Castletroy College

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Castletroy College
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Castletroy College
Castletroy
Coordinates 52°39′47″N8°32′27″W / 52.663134°N 8.540899°W / 52.663134; -8.540899
Information
TypeSecondary school
MottoUt Sint Unum (That They May Be One)
Established2000 [1]
PrincipalPádraig Flanagan [2]
Enrollment1,200 [3]
Colours  Turquoise
Website castletroycollege.ie

Castletroy College is a Community School in Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 2000. [1] It has over 1,200 students.[ citation needed ] [4]

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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 school's girls' soccer team have been in more than 6 All-Ireland finals, winning more than half of them. A number of players from the school have also played at provincial and county level.[ citation needed ]

In March 2008, Castletroy won both Munster Schools rugby premier competitions, the Munster Schools Junior Cup and the Munster Schools Senior Cup. [5] Limerick hurler Paudie Fitzmaurice is a former teacher at the school. Competitive swimmer, Gráinne Murphy also attended the college.[ citation needed ]

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. Patrick and his brother John Collison are now billionaire entrepreneurs. [6]

Another student, Galin Ganchev, won twice the Irish Maths Olympiad and the Fergus Gaines Cup (2006 & 2008), got silver medals at the 5th European Union Science Olympiad (2007) and the Irish EU Science Olympiad (2007), [7] a silver medal at the Balkan Maths Olympiad (2008), [8] and was a co-winner of the PRISM Irish National Maths Contest (2007). Subsequently he went to Cambridge University to study Mathematics.

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. [9]

Notable alumni

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References

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  2. "Contact". Castletroy College. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. Department of Education (2021). "School Detail:CASTLETROY COLLEGE". education.ie. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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  8. "The British Mathematical Olympiad Subtrust (BMOS) and Committee (BMOC)".
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