Congratulations to Leaving Cert. student Ronan Dunwell who represented Ireland at the 2024 European Classic Bench Press Championship in Istanbul, Turkiye recently.

Ronan placed 3rd in his respective weight, U93 Kg, and age category: subjunior, U18.  

Representing Ireland has been a big goal of Ronan's since he started Powerlifting only 2 years ago. 

Well done Ronan!

Hard luck to our senior hurlers who were narrowly beaten after a fantastic battle against Carrigaline GC this afternoon in beautiful summer weather at Nemo Rangers GAA grounds. 

Thomas Lafferty in goals made some phenomenal saves throughout the match and twin brothers Jack & Tom Murphy were outstanding and teak tough in defence. Team captain Joe Hennessey led his troops on his home club grounds.  

The team now move their focus to the Munster competition. 

What a wonderful day we had today in the gorgeous sunshine at the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois. The event was jam packed with stands, machinary, food and people. What a fantastic showcase of Irish farming business and enterptrise!  Well done to all the boys for making it such an enjoyable day, and a special thanks to the accompanying teachers.

Congratulations to our current leaving cert student Andrew Kingston who won the ILCA(laser) Ireland Senior National Championships for sailing at the National YC in Dún Laoighre recently. At the event Andrew beat current Olympian, Eve McMahon. 

Previous winners of this prestigious title include Annalise Murphy, Olympic silver medallist (Rio 2016 Olympics) and Finn Lynch, another current Olympian. 

Well done to Andrew and we wish him the very best of luck in his future sailing endeavours!  

Congratulations to teaching staff member Fran Keane on his fantastic Olympic success in Paris.

Fran is the Head Men’s Coach who coached the Men’s heavyweight Double Scull who won Bronze in the Paris Olympics.

Fran has been on career break from teaching for the last five years, working with rowing Ireland in different roles and playing a significant part in bringing rowing from strength to strength in Ireland.

All in Pres. are very proud of Fran’s achievements and we look forward to welcoming him back to Pres. for the start of the school year.

Well done Fran!

Pres RC raced this past weekend at the National Rowing Championships at the National Rowing Centre, Inniscarra and it was another successful outing for the club at the end of season showcase for Irish rowing. 

Our Junior 18s had great rows to claim bronze in the pair and silver in the four for the second year running, missing out on gold by 1.9 seconds, doing themselves proud with two gutsy performances. Sam Hernan and Leo Porion made up the pair, and were joined by Matthew O’Connor, Darach Fanning and cox Odran Murphy for the four. 

We had strong rows from our J15/16 squad who continue to gain valuable racing experience, and Andrew O’Leary was unlucky in the Intermediate Scull to narrowly miss out on the final by .5 seconds!

We’d like to thank all the athletes, coaches and parents who’ve helped make 2023/24 such a great season. 

We’ll be sad to see our 6th years move on but we hope they’ll come back to visit us in our new home. 

It’s over to our internationals now for the rest of the summer!

See everyone in September!