded in 1856 and opened in 1858 as the diocesan college of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne. Archbishop Thomas Croke, after whom Croke Park is named, became the school's first president in this year. History The site upon which St. Colman's was built was bought by Fr. Timothy Murphy in 1856. Murphy commissioned John Pine Hurley to design the new college building. Twenty months after construction began, St. Colman's opened its doors to its first students in 1858. The original college building is three storeys in height and has a six-storey tower. The façade is of red sandstone, with limestone facings. The building, with its tall tower, has since become an iconic structure in Fermoy and looms over the town's skyline. A west wing was added in 1887 while the school chapel was added in the early 1900s. A new classroom block was added to the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Finbarr's College, Farranferris
Farranferris, also known as St Finbarr's College, was a secondary school in Cork City, Ireland. It opened in 1887, closed in 2006, and was an important institution in the twentieth century history of the city. History Saint Finbarr’s Seminary At the time of the Penal Laws Irishmen who wanted to study to become priests had to travel overseas and many of them went to France (Cork, for example, had close links with Irish colleges in Bordeaux and Toulouse). French colleges were closed down during the French Revolution and this caused a drop in the supply of priests to Irish parishes. In 1795 St Patrick's College, Maynooth was opened to provide for the education of Catholic priests in Ireland (supported by the British Government to prevent priests being influenced by revolutionary ideas from abroad) and that same year the Bishop of Cork set up a post-primary preparatory seminary in Ballyvolane House (near present-day Ellis's Yard), it was to prepare boys for Maynooth and other sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midleton CBS Secondary School
Midleton CBS Secondary School is a Catholic secondary school for boys, located in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland. Midleton CBS was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1867. History The Christian Brothers arrived in Midleton in 1867 at the request of the parish priest who recognized the need of a dedicated school to educate the town's Roman Catholic male youth, at a time when the Church of Ireland's Midleton College was fast expanding. The local community provided donations for the cost of the construction, and the school opened on 3 April 1867, with over 300 pupils joining in its first week. The last of the Christian Brothers left the school in 2003, with the monastery and old school building being taken over by the Diocese of Cloyne for parish use. The school buildings were massively extended in the 2010s, in a project which cost €12.6 million. Curriculum The school offers both the Junior and Leaving Certificate cycles. The curriculum teaches first yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Flannan's College
Saint Flannan's College is an Irish co-educational secondary school located in Ennis, County Clare, which takes its name from the 7th century patron saint of the Dál gCais. It was formerly an all-boys boarding school; however, the first girls' class was entered in 2002 and in 2005 the boarding school was closed. In 2003 an extension which added over 20 new rooms to the college was completed. A measure of the expansion that has taken place over the past thirty years is that in 1962, there were some 370 pupils, 140 of whom were day boys. Only 37 teachers were in attendance. By 2004, enrollment had risen to more than 1,001 students. Staff numbers had risen to 60. In September 2002, co-ed classes were introduced in First Year. In September 2003, a new wing containing extensive new facilities was opened. In the 2010–11 school year there were 1,206 students. History In 1846, the Diocese of Killaloe lent its prestige and patronage to the private academy conducted at Springfield Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Monastery
The North Monastery ( Irish: ''An Mhainistir Thuaidh''), commonly known as The Mon, is a co-educational education campus comprising Scoil Mhuire Fatima Primary School, North Monastery Co-educational Secondary and Gaelcholáiste Mhuire AG, located at Our Lady's Mount, Cork, Ireland. History The North Monastery was founded on 9 November 1811 when Brother Jerome O'Connor and Brother John Baptist Leonard were given charge of a school in Chapel Lane by the Bishop of Cork, Rev Dr Moylan. Seventeen students attended on the first day. In 1814, a 14-acre sloping site was acquired from a wealthy Catholic businessman, Sir George Goold, Baronet, and a new school was built. The North Monastery had found its permanent home. An outbreak of typhus fever in the city in 1816 saw the school being used as a temporary hospital. Brother Griffin, a poet and novelist, became a member of the North Monastery in 1839. He died on 12 June 1840 in his 37th year. His remains are interred in the cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Sexton Street
CBS Sexton Street (also referred to as Coláiste Mhichíl) is a Christian Brothers secondary school located in Limerick, Ireland. The school has approximately 340 students. The current principal is Denis O'Connor, and the current vice principal is Rob Williams. History Coláiste Mhichíl was founded by Edmund Rice, a Christian Brother, to provide education for boys in Limerick city. Their numbers having declined, the Christian Brothers no longer have day-to-day involvement in the administration of the school. Instead, a lay principal and board of management manage the school with the Christian Brothers remaining as trustees. The school has been successful in soccer, having won the senior boys' FAI All Ireland soccer championship in 2007 and 2008. In 2012, the school were national runners-up, having lost the final to St Aidans, Cork. Financier JP McManus, a past pupil of the school, has funded academic scholarships for a number of students each year going to third level. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De La Salle College Waterford
De La Salle College Waterford is a secondary school in Waterford, Ireland with over 1,000 students and 90 teachers. De La Salle Teachers Training College The De La Salle Brothers had a presence in Waterford since the 1870s, and opened a teacher training college at Newtown, Waterford in 1894. In 1894 Mr. J.L. Ahearn was appointed professor of irish, the first such appointment in a teacher training college. Students who completed the two year course were awarded the National Teacher(NT) qualification entitling them to teach in primary (national) schools. In May 1939, lay teacher training ceased (male teacher training centered in St. Patrick's, Drumcondra), however, the De La Salle brothers continued to be trained for another 10 years,De La Salle College De La Salle GAA Club along with Marist and Presentation Brothers, in 1972 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
