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News Page 2010
Many more news items from this school year can be found
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St. Patrick’s College: Building on Tradition
The Tanaiste and Minister of Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan, has authorised the Board of Management of St. Patrick’s College to commence construction of the new school. Building will begin in the next few weeks and is expected to take eighteen months to two years to complete.
As well as having general classrooms the new state of the art school, catering for 625 students, will include the following specialist rooms: Science labs (3), metal work , woodwork (2) , design and communication graphics, art, religion, computer, guidance, learning support, music, as well as a very large sports hall, including gym, library and large canteen.
The school will remain under the patronage of the Bishop Leo O’ Reilly and the Trustees of the Kilmore Diocese. It will be built on what was called the Intermediate pitch, facing the main pitch, on the existing school grounds.
The beautiful neo- Gothic facade, originally built in the early 1870s, and traditionally associated with the College, will remain intact. This was mainly used by boarders until 2000, when boarding ceased. It was totally unsuited to the needs of a modern school. The Diocese of Kilmore undertook a major renovation and restoration project and converted the building into a beautiful Pastoral Centre. For the last six or seven years the College has only used a few rooms, for administration purposes, in this building. The ‘new wing’ consisting of five storeys was built during the war years in the early 1940s. Five classrooms and an assembly hall were added in the late sixties and early seventies. St. Augustine’s wing was added in 1984. When the new school is completed, the ‘new wing’ of five storeys, as well as Killian’s five classrooms will be demolished. St. Augustine’s , which will be in close proximity to the new school, will remain intact and will be of great benefit with its existing three science labs, and other facilities.
The tendering process was carried out under the Department of Education and Skills strict guidelines, which stipulate that the project be awarded to the company that submits the lowest viable tender. Glenman Corporation, from Glenamaddy in Co. Galway secured the contract to build the new school.
Commenting on the final go-ahead from the Department, the school Principal, Dr. Liam Mc Niffe, expressed absolute delight at the news. He stated that a number of people had been working for a long time to reach this position. He thanked Bishop Leo O’ Reilly for his continuing support for this project, as well as Minister Brendan Smith who has been a keen advocate of the new school. The present Board of Management, under Fr. Dan Sheridan has been actively involved in furthering the project. Dr. Mc Niffe also expressed gratitude to previous Presidents/Principals of the College, Rev. John Mc Tiernan, Rev. Gerard Alwill, and Mr. Patsy Lee who all played a vital role in getting us to this stage today. He also praised the Parents’ Association, whose fundraising for ICT, gym and library resources means that the school will hopefully hit the ground sprinting in two years time.
Dr Mc Niffe concluded that amid the national gloom and fear, the prospect of such fine educational facilities was particularly welcome. It is hoped that the eight million euro project will employ between seventy and one hundred workers at the height of its construction.
Congratulations to Cian O'Reilly and Philip Cooney, former students of St Patrick's College.
Cian, pictured with Dr Liam Mc Niffe, College Principal, was awarded a
University College Dublin Entrance Scholarship and
Philip was awarded a Trinity College Dublin Entrance Scholarship,
based on their Leaving Certificate results.
Junior Cert. results at St. Patrick’s College.
Pictured above are Niall Conroy, Seamus Tierney, Liam Fitzsimons and Ciaran Jones, having just received their Junior Cert. results at St. Patrick’s College. The boys accumulated a grand total of 34 A’s between them. Niall and Ciaran are now in 5th Year while Seamus and Liam are in Transition Year.
Success in Architecture for St Pat’s Transition Year students
The TY students at St. Patrick’s College, Cavan have been selected along with their Architect mentor Noel J Brady on a national architectural exhibition. “A Space for Learning” is the inaugural project of the Irish Architecture Foundation’s new education programme. It featured more than 1,500 students in 90 schools working with 120 architects/architecture graduates around the country to design a creative response to the concept ‘a space for learning’. With the support and guidance of Transition Year co-ordinator Gwen Brady, students at St. Patrick’s College, Cavan, have been working with Noel J Brady of NJBA Architects since the beginning of the academic year 2009/10.The first official exhibition will be Dublin in November.
Further details can be found at www.architecturefoundation.ie.
Congratulations to all St parrick’s College Leaving Certificate Students 2010
Pictured are some of St Patrick’s College students having just received their results.
L-R; Philip Cooney, Cathal Mc Caffrey, Donal Mc Goldrick, Cian O’Reilly,Conor Hayes and Eamon Galligan. Medicine, dietetics, economics/finance, pharmacy and biomedical science are the courses they are hoping to study at Third Level.
Pictured above are members of the College Student Representative Council 2009-10 at the end of their academic year at St Pat's, making a presentation of a framed copy of the Pat's Factor poster to Conor Smith . The poster, designed by Conor has become a trademark symbol of Pat's Factor.
L-R; Marcus Sheridan, Pauric Barry, Samuel Brady, Luke Smith, John Maguire,
Conor Hayes and Luke Mc Guinn.
Front; James Knight, Conor Smith and Fergal Smith.
Sean Finan, Sean Van Haster, Adam Hough, Mark Thornton Connolly, Philip Smith and Lorcan Sheridan the Green Schools project was kick started with a "Pick up for Prizes" anti litter poster compition for first year students.
Winning entries came from Evan burke, Devidas Savicius, and Joe O'Hanlon,
with prizes sponsored by Easons Newsagents, Cavan, Storm Cinema, Cavan and Multi Sound, Cavan.
A BIN IT 2 WIN IT litter campaign involving first year classes picking up litter in designated areas, competing against other classes to see which class could improve their area most took place a week later with St Fionn's taking first prize.
Congratulations to all who participated.
D'Alton Cup Winners 2010
St Patrick’s Cavan 3-9 Abbey Newry 0-4
Congratulations to the St Patrick’s College, D'alton Cup team who are celebrating their
BT D’Alton Cup final win after seeing off the challenge of Abbey CBS in the final in
Pearse Og grounds Armagh on Thursday 13th May.
Backrow(Left to right) Andy McGovern, Darragh Gannon, Declan Lunney, Paul Sexton, Tommy Boylan, Tomás McPhilib, Gerard Olwill, Donovan McCaffrey, Colin McCabe, Dylan Donohoe, Mark Fegan, Dominic Carney, Pauric Sweeney, Glen Brady, Shane Smith, John O'Shea
Front row (left to right) Jason Rahill, Stephen Enright, Darragh Gannon, Brian Sheanon, Thomas Galligan, Ryan Galligan, Matthew McKenna, Ryan Connolly, Ben Conaty, Cian McManus, Eamonn Quinn and Pearse Smith.
Missing from Photo: Dillon Kiernan, Ronan O'Reilly and Aaron Reilly. More photos on our News Page
St Patrick’s College Cavan end year on a high winning the U-16 Cavan Monaghan Soccer League
A sun drenched Kingscourt provided the venue for a pulsating U-16 Cavan Monaghan league final. This year involved the meeting of two old foes, St Pat’s College Cavan and Patrician High School Monaghan. The final provided the opportunity for both teams to end the season on a high. In what can only be described as an action
packed game in stiflying heat St Pat's came through to win with a 1-0 score.
Back row: Jonathan Leddy, Vincent Coyle, Darragh McVetty, RyanReilly, Joseph Masterson,
Craig Murphy, Daniel Talbot, Darren Conaty, Mr Edward O’Callaghan.
Front row: Barry Fortune, Pauric Dolan, Ben Kiernan, Conor Higgins (Captain),
Joe O’Donoghue, Stephen Murray. Missing from photo; Andrew Graham.
Captain Ryan Connolly and team mate Brian Sheanon celebrating the historic win for St Pat's in the D'alton Cup.
Pictured above is Ryan Connolly making a presentation of two framed photos of the D'alton Cup team to team coaches, Mr John O'Shea and Mr Andy Mc Govern.
Pictured above in the 2010 St Patrick's College winning D'alton team with Mr Sean Cavanagh, Tyrone forward
after the awards cermony on Wednesday 26th May. Also in photo are Mr Andy Mc Govern(extreme left) and Mr John O'Shea (third from right)
Pedal for St Pat’s.
The Parents’ Association of St Patrick’s College, organised a sponsored cycle recently that raised €10,453. Pictured are Dr Liam Mc Niffe, (Principal), and the students who raised the most money in sponsorship. Sean O’Reilly, Stephen Kelly,(Clarks of Cavan, Superstore) who presented Darren Mulherin with a bicycle for raising the most money in sponsorship, Conor Walker, Conor Truyen, with teacher Gwen Brady and Alan Finan, (Chairperson of the Parentts’ Association).
Pedal for St Pat's.
Pictured above are this years cycalists who participated in a sponsored cycle
organised by the College Parents Association on Sunday 25th April.
Congratulations to all who participated and to a very hard working Parents
Association, the Breffni Wheelers and the Garda Traffic Corps.
Over €10.000 was raised on the day.
Pictured right are four Leaving Cert students from Ms Carolans senior German class who took part in the Siemens GDI German Debating Competition 2009-10.
Back- Clarence Soliman and Conor Smith.
Front - Mark O'Reilly and Luke Smith.
Cavan Enterprise Innovation Award 2010
On Wednesday 3rd March, the Transition Year students of St. Patrick’s College took part in the Student Enterprise Awards in The Slieve Russell Hotel in Ballyconnell.
Hundreds of young budding entrepreneurs attended this annual event.
The Group who are seen pictured above with their teacher Mr Ray Hogan are Cian Donohoe, Philip Smith, Liam Sharkey, Sean Van Haster, Andrew O'Brien and Pauric Donnelly were awarded the Cavan Enterprise Innovation award for 2010 for their exploits in the field of Innovation.
(Report by Philip Smith)
St Pat’s Transition Year Students enter BT Young Scientist
St Patrick’s College transition year students added yet another highlight to their calendar when two project groups qualified for the Young Scientist 2010.
This group discovered through much research that 75% of deaths in a fire occur from smoke inhalation rather than burns which meant there was a potential market for their device. They got the inspiration for the oxygen inhaler from Stephen’s late grandfather Brian Coleman. He was in Bundoran in 1979 when the Central Hotel went on fire, killing 10 people in total from smoke inhalation. He always wanted to come up with a device to try and prevent people dying under such tragic circumstances. He never completed his work and so the lads tried to take the project one step closer to completion.
The second project completed by Pauric Donnelly, Sean Van Haaster and Donal Cooney, involved the investigation on the effects of external sound on a person’s concentration. This study had only previously been carried out on rats, but dealing with human concentration levels gave it an extra edge. The inspiration for the study came from a school trip to Athlone. While at a talk in Athlone, almost everyone in the class was finding it hard to concentrate because of a high-pitched sound coming from one of the walls. It was later discovered that this was an anti-vermin device which emits a very high pitched sound that humans are not supposed to be able to hear, but which many young people can.
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St Pat’s students were interviewed on the six one news on RTÉ and BBC Radio Ulster, as well as Northern sound. Also the St Pat’s ‘young scientists’ were delighted to be supported by their fellow TY classmates on the Friday who travelled from Cavan to see them.
On the Friday evening the awards ceremony took place – a most enjoyable experience for all. Congratulations to Pauric Donnelly, Sean Van Haaster and Donal Cooney who were credited with a high commendation award/rosette for their project.
Overall it was a most challenging, interesting and beneficial venture for all six students and has brought another strand of success to Transition Year programme in St Patrick’s College.
Pauric Donnelly, Sean Van Haaster and Donal Cooney
Alan Kelly, Stephen Murray and
Padraig Sexton
Transition Year students along with Ms Annmarie Madden and Fr Kevin Fay decided to organise a fund raising soccer match between teachers and students. The student body were asked to donate €2 towards the Haiti Earthquake Disaster Appeal and come along to see their teachers and fellow students battle it out on the soccer pitch. Two mixed teacher teams first took to the arena to play for the prestigious honour of taking on the student team. After what only can be described as an action packed game between Ms Mc Caffrey's and Ms Carolin's teams, the latter won out.
Then it was the turn of the students to show their skills against a mixed teacher team.
Again this proved to be a very tight game with some excellent scoring from both sides. Towards the end, the game took an unexpected twist when the referee Mr Brennan decided to take control by becoming a sixth player for the teachers. His skill on the soccer pitch is legendary and with some very fancy footwork and a very dubious penalty the teachers scored the winning goal.....just as the final whistle was blown!
Final score is still in dispute and may never be resolved....A re-play sometime later in the term maybe?
Mr Brennan (referee) decides to help the teachers out...
Congratulations to Edward McCall pictured here with Dr Liam McNiff, who has been awarded a Science and Engineering Scholarship to study Aerospace Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire, England.
Edward has had a keen interest in Aeronautics, Aviation and the Design of Aircraft from a young age and has ambitions to pursue a career with the Royal Airforce, on completion of his studies. He presently holds a PPL Licence from St. Anglos Airport Enniskillen.
Cavan Enterprise Innovation Award 2010
On Wednesday 3rd March, the Transition Year students of St. Patrick’s College took part in the Student Enterprise Awards in The Slieve Russell Hotel in Ballyconnell. Hundreds of young budding entrepreneurs attended this annual event.
St Patrick’s college entered a number of Transition Year projects and they were successful with their company called Identapats. This company provided a student discount card. This card allowed students to avail of a 10% discount in local participating stores. This creative idea was seen as a pioneering project that spotted a gap in the market. The Transition Years were award the Cavan Enterprise Innovation award for 2010 for their exploits in the field of Innovation.