Castletroy College is a co-educational
community school in Newtown,
Castletroy,
County Limerick
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,
Ireland
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. It was founded in 2000.
As of 2024, it had over 1,200 students enrolled.
Sport
Basketball
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is played at the school and the girls 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 also been in more than 6 All-Ireland finals, winning several of them.
In March 2008, Castletroy's rugby teams both won the
Munster Schools Junior Cup and the
Munster Schools Senior Cup. The former
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...
hurler
Paudie Fitzmaurice previously taught maths at the school. Competitive swimmer
Gráinne Murphy also attended Castletroy College.
Other activities
In 2004,
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 later went on to found the payments company
Stripe.
Another student, Galin Ganchev, won several
Maths Olympiad medals, including silver medals at the 5th European Union Science Olympiad (2007) and the Irish EU Science Olympiad (2007), a silver medal at the Balkan Maths Olympiad (2008), and was a co-winner of the PRISM Irish National Maths Contest (2007).
In December 2010, a student from the school was awarded a medal from the
Institute of Physics
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It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
for coming joint first in that year's Leaving Certificate Physics examination.
Notable alumni
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John Collison, entrepreneur
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Patrick Collison, entrepreneur
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Eoin Hayes, politician
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Leah McNamara, actress
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Gráinne Murphy, swimmer
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Ronan O'Mahony, rugby player
References
External links
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Secondary schools in County Limerick
Educational institutions established in 2000
2000 establishments in Ireland
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