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he Jes first years have had a fantastic successfully year. Last Monday in Ballyhaunis in the league final blitz, the boys won all their three games. The panel are unbeaten in either league or championship all season, and have annexed both league and championship titles. The students have been a credit to the school and […]

he boys and girls of Colaiste Iognaid enjoyed tremendous success at the 95th Ghent International Regatta that was held on May 10th, 11th.  The event attracted almost 2000 rowers from 16 countries and included crews from as far away as South Africa.  Despite the difficult weather conditions that were more associated with the west of

o conclude an extraordinarily successful year for the Coláiste Iognáid debate team, top speakers Philip Buckley and Kate Duggan represented Ireland in the ‘International Competition for Young Debaters 2014’ this weekend. Nearly 1000 pupils competed in national qualifiers in February and finally 108 young national finalists from more than ten countries assembled at the world

reparation for the National Mock Trial competition began in February. Dozens of applicants vied to emulate the unprecedented achievements of last year’s team who tasted national and international success at the National Mock Trials in Dublin and the Empire World Mock Trials in New York. The sight of last year’s trophies for best team and

enior Debaters Alastair Richardson, Frank O’Neill and Eoghan Frank achieve ‘The Double’ for only the second time in the thirty year history of the West of Ireland Debating Competition by winning both sections of the Grand Final in NUIG last month. Alastair won the best Individual Speaker in his opposition to the motion ‘This House

In the early hours of the last Friday of term a squad of 29 players accompanied by two teachers, nine parents and one sister left from Sea road for their end of season tour to Narbonne in the South of France. Excitement was high as we pulled off to start our four day adventure in

he Junior Debating National Mace Finals were held on Saturday 5th April, 2014 in UCD when the top 80 speakers in Ireland competed in the 500 speaker competition. Huge congratulations to the Jes debaters who took part – special congratulations are due to:                        

ou are cordially invited to the official launch of the JES 150 Years of the Jesuits in Galway Edited by Tom Kenny on Tuesday May 6th at 5.00 for 5.30pm at Colaiste Iognáid, Sea Road, Galway.  Guest Speaker: Sean O’Rourke, RTÉ [button color=”red” size=”small” link=”https://www.colaisteiognaid.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Jes-invite-A4.pdf” target=”blank” ]Read More…[/button]