Clongowes Wood College

Rowers race across the Atlantic

January 31, 2018

Old Clongownian Tommy Browne (2010) and the 'Relentless Rowers' set an Irish record rowing 5,000 km across the Atlantic Ocean, and raised funds for sick children

Read more
‘He was a good man’

January 24, 2018

Staff and students of Gonzaga, along with Jesuits, family and friends, said a fond farewell to Joe Brennan SJ at his funeral Mass in the Church of the Holy Name

Read more
A Jesuit ‘man of the people’

January 5, 2018

The first ever children’s book about Fr Willie Doyle SJ, has just been published. It's available in English and Irish

Read more
Clongowes go amber

December 12, 2017

Clongowes Wood College SJ in County Kildare was awash with forty shades of amber for the launch of the school’s application for the Amber Flag Mental Health initiative. 

Read more
The coming of Christ the ‘rebel’

December 8, 2017

DECLAN O'KEEFFE :: Songwriter Jackson Brown saw Jesus as a rebel and wondered how our celebrations of Christmas today would sit with the man whose anger cleared the temple of...

Read more
A gigantic climb for sick children

November 15, 2017

Karl Hayes, transition year student of Clongowes Wood College SJ, climbed to 5,550 metres above Mount Everest base camp in aid of Crumlin Children's Hospital.

Read more
Passing on our values

July 12, 2017

GAVIN T. MURPHY :: Jesuit educators try to instill quality values among their students, and it is hoped that they will become deep-rooted and passed on to others.

Read more
Peter Kenney

July 7, 2017

Peter Kenney was an Irish Jesuit credited with restoring the Society of Jesus in Ireland after their suppression, as well as with establishing several colleges and devoting much of his...

Read more
Jesuit schools African immersion programmes

June 14, 2017

Clongowes Wood College SJ have recently come back from a Lesotho Immersion Programme, while Belvedere College SJ are engaging in a Zambia Immersion Programme right now.

Read more
Blessed John’s gift of presence

May 31, 2017

Declan O'Keeffe, Head of Communications at Clongowes Wood College, reflects on the mass of thanksgiving for the beatification of Fr John Sullivan SJ which took place on 20 May 2017.

Read more