Sports General

RNLI Cyclathon, May 2020

RNLI Cyclathon May 2020 Nathan van Steenberge (5th Year) and his sailing team are doing a sponsored 2,000km virtual cycling tour of Ireland visiting every coastal RNLI station along the way to raise funds for the RNLI. Current restrictions means that the RNLI had to cancel all live fund raising activities, including this year’s flagship [...]

Virtual Sports & Family Day 2020

It is with great excitement that we are going to launch Blackrock College TV’s first ever live event that will take place on our YouTube channel, on Friday 15th May at 6pm. Your sons sent in over 1300 videos. One of our four core values of Blackrock College is ‘Be There’. 2020’s Sports and Family [...]

The Lockdown Relay Marathon

The Lockdown Relay Marathon Congratulations to Max Caskey, Max Brophy, Danny Clarke, Colm Cowhey, Will Fitzgerald, Matthew Galligan, Sam Green, Joe Tansey, Andrew Harvey, Freddie Mullin, Fergal O’Sullivan, Shane O’Sullivan and Paddy Van Zuydam on completing this fantastic challenge whilst maintaining social distancing and staying within their 2K radius. An incredible €17,700 was raised for [...]

Basketball Challenge for Pieta House

Basketball Challenge Congratulations to Ronan O'Halloran (TY) and his younger brother Aaron on raising €2,000 for Pieta House by dribbling Basketballs. A great initiative for a great cause. Well done boys!

Basketball East Leinster League – BC v Moyle Park College

Basketball East Leinster League 2nd Year BLACKROCK COLLEGE 45 MOYLE PARK COLLEGE 46 The quarter final of the league produced a great match but sadly a narrow defeat for captain Cormac Morris and his squad. It was very disappointing for our boys as they led until the final 30 seconds. Luca Kenny, Cormac Morris, Luca [...]

Golf – Leinster League Quarter Finals. BC v St. Fintan’s, Sutton

Golf - Leinster League Quarter-Finals Thursday, 5th March 2020 Congratulations to our senior golf team of captain Alex Bolger, Thomas Harte (both 5th Year), Matthew O’Brien (4th Year) and Jake Foley (3rd Year) who competed in the quarterfinals of the Leinster league against St. Fintan's of Sutton in Castle Golf Club yesterday, 5th March. Both [...]

Gaelic Football – Dublin Schools U16 Final, BC v St David’s CBS

Gaelic Football Dublin Schools' U16 Final Saturday, 28th February 2020 BLACKROCK COLLEGE 6-18 ST DAVID'S CBS, ARTANE 1-5 Congratulations to captain Cian Ryan (4th Year) and his squad on an excellent victory. The game was a lot closer than the score line suggests as there was only 2 points in it with 20 minutes to [...]

Rugby – Leinster Schools Junior Cup. JCT v Clongowes, Feb 2020

Leinster Schools Junior Cup Thursday, 27th February 2020 BLACKROCK COLLEGE 43 CLONGOWES 15 As ever, Clongowes fought to the end and deserved the final try of the game. We congratulate Captain Gregg Barron (3rd Year) and his squad on this victory. It was a much improved performance. The good news is that there is still [...]

Table Tennis – Leinster Closed U18 Championships

Leinster Closed U18 Championship February 2020 Congratulations to James Hamilton (4th Year) who won the Leinster Closed U18 Championships at the weekend, his first Leinster title and first tournament win. Ben Glennon (3rd Year) came 4th at the same event. Well done!

Golf – Jake Foley Wins At Triple A European Open

Triple A European Open at San Roque Club, Spain Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd February 2020 Congratulations to Jake Foley who competed in the Triple A European Open at San Roque Club, Spain. Jake won the U16 division.