Boherbue Comprehensive School

Boherbue Comprehensive School Bóthar Buí
Location
Boherbue Cork , P51 TK28 Ireland
Coordinates	52°09′33″N9°03′45″W / 52.1591°N 9.0624°W / 52.1591; -9.0624
Information
Founded	1973
Enrollment	518 [1]  (2024)
Website	boherbuecs.com

Boherbue Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Boherbue, County Cork, Ireland.

History

This school was opened in 1973 as a co-educational, non-selective post-primary school. The term 'comprehensive' was current at that time and the curriculum of the school combined what were formally regarded as the 'secondary' subjects with the 'technical' subjects.^{[ citation needed ]}

Sport

Gaelic football is the most popular sport within the school^{[ citation needed ]} and it competes in the All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship.^{[ citation needed ]} In 1992, the school were runners-up in the All-Ireland Senior Vocational School Championship and in 1998 it won the All-Ireland Junior Vocational School Championship. In 2001, the school won the All Ireland Ladies Senior Football Vocational Championship. Sports such as basketball and hurling are also played at the school.^{[ citation needed ]}

Past pupils

• Tony Buckley (born 1980) - former Munster Rugby, Sale Sharks and Irish Rugby International ^[2]
• Michael Moynihan (born 1968) - Fianna Fáil politician and TD for Cork North-West ^[3]
• Donncha O'Connor (born 1981) - Cork senior inter-county GAA player ^[4]

References

1. Subject Inspection: History - Boherbue Comprehensive School (PDF), Department of Education, April 2025, p. Boherbue Comprehensive School is an inter-denominational co-educational post-primary school under the joint trusteeship of the Diocese of Kerry and the Minister for Education. Student enrolment at the time of the inspection [Dec 2024] was 518 students, retrieved 29 August 2025– via assets.gov.ie
2. Leogue, Joe (25 August 2011). "Rugby fever hits Ballyhooly and Kanturk". Irish Independent . Retrieved 6 October 2023.
3. O'Halloran, Marie (9 February 2020). "Election 2020: Michael Moynihan (Fianna Fáil)". The Irish Times . Retrieved 6 October 2023.
4. Hussey, Aisling (13 November 2013). "Boherbue school takes YouTube by storm" . Irish Farmers Journal . Retrieved 6 October 2023.

External links

• Official website