Sports General

News of the Past – Ireland 6 Nation Squad, Class of 2009-2016

Ireland 6 Nations Squad Congratulations to Andrew Conway and David Heffernan (both Class of 2009), Garry Ringrose (Class of 2013), Hugo Keenan (Class of 2014) and Caelan Doris (Class of 2016) on their selection for the Ireland 6 Nations squad. We wish them well.

Rugby – Leinster Schools’ Cup Draw

Leinster Schools’ Cup Draw Senior Cup: Blackrock v Belvedere Junior Cup: Blackrock v St. Mary’s (Preliminary Round) **************** Winners v Temple Carraig Dates to follow We wish them well!

Rugby – Cheerleaders 2021

Cheerleaders 2021 The students below will lead the Cheerleading Team for this year’s Cup Campaigns. We wish them well. CHEERLEADERS Sam Bruton 6th Year Cian Macken 6th Year Freddie Noonan 6th Year Alex O’Keeffe 6th Year Adam Power 6th Year

Blessing of the Boats

Blessing of the Boats Saturday, 5th December 2020 Inclement weather resulted in the transfer of the Blessing from Dun Laoghaire Harbour back to the College, last Saturday morning 5th December. Fr O’Brolchain presided over a lovely liturgy in which he described Rowing as a ‘Diamond sport’ and that the Rowers epitomised that ‘never give up’ [...]

Athletics – Technical Feedback Event

Technical Feedback Event Saturday, 5th December 2020 Last Saturday, 5th December, Blackrock College and Belvedere College met in Distillery road to provide a group of second year students with a chance to compete and receive technical feedback for field events. Due to the nature of the past year, this served as the boys first athletics [...]

Rugby – Junior Cup 2021

Junior Cup 2021 Congratulations to Jack Angulo, Donnie Grehan and Derry Moloney (all 3rd Year) on their election as Captain and Vice-captains of the J.C.T. respectively. Jack Pollard (3rd Year) completes the leadership group. We wish them well.

Tennis – 2nd Year House Competition

2nd Year Tennis House Competition 50 boys participated in the 2nd Year House Tennis competition which was a tremendous success. We congratulate our winner Ben McElligott (Ebenrecht), runner-up Michael Breslin (De Valera), 3rd place Dylan O’Connor (De Valera), 4th James Neary (Leman) and 5th place Rory Treacy (Ebenrecht). Outcome was based on matches played as [...]

Rugby – Senior Cup Team 2021

Senior Cup Team 2021 Congratulations to James Culhane and Michael Moloney (both 6th Year) on their election as Captain and Vice-captain of the S.C.T. respectively. Scott Barron, Rory McGuire (both 6th Year) and Zach Quirke (5th Year) complete the leadership group. We wish them well.

Karl Ashe Trophy 2020

Karl Ashe Trophy 1ST SEMI-FINAL 6TH YEAR DAYBOYS 12-12 5TH YEAR DAYBOYS 1-12 Congratulations to captain Robert Kenny and the 6th Year Dayboys on their semi-final win over the 5th years, captained by Sean Purcell. Early goals from Darragh Dempsey, Michael Nealon gave the 6th years a healthy lead going in on half time. Team [...]

Golf – Connacht Boys U16 Gold Championship

Connacht Boys U16 Gold Championship Congratulations to Jake Foley on his second place finish in the Connacht Boys U16 Gold Championship last Saturday. Jake returned a 69, 3 under-par, only to be pipped by one shot. Only 2 players managed to break par in a 90 strong field.
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