Castletroy College
| Castletroy College | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland | |
| Information | |
| Type | Secondary community school |
| Motto |
Ut Sint Unum (That They May Be One) |
| Established | 2000 |
| Principal | Pádraig Flanagan |
| Enrollment | 1,150 |
| Colours | Turquoise |
| Website | http://www.castletroycollege.ie/cc/ |
Castletroy College is a mixed community secondary school in Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in December 2000 and has over 100 rooms. It has over 1000 students.
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 junior team have nearly equalled that record.
The school's girls' soccer team have been in more than 6 All-Ireland finals, winning more than half of them. They have been in 8 Munster finals, and won 6. They have had 7 players compete at Irish level, and most of the team compete at Munster 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. In the Junior Cup, they beat PBC and in the Senior Cup, they beat CBC.[1] They also won the munster schools junior cup in 2013
Famed Limerick hurler Paudie Fitzmaurice is a former teacher at the school.
Acclaimed competitive swimmer, Gráinne Murphy also attended Castletroy college
Acclaimed Irish rower Eoghan Whittle is currently a student at the college. Eoghan is a triple european medalist most recently a member of the irish quad which won gold at the Coup de Jeanusse 2015.
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. Another student from the same college, Galin Ganchev, won twice the Irish Maths Olympiad and the Fergus Gaines Cup (2006 & 2008), 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 is also a co-winner of the PRISM Irish National Maths Contest (2007). 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.
In June 2010 Martin Wallace retired as principal, relieving his role to Mr. Padraig Flanagan. Castletroy College is considered the second largest school in Munster.