We would like to acknowledge all the hard work done by the extra curricular team this year.

This has been without doubt one of our most successful years to date.

Below is a list of our main achievements:

 U18 Boys Gaelic Football Dublin Champions

 U18 Boys Hurling Dublin Champions

 U19 Boys Basketball All Ireland Runners Up

 U19 Boys Division 1 Dublin and Leinster Champions and 3rd in the All Irelands

 Senior Rugby South Dublin Cup Winners (2nd yr in a row)

 Senior B Camogie Shield Runners Up

 Junior Golf Leinster Schools Champions

 Junior Camogie Shield Winners

 U16 Girls Badminton reached Leinster finals

 U14 Gaelic Girls Leinster Champions

 U14 Boys Hurling Dublin Champions (2nd yr in a row)

 U14 Badminton Girls and Boys were Runners up in Leinster finals 

 

 Atheltics -Adam Dunne winner of West Leinster Schools Cross Country Meet, Eimear Donnelly Winner of West Leinster Schools Cross Country Meet.

Adam Raitt was 3rd in Leinster School combined events. 

Rachel Dunne won two Hurdle Races in West Leinster and was 3rd in Leinsters. She competes in the All Ireland's in June. 

Congratulations to Mrs Rowland and Ms Daly and the U14 Girls Gaelic team who are Leinster champions. They beat Loreto Kilkenny by a point. 3.4 to 2.6. 

Congratulations to Mrs.Rowland and Ms.Daly and the u14 girls gaelic team who have reached the Leinster finals. They beat St.Dominics in the semi last Wednesday. They were down by 6 points half way through the 2nd half but fought hard and won by two points in the end. 4.5 to 4.3. 

We are hoping that the final will be played this Thursday vs Loreto Kilkenny.

A huge congratulations to Ms. Elliott and the senior rugby team who beat Salesians College 24-19 in the South Dublin Cup final yesterday.

Well done to Mrs. Rowland and Ms.Daly and the U14 Gaelic Football team who beat Loreto on the Green 5-6 to 3-4. They are now through to the Leinster semi finals.

Congratulations to Mr.Williams and the U14 hurling team who beat Terenure 3-8 to 13 in the Dublin final before the Easter break. The school has won this two years in a row now. The future for hurling in St Colmcille's looks very promising.

Well done to the U14 Girls Gaelic team who beat Mac Daras 10-11 to 2-2 today

Well done to the U14 hurling team who beat Castleknock Community school in the semi-final today 5-10 to 3-8.

Best of Luck to Mr. Williams and the U14 Hurlers who are playing their semi final this Monday (7th April)  at 2pm on the school pitch against Castleknock C.C. 

Best of Luck to James Madden, Conor ' O Donoghue,Sam Lally, Ronan Wallace, Karl Reddy & Christian Tshibango who are playing for Dublin South Colleges in the Leinster U14 A Final against Dublin North College in O' Toole Park at 2pm today.

Well done to the U14 Hurling team who beat St. MacDaras on Monday 5.7 to 1.5. The boys will play Castleknock in the semi final next Monday.

Well done to the U14 Girls Gaelic who beat Colaiste De Ihde last Thursday 5.16 - 4 points. Well done girls, they play MacDaras in their last group game, a win will see the girls qualify for the Leinster Quarter Finals.

Hard luck to the Senior Camogie team who lost to Our Ladys in the Shield final last Friday. Well done to the girls for getting this far.

St. Colmcilles community school beat firhouse cs in the quarter final of the south dublin cup in a pretty one sided affair. Colmcilles racked up in excess of 70 points on a very blustery day in Terenure RFC rugby grounds. 

Colmcilles beat oatlands on Tuesday 25th march in the semi final.

Good luck to the U19 boys badminton team who play in the All Ireland Finals tomorrow

Well done to the Minor camogie team who won their first round match 5-15 to 2-3

Well done to the U14 girls gaelic team who beat Old Bawn Community School yesterday 7-10 to 2-2

Hard luck to the Senior Football team who lost the Leinster final today. Well done to the boys for getting this far.

Hard luck to the girls basketball team whom lost in the quarter finals against Muckross yesterday.

The new girls basketball kit has arrived. A huge thank you to the Parents' Association for sponsoring the new kits.

Hard luck to the Senior hurlers who lost in the Leinster final on Saturday in Arklow.  Well done to the team for getting this far.

Well done to the U18 boys footballers who won the Dublin final today 1-14 to 2-5 against Lucan C.S. They play in the Leinster final this Thursday, 

The under 14 boy and under 14 girls badminton teams are through to the Leinster finals which is taking place this Thursday in Baldoyle.

The 2nd yrs boys basketball team lost Dublin quarter finals v Col Padraig Lucan  25-18. 

1st yr play 1/4 final v Mac Daras on Thirsday. 

The second years basketball team play in the quarter finals this Wednesday against Muckross,

Well done to the 1st year and 2nd years girls basketball teams who both beat Rathdrum last Monday.

Well done to the 2nd yr boys basketball team who beat Benildus college 27-25 yesterday.
Hard luck to the 1st yr boys who lost to Benildus yesterday.

Review of the All-Ireland Basketball Weekend in Galway

Played 3 games in Galway on Sat 1st Feb. Traveled down on the Friday night to prepare for the All Ireland Playoffs.

1st game was against Colaiste Mhuire, Crosshaven. We beat them 52 - 43 with all the lads playing an important part in the result. 

2nd game was against Scoil Chuimsitheach Chiarain Carraroe. The final score was 56 - 36 but didn't reflect the true nature of St Colmcille's potential with the lads feeling like they'd played against a team + 2 referees!

Final game was against CBS Portlaoise who had beaten SCC Carraroe by 12 points in their first game. We beat Portlaoise 46 - 40, despite having both Mark Dolan and Stephen Ward fouled out. 

With 3 teams stuck on the same number of wins, the winner was decided by points difference. The local team, SCC Carraroe went through to the All Ireland Semi Finals on this technicality. 

Congratulation to the girls under 16 division one badminton team who are through to the schools Leinster finals.

Well done to Isabel Doyle, Amy Lawlor, Niamh O'Reilly, Karen Cooney and Ali Beatty. Best of luck girls.

Also congratulations to the boys under 14 division one badminton team who are through to the Dublin schools finals.

Well done to Cian Jones, Evan Cullen, Alexander Dent and Paul Kavanagh. Best of luck boys.

Good luck to the U19 boys basketball team who are playing in the All Ireland quarter finals in Conamara this weekend.

Well done to the U18 boys gaelic team who won their semi final match today 3-15-2.07

Well done to the Boys U14 team who are through to the Dublin Division 1 Finals after beating Terenure and Wesley College this week.

U14 Girls beat Wesley College and are playing St. Marys of Naas on Friday.

U16 Girls division 1 are playing in the Dublin Finals tomorrow.

Leinster champions

Badminton Update: The team has gone on to win the Leinster School Badminton Final and are through to the All-Ireland Finals! Well done to Adam Raitt, Cian Whelan, Kevin O’Reilly, Eoin Hennessy, substitute Jack Lawlor and manager Tom Foyle.

Well done to the U14 hurling team who beat Benildus college by 1 point in a friendly match yesterday 2-8 to 3-4.  The boys league begins on the 12 February against Templeogue College.

Hard luck to the 2nd yr girls basketball team who lost to Loreto Crumlin in their 3rd match yesterday.

Hard luck to our U19 boys basketball team who lost the All Ireland final 47-59.

After a very tough 1st quarter the St Colmcilles boys were always on the back foot. They fought hard and gave it their all to come back into the match. Mark Dolan was top scorer on the day with 26 points.

The boys still have the league play offs to look forward to.

Match report from www.basketballireland.ie is below

St Colmcilles, Knocklyon 47 (15) - (M Dolan 26, D McDonald 8, B Kildruff 4)

Patrician HS, Carrickmacross 59 (29) - (S Marron 21, S O’ Hanlon 16, A Connolly 6)

MVP – Stephen O’Hanlon (Patrician HS, Carrickmacross)

A first quarter rampage by Sean Marron and Stephen O’ Hanlon paved the way for an easy victory for Patrician HS of Carrickmacross over St Colmcilles of Knocklyon who they defeated 47-59 to win the U19 B Boys All Ireland Cup.

Marron and Hanlon scored a combined 21 out of 23 points in the first quarter to leave their opponents visibly shaken and in complete shock when Patrician HS struck without mercy from the get go.

It only took Patrician HS five seconds to strike first when Marron easily dribbled past St Colmcilles’ Stephen Ward and Darragh Egan and converted a dipping 3 point shot. Marron and Hanlon inflicted further damage when they combined to score 5 unanswered baskets before Mark Dolan was finally able to put St Colmcilles on the board.

St Colmcilles only began to find their feet at the very end of the first quarter but by then it was too little to late as the damage had been done and they were left already trailing by a deficit of 18 points.

Patrician HS failed to capitalise on how stunned they had left their opponents by their first quarter performance in the second quarter as they managed to only convert 6 points in comparison to St Colmcilles’ 10. In a complete reversal of his performance in the first quarter, O’ Hanlon repeatedly gave away a number of fouls and free throws all of which St Colmcilles were only too happy to convert in order to reduce the deficit. However, this still left them trailing their opponents by 14 points at halftime.

Just as it looked like Patrician HS were thinking along the lines of a repeat of their performance from the first quarter, Mark Dolan strong armed his way past Adrian Connolly to score an inside lay up in an attempt and get his team back into the game. Unfortunately for Dolan it didn’t quite have the effect he was looking for as Patrician HS proceeded to increase their lead thanks to 7 third quarter points each from both Marron and O’ Hanlon. O’ Hanlon’s performance saw him end as the MVP of the game having scored 16 points.

A couple of neatly converted free throws from Dolan and Brian Kilduff, and a baskets for Thomas O’ Mahoney and Stephen Ward in the fourth quarter allowed St Colmcilles to finish the game on a floury of momentum but in the end the deficit was too great for them to overcome and Patrician HS of Carrickmacross left with the commanding victory and as winners of the U19 B Boys All Ireland Cup.

BT Young Scientist News

The School was represented this year by two second year students, Ben Nolan and Fionnuala Connelly. Their entrepreneurial technology project was titled “Mediavista - Smartphone controlled TV Media Centre”. This project was developed with the assistance of their teachers Dr Tom Foyle and Dr Des Murphy. The technology allowed the conversion of a standard TV into a smart TV allowing internet access to sites such a YouTube and the play back of music and film on a standard TV. This all can be controlled from the comfort of the couch using any smartphone which acts as a remote control. The project generated great interest and they received several orders to purchase the device at the exhibition from attendees. Their picture and project also featured in the Irish Times in an article entitled “Smart, Easy-to-Market Product puts Technology Centre Stage at the RDS” on Friday 10^th January. It also drew high profile interest from the Chief Technology Officer of RTE, Richard Waghorn who was interested in its potential to be integrated with RTE’s Saorview service. The project also drew the attention of the Labour Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and the CEO of the BT Ireland Colm O'Neill. Overall the project received an excellent “Highly Commended” award in recognition of the calibre of the work achieved by these young scientists.

Badminton News

Congratulations to the Under 19 Division one boys team who defeated De la Salle Churchtown to win the Dublin schools title. Well done to Adam Raitt, Cian Whelan, Kevin O’Reilly, Eoin Hennessy, substitute Jack Lawlor and manager Tom Foyle.

Best of luck in the Leinster Finals lads!

Well done to the 1st year and second year girls who beat Alexandra college yesterday and both teams beat Rockford manor today.

Well done to the the u18s football team who beat Lucan Community School 5-17 to 2.7. They are now through to the semi finals.

Congratulations to Mr.O'Hora and the U19 basketball team who won their All Ireland semi-final today 60-53.