Caleb Sheehan, a valued and much loved member of Pres. staff for almost thirty years is now very actively involved in raising awareness of Motor Neuron Disease.

Caleb was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease (MND) more than a year ago and having retired early, Caleb now supports the IMNDA (Irish Motor Motor Neuron Disease Association) by raising awareness  and supporting #Voice4MND

More information can be found at  https://imnda.ie/

 Please take the time to watch the two short video clips with links below. 

Caleb’s Video:

 https://youtube.com/shorts/724NamUYJEc?feature=share

Peter’s Video

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IXYDmourPw&t=7s

Please support and share.

Thank you. 

Congratulations to all involved in Munster Rugby on their great success in the URC final over the Stormers in South Africa last weekend. 

Special mention to our Past Pupils; Niall Scannell, Peter O'Mahony (Capt.), Shane Daly, Alex Kendellen and Rory Scannell (see photo) who all played important roles in helping Munster to this great success.

Presentation Brothers College is very proud of this achievement and we hope to see more of our past pupils feature for Munster in the years ahead. 

Well done to all in Munster Rugby!

Words to make you cry, words to make you reflect and words to make you hungry - a pithy but somehow apt description of the PBC Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal winning essays this year. 

Ross Daly, Ben Wrixon and Mark O Connell were the respective winners and PBC Librarian and judge, Sophie McKenzie had, as ever, a really difficult task whittling down the 40 plus entries to a final shortlist of the aforementioned medal winners and the 3 highly commended students, Reuben Skuse, Dara McMahon and Kevin Corkery. (All medal winning essays can be read on attached PDF)

Working from a quote from chef, Heston Blumenthal, Ross Daly constructed a beautiful love letter to his deceased grandmother to take the gold medal; among the judge's comments was: 

However, it was the sincerity and openness of the essay that disarmed me; I felt that the writer poured his heart and soul into this, not just his writing talent. 

On Ben Wrixon's persuasive essay on the dangers of nostalgia, the judge noted:

I respected the writer's confidence in applying his criticisms to the most immediately relevant and topical questions raised by the essay subject, diving straight into the political dimension of nostalgic thinking instead of idling in a more low-stakes discussion of personal stagnation. Compelling and passionately argued. 

And on Bronze Medal winner, Mark O Connell's essay, again inspired by Blumenthal's quote, judge Sophie McKenzie had this to say:

This piece was simple but nicely textured and layered once you dig into it – much like the chicken sandwich it celebrates. Mark O’Connell captures the peaceful, observational atmosphere of eating a nice meal in a diner. Just as the pleasures of eating such a meal are fundamentally quite simple, his writing style and descriptions are also simple but enjoyable and easy to read. 

 Well done to the winners, to all those who entered; much thanks to Ms McKenzie for her forensic and balanced judgement and of course to all the English teachers who nurture such wonderful creativity.

Pictured are Ross and Ben (Mark O Connell unavailable)  with Principal, David Barry and Librarian Sophie McKenzie and members of English Dept Senior Cycle (Kayleigh Whelan unavailable).

Season finale!!!

What a difference a school year makes! 

The PBC Podcast team have matured into seasoned broadcasters and once again Brian and Sam are at the helm as we bring down the curtain on a wonderful Season 3 with a fascinating and eclectic episode.

RTE Champions League pundit by night, adolescent psychotherapist by day, ex soccer pro Richie Sadlier joined Ronan McAuliffe to discuss football, mental health, toxic masculinity and cancel culture.

What annoys a 16 year old male? Ian, Eric, John and Brian discuss their pet peeves.

Ruairi O Donnchadha treats us to an array of wild and quirky facts in his inimitable style on ‘Did You Know?!’

Pres, Munster, Ireland and Lions legend Peter O Mahony has his eyes firmly fixed on the World Cup but he took time out to join us in studio and reflect on the Grand Slam, Pres/Christians 2007 and his love of gardening. 

Radio Drama? Impression sketch? We’ll let you decide!! - what happens when John J Neville meets Vito Corleone, Benoit Blanc, Elvis and Gollum - worth a listen for Ronan McCarthy’s Gollum impression alone ( trade secret - the trick is to gargle while speaking!)

Barista and Barcelona, ECDL and Lifesaving, Podcasting and Preslink? Brian, Sam and Connor Buckley are joined by the irrepressible Stuart Gilbert as they look back on some of their highlights during Transition Year and offer advice to 3rd years on how to make the most of the coming year.

Finally, retiring Maths and Irish teacher Mr John Scannell joins Cian O Mahony and Peter Burke for an in-depth chat about his nigh-on 3 and a half decades teaching here in Pres and plays us out with his choice of music- a must listen.

Huge congratulations to the TY podcasters on a most impressive legacy, massive thanks to school management, to Ms McKenzie, to Michael Jordan, to our sound editor Elaine Smith and to all our contributors during the season. 

Tune in on ACAST, Spotify or Apple.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/pbc-podcast/id1550646073

https://open.spotify.com/show/2zFzN11iNiDxxphR4Sw0tB

https://shows.acast.com/the-pbc-podcast

 Patrick O'Sullivan and Shane Healy, both in 1st year, celebrated Carrigaline United's win of the Cork Schoolboys Premier league (U14’s) in Ballea Park. Patrick is a goalkeeper and Shane is a striker - both ends of the pitch covered! 

Well done to both Patrick and Shene

Photo shows (L - R) Shane and Patrick

1st Year Winners (50 Points): James Tuite, Ruairi O' Callaghan, Aaron Currane, Tom Gibbons and David Kelleher, all from 1/A

Junior Winners (63 Points): Cali Sheahan, Conor O' Mahony, Billy O' Connell, Greg Cronin O' Toole and Dario Cammoranesi, all from 2/D

Senior Winners (76 Points): JP Curtin, Danny Higgins, Kieran Barry and Marc O' Toole (missing from photo), all from 4th year.

Huge thanks to all for their engagement and donations!!!!

The PBC cricket team had a comfortable victory over CBC in the Mardyke cricket grounds on Thursday. 

PBC set CBC 178 to chase after a good batting performance with Connor Stevenson and Cian MacKenzie opening the batting and putting a good partnership together. The runs followed smoothly with each batsman adding to the score from Callum Stevenson, Sam MacKenzie, Daniel Barry all contributing. The score really accelerated when the PBC captain and Irish U19 player, Eshan O’Sullivan, came to the crease and added some big boundaries. CBC took some fantastic catches to slow the score rate. The other batsmen of John Kennedy, Umar and Usman Asif adding runs after a quick fire cameo from Fionn Roussel. 

In the second innings CBC were put to the sword with some great fielding and bowling. All of the team got a bowl with wickets from Daniel Barry and John Kennedy and Sam Mackenzie doing very well. The wicket keeper Connor Stevenson was involved in a number of runouts and stumpings. CBC were all out for 110.

A good day for cricket and a well deserved win for PBC over CBC.