Congratulations to Raghav Rashgotra in 4th Yr. on winning a bronze medal in Chemistry at the Irish Olympiad of Experimental Science in DCU recently.

Round 1 of IrEOES 2022-2023 took place online on Saturday November 12th 2022. A total of 203 students took part: 96 in Biology, 41 in Chemistry, and 66 in Physics. From this, Raghav was selected as one of the top 30 Chemistry students to take part in Round 2. 

Round 2 of IrEOES 2022-2023 took place in DCU on Saturday 21st January 2023. A total of 74 students took part: 28 in Biology, 19 in Chemistry and 27 in Physics. The standard in this competition was incredibly high. Raghav won a bronze medal in Chemistry and will now progress to Round 3 of the competition, which will take place in February/March.

Congratulations to Raghav and we wish him the best of luck in Round 3 

It was another successful outing for PBC's Athletics Community last Thursday 9th February, as over 40 athletes travelled out to Tramore Valley Park to compete in the South Munster Schools' Cross Country Competition.

Massive well done to all athletes for racing so well on a challenging course!

The Minor team of Conor Looney, Jack McCarthy, Callum Harrington, Ronan Dillon, Ruairi O'Callaghan, Ben O'Brien, Charlie McHale and Logan Robertson, retained our Minor Title from last year.

The Junior team comprised of Andrew Hinds, Tom Kelly, Paul Kelly,Liam O'Brien, Tom McCarthy, Harry Geary, Matthew McCarthy and Andy Cuthbert won silver medals.

Both Teams have qualified to compete in the Munster Championships on Friday 24th February in Carriganore, Waterford.

The Intermediate and Senior Teams all ran well but unfortunately missed out the medals this time around. However, Fiachra Wall ran a blinder to qualify for the Munster Championship in the Intermediate age category.

Wishing all competitors the very best of luck in the next round!

Our World Cup '22 fantasy league was a fantastic event. The fantasy league was extremely competitive with over 200 competitors trying their best to make a great team and win.

The winner, Conor Costello in 3rd Yr. won on the final day of the World Cup by 4 points. The league had many different leaders throughout the tournament but ultimately Conor Costello won the league with 414 points. Well done Conor!

Emmett Fitzgerald in 6th Yr. finished in 2nd place with 410 points and Conor Hurley in 6th Yr. finished in 3rd place with 408 points.

The league was extremely exciting and brought great competitiveness and school spirit. Thank you to everyone who participated and supported this Preslink event and well done to our top 3!

Andrew Maume, Preslink committee member

Photo shows L - R : Emmet Fitzgerald, Peter Burke (Preslink committee member), Conor Costelloe and Conor Hurley.

Thanks to all who attended and supported our annual Preslink Christmas Carol Concert held recently in the college theatre.

For those who were unable to attend attached is a link to give you a small flavour for what you missed. 

https://youtu.be/Cqz97wIuLWQ

Wishing you all a very happy and peaceful Christmas.

Preslink Committee

The annual Preslink Christmas Raffle has continued to grow from strength to strength thanks to the generosity of so many local businesses and private individuals. 

Thanks to all our sponsors who helped raise much needed funds for Presentation Brothers Schools in West Africa. 

We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. 

Preslink Committee

Movember 2022

Sincerest thanks to all in the Pres community who once again supported, donated and partook in this year's annual Movember campaign with such generosity. Once again, we have raised awareness and started valuable conversations amongst our student body about testicular and prostate cancers, and mental health. 

We were thrilled to welcome back Dr Derek Power, Consultant Oncologist in the Mercy Hospital to speak to our senior students about his work and preventative measures the young men can take to protect themselves. In addition, we have exceeded our previous best fundraising amount and have donated €2900 to the Mercy Hospital Cancer Appeal. Sincerest thanks and congratulations to all involved!

Please see attachment detailing our upcoming Christmas Carol Concert, making a welcome return on Sunday, December 18th, at 7pm in our College Theatre!!!

You will love it!!! 

Capt. Colm Keena, Deputy Flight Safety Officer for the Air Corps congratulating Lt. John Higgins on receiving his military pilots wings. Both past pupils of PBC.

Lieutenant John Higgins was presented with his military pilots wings by Brigadier General Rory O'Connor. This was the culmination of 3 years of training.

One photo shows John Higgins Snr. with John and GOC Air Corps.Brigadier General Rory O' Connor, General Officer Commanding the Air Corps and Director of Military Aviation

Our Senior Science Quiz Team made up of Leaving Cert students Patrick Moroney, Daniel Hegarty and William Hetherington, represented Pres. in the National Final of the ISTA Senior Science Quiz in Dublin on Saturday last 3rd December which was held in Trinity College Dublin.

The team qualified for this by coming in 2nd place in the regional round of the quiz held in UCC on November as part of Science Week. There were many weeks of extra study and lunchtimes given up to run quiz questions and extra classes were put on before and after school by their Physics, Chemistry and Biology teachers. 

Our boys finished in a very respectable 7th place out of the 41 teams from all over Ireland. This puts all 3 of our boys in the top 21 Gifted Science Students in Ireland this year, a remarkable achievement!

Well done to Patrick, Daniel and William. Thanks to all their Science teachers for giving up so much of their time in helping the team prepare so well.