School News

Young Scientist Competition 2018

Congratulations to: NAME YEAR PROJECT TITLE John Huggard 5th Year Technical analysis line equations and algorithms Eric Brandt 2nd Year A study into the use of reflective materials to increase [...]

Inter Schools Science Quiz

Inter Schools Science Quiz Thursday, 15th November 2018 We had three teams in the Irish Science Teachers inter-school quiz on Thursday 15th November. I thank all 6th Year teams for [...]

Rathdown Model United Nations 2018

Model United Nations (MUN) Friday 9th & Saturday 10th September 2018 The standard of debate was very high at the annual Rathdown MUN and each committee covered a wide range [...]

Blackrock College Junior Debating – November 2018

Junior Debating Update Thursday, 15th November 2018 On Thursday 15th, we contested the 3rd round of the Junior Schools Debating Competition hosted by the UCD and Literary and History Society; [...]

Trinity College Entrance Exhibition Award 2018

Leaving Certificate 2018 Congratulations to Hugh O’Leary (Class of 2018) on his selection for an Entrance Exhibition Award. This award, when added to the 20 achieved at UCD, reflects well [...]

Spanish Debating Update – St Wolstans School Cellbridge

Spanish Debating Tuesday, 3rd October 2018 Unfortunately the Spanish team lost their debate against St Wolstans School Cellbridge on Tuesday 3rd October. The motion was ‘It’s too late to save [...]

Highest TY Amount Raised for Alzheimer Society of Ireland

Congratulations to the Transition Year boys who raised a total of €3,000 for this worthy cause. This is the largest amount that they have ever raised. The staff, management and [...]

Past & Present Pupils Sing with Andrea Bocelli

Blackrock Past & Present Pupils Sing with Andrea Bocelli in the 3Arena Tuesday 30th & Wednesday 31st October 2018 Congratulations to Tom Dwan and Harry Keyes (both 6th Year) and [...]

Celebration of the College Chapel, 1868-2018

Celebration of the College Chapel 1868 - 2018 Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, the Papal Nuncio was chief celebrant at the mass on All-Saints Day, 1st November, in celebration of the [...]

UCD Entrance Scholars Awards 2018

Congratulations to the students below, all Class of 2018, each of whom has been awarded an Academic High Achievers Award to U.C.D. ACADEMIC HIGH ACHIEVERS AWARD WINNERS Zachary Al-Mukhaizeem Karl [...]