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Gaisce Adventure Journey – Waterford Greenway

Gaisce Adventure Journey The Waterford Greenway Thursday 20th & Friday 21st April 2023 Twenty three, Transition Year students travelled to The Waterford Greenway on Thursday 20th April and Friday 21st [...]

Rowing Training Camp in Amposta Spain, April 2023

Rowing Training Camp Amposta, Spain April 2023 Twenty-three students across 3rd, 4th and 5th Year travelled to Amposta, South of Barcelona, Spain to engage in a six-day all weather training [...]

Rowing – Limerick Regatta Report

Limerick Regatta Monday, 22 April 2023 On the 22nd of April, our Rowers attended Limerick Regatta at O’Briens Bridge. Despite the torrential rain for most of the day, Blackrock saw [...]

Paralympian Winner Jason Smyth Visit – Paralympics 2024

Paralympics 2024 As part of the promotion of the Paralympics, Paris 2024, the French embassy Educational Attaché kindly organised a visit from Jason Smyth, Ireland’s most successful Paralympian winner of [...]

Table Tennis All Ireland Championship, May 2023

All-Ireland Champions May 2023 Congratulations to our Blackrock Junior A, captained by Daniel Patterson (3rd Year) which has regained the All-Ireland Junior Championship, last won by Blackrock in 2018, at [...]

Visit of the French Ambassador, April 2023

Visit of the French Ambassador Thursday, 27th April 2023 We welcomed the French Ambassador, Vincent Gue rend, his wife Emmanuelle Gue rend to Blackrock last Thursday morning, 27th April. They [...]

Swimming – Ronan Fahey (5th Year) selected to Represent Open Water Cup in Italy

Leinster Open Water Cup & European Junior Open Water Championship Congratulations to Ronan Fahey (5th Year) who has been selected to represent Ireland in the Leinster Open Water Cup in [...]

Gaelic Games – News of the Past

Gaelic Games Congratulations to Alex Considine (class of 2016) and Mark Grogan (class of 2018) who played for the Dublin Hurlers in the championship against Antrim at Corrigan Park, Belfast [...]

News of the Past – Colum Corless gets highest mark in Applied Maths

Congratulations to Colum Corless (class of 2022) who achieved 100% in Applied Maths in the Leaving Certificate, joint 1st in the country. A fantastic achievement which reflects well on himself, [...]

Gaelic Football – BRC v Clonkeen College, April 2023

Gaelic Football April 2023 BLACKROCK COLLEGE 8-10 CLONKEEN COLLEGE 4-5 Congratulations to captain Louis O’Brien and the under 17 Gaelic football team on their victory over Clonkeen College in the [...]