Congratulations to 2nd Yr. student Conor Looney who represented Ireland in running recently. 

Conor was part of the junior mixed relay 4 X 1,500m representing Ireland against Scotland, England and Wales. The Ireland team placed third, so Conor and all in Pres. are delighted with his first international medal- doing Pres., Cork and Ireland proud!

The very best of Luck to Conor in his upcoming track events.  

SciFest is the largest second-level STEM fair programme in Ireland. Hosted locally in schools and regionally in third-level colleges throughout Ireland. 

In Pres. there were 7 Scientific Investigations projects in TY this year competing in the Scifest@school.

The winning project was ‘ investigation into the effect of music on plant growth’ by Daniel Ryan.

The Runner up project was ‘ investigation into the knowledge of Leptospirosis amongst PBC Rowers’ by Odran Murphy & Sumanth Gangadhara Swamy.

We also had a winner of the Eirgrid Award ‘ Investigation of the creation of lift by Aerofoil’ by Daniel Crowley and Ben Twomey.

Scifest Award winners are Daniel Crowley & Joe Healy with a project called ‘Does caffeine affect your sporting performance’

Well done to all the students that worked so hard on their projects all year, the projects are on display this week in the school in Social area B, in advance of the regional competition in MTU next week.

A group of our 4th year students recently took part in this amazing Intinn programme 

Intinn is a national film and mental health programme which offers Transition Year students in East Cork and Co. Waterford the opportunity to explore mental health, personal well-being and strategies of resilience through film and related workshops.

Since its pilot in 2019, Intinn has grown to reach 7,000+ students throughout Ireland both in person and online.

Congratulations to 4th Yr. student, Oisín Tóibín, who has recently been selected to join the Ireland U16 Men’s Basketball Team. They will compete in the European Championships in North Macedonia in August, where they will play Great Britain, Norway, Slovakia, Denmark and Romania.

Pictures show Oisín at the recent 4 Nations Tournament in Dublin where they defeated Wales and Scotland, but eventually lost a very competitive final to England.

All in Pres. are very proud of Oisín, and we wish him the very best of luck at the European Championships in August.  

We had a beautiful day in Pres today celebrating diversity on a global scale as we welcomed a group of Transition Year students from the Lycee Leconte de Lisle on Reunion Island way down south in the Indian Ocean

Reunion is a former French colony, 30 by 40m miles in area, situated 600kms east of Madagascar with a large active volcano at its heart. It is a French Departement and is part of the French education system.

12 girls and 7 boys met Pres students across all year groups, both socially and in class, sharing Chemistry, Physics, English, Geography and of course French lessons. There were ice-breaking activities and informal discussions between students as well as more formal presentations and interactive projects.

We also worked with them to create a bi-lingual podcast episode with students and teachers sharing music and poetry as well as discussing cultural and educational similarities and differences.

As two small islands with a colonial past, we had lots to discuss and it was wonderful to see the boys and girls interact so intelligently and respectfully as well as having so much fun.

The Reunion students were presented with special Pres rugby 2024 Cup Final poloshirts as a memento of their visit to Pres.

Special thanks to all the teachers who contributed and to teachers who were so patient with the sometimes spontaneous disruption! Special thanks also to management for backing this initiative and for all their support on the day.

Congratulations to our Junior Cup squad on defeating local rivals, CBC, on a scoreline of 19 - 14 in Musgrave Park today, Wednesday 20th March.

Well done to all our Junior Cup squad and their coaches - Mr. Brian Mac Mahon, Mr. Paul Downes, Mr. Ben Murphy and Mr. Eoin Quilter, a huge commitment from all of them. The College is extremely greatful for their efforts. 

As a result of this victory, Pres. now claim both Munster Senior AND Munster Junior Cup Champions for 2024!! 

This is the second year in a row that Pres. has won the double!! 

Winning both the Junior and Senior Cups two years in a row has only ever been achieved twice previously in Pres., once in the 1940's and again in the 1960's.

The teams of 2023 and now the Junior and Senior Cup teams of 2024 have made history and will be forever remembered in the history of the College for this fantastic achievement.

A lot of hours of hard training from every age group from first year up, with many different coaches, have contributed to this outstanding achievement.   

Well done to all involved in Pres. Rugby.

Our Biodiversity Photo/Arts Competition came to a conclusion this week, with entries adjudicated on by Miss Crowley, Miss Walsh and students from the Green Schools Committee. We had entries of Photos, Digital Art Work and Poetry from students across the year Groups and staff members also. The standard was high and it was difficult to choose winners, so thank you to all who entered, contributing to a very successful competition and a very creative display for Arts Week. Congratulations to our winners, Senior students Andrew Maume, Alex Cronin & Johnny McCarthy for their photos entries, Ronan McCarthy and Anaus Sayed Muhammad for their wonderful poetry, which they recited during Arts Week. Junior student winners were Oscar Madden, Evan Lynch, James Randles James O' Regan and Jack Ringrose for their Photo entries, Eoin MacEneaney and Tom O' Neill for their Digital Art and to our First Year Photo Winners Daniel Shorten, Lewis Devins, Noah Joyce, Tom Kelleher, and Oisin Cryan. Congratulations also to our Staff Winner was Ms. Fitzgerald. Thank you to all, enjoy the Gallery.

Congratulation to our Senior Cup squad and all their coaches on a fantastic victory over local rivals CBC in a hard fought battle in Musgrave Park.

On a final score of  PBC 33   CBC 31, Pres now moves to top of the list on the honours board with THIRTY TWO senior cup titles - an outstanding achievement and something which the school is very proud of.

A huge thanks to all the senior coaches for their phenomenal effort in getting the team to this level!!

Photo shows captain Gene O'Leary Kareem being presented with the Senior Cup by his Mum, Cecillia.

Separate photo shows all the senior coaches L-R Mr. Ian Lehane, Mr. Cian Bohane, Mr. Don Buckley, Mr. Ger Burke, Mr. Ciarán O'Regan (S&C) and Mr. Peter Scott.