| Castletroy College | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
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Castletroy | |
| Information | |
| Type | Secondary school |
| Motto | Ut Sint Unum (That They May Be One) |
| Established | 2000[1] |
| Principal | Pádraig Flanagan[2] |
| Enrollment | 1,200[3] |
| Colours | Turquoise |
| Website | castletroycollege |
Castletroy College is a Community School in Newtown, Castletroy, County Limerick, Ireland. It was founded in 2000.[1] It has over 1,200 students.[citation needed][4]
The school's girls basketball team have won the Senior Munster Cup final four times in a row and the senior all Ireland three times in a row. The school's girls' soccer team have been in more than 6 All-Ireland finals, winning more than half of them. A number of players from the school have also played at provincial and county level.[citation needed]
In March 2008, Castletroy won both Munster Schools rugby premier competitions, the Munster Schools Junior Cup and the Munster Schools Senior Cup.[5] Limerick hurler Paudie Fitzmaurice is a former teacher at the school. Competitive swimmer, Gráinne Murphy also attended the college.[citation needed]
In 2004, Castletroy pupils Aisling O'Brien and Naomi Guerin won the regional "Young Chef of the year" awards. In the same year, Patrick Collison, a student of the school, won second prize at the EsatBT Young Scientist of the Year Awards. Patrick and his brother John Collison are now billionaire entrepreneurs.[6]
Another student, Galin Ganchev, won twice the Irish Maths Olympiad and the Fergus Gaines Cup (2006 & 2008), got silver medals at the 5th European Union Science Olympiad (2007) and the Irish EU Science Olympiad (2007),[7] a silver medal at the Balkan Maths Olympiad (2008),[8] and was a co-winner of the PRISM Irish National Maths Contest (2007). Subsequently he went to Cambridge University to study Mathematics.
In December 2010, a Leaving Certificate student Aislinn Hayes was awarded a medal from the Institute of Physics for coming joint first in the Physics 2010 examination.[9]