26th September 2012

The Crescent Express TY Production

First Years Trip To Petersburg!

On Monday 17th September the First years Each room is packed with beds which feature of the trip and is always great fun. went to Petersburg Outdoor Centre, make the night much more enjoyable. The first years were accompanied by the year Co.Galway. The Centre is located outside During the day the students do a range heads Mrs. O’Brien and Mrs. O’Donoghue. The the rural village of Clonbur and is about an of different activities with instructors form tutors of each class were also with the hour away from Galway City. Classes guiding them. students at the centre. Lainez, Lewis, and Lugo left the school The Centre mainly does outdoor activi- early on Monday morning and returned on Harry Wallis and Eoin Mc Donnell. ties. The students will do a mix of land Wednesday. While these classes were and water activities. They were put in preparing to go home the students of to groups to do the activities. The land Lalemant and Loyola were just arriving for activities included hillwalking, orient- their stay at Petersburg. eering, rock-climbing, abseiling and Every year the school organises a trip to obstacle course. The water based activ- Petersburg Outdoor Centre for the first ities are kayaking, canoeing, wind surf- years so they can to get know other stu- ing. More examples of water activities dents in their year and their classes. The are, raft-building, gorge walking and students stay at the centre for two nights. caving. At night there was games and The rooms are set up so that you can talk events. One of the main night activities and communicate with the class mates. was Miss. Petersburg which is a regular

The hockey blitz for 1st year teams from all different schools around Limerick. It take place in crescent again as it has done for many years. It took place on the 26th of September with three divisions and a number of teams in each one. Fourth year class Meyer and Field help with the event. The range of jobs they did was managing and coaching teams and helping with the running of the event itself. The Crescent Express Page 2

Crescent Begin Defence of Bowen Shield!

Bowen shield rugby started back game was lost 19-10 with tries from training four weeks ago as they Andrew Harrison and Sean Naughton. had to face an unexpectedly After this defeat the training sessions Wednesday (H) Christians th strong St Minchin’s on Tuesday have become much tougher and every- 19 brothers th the 11 of September in their first one is getting use to the playing again College friendly game before first round and the fitness has stepped up also. This (September) game against CBC on Wednesday is due to the number of games coming Wednesday (H) Rockwell college th th the 19 of September. As it was up and how close games are to each 26 the first game for the schools other. It will be a tough season but Bowen Shield team there were Crescent should do very well in it. (September) still some cob-webs left after the Wednesday (A) Presentation th summer. It was most of the play- By Andrew Harrison and 10 brothers (October) College ers first time picking up a rugby Jack Harrington ball in months. The game wasn’t Wednesday (H) Ardscoil Ris th the most exciting game as there 17 were many un-forced errors due (October) Wednesday (A) Glenstal Abbey to the lack of play and lack of th training. The Crescent team didn’t 24 School (October) play as well as they have done in Wednesday (A) St Clements Col- the past but still put up some th 7 lege competition for Minchin’s. The (November)

Katie Taylor is the best female called the event "a momentous day Katie's strong performance in this boxer in Bray, co. Wicklow, Ire- for Irish boxing." boxing tournament also earned her the Best Boxer of the Tournament land. Katie came back to the National Sta- award. Katie first started Irish boxing dium on 1 March 2002 and she fought history when she was 15 on Oc- Candy Berry who is from England at By Tony O Donnell tober 31 2001 in the first official 57 kg as part of a show that featured women's bout ever held in Ire- an Ireland vs. Canada senior men's land. Katie fought 16-year-old boxing tournament. Katie won this Alana Audley (now Alanna Mur- match by RSC (referee stops con- phy) in Belfast at the National test). Stadium in Dublin in the first of Katie won the boxing match in the 60 three female contests on a -kg division of the international Nor- sixteen-bout amateur card. way Box Cup in Oslo, Norway from 9- Taylor won at the three 90- 11 January 2004, defeating Ingrid second rounds by 23-12. Irish Egner of Norway by 36-20 in the Amateur Boxing Association semi-final and Josefina Tengroth of President Dominic O'Rourke Sweden by RSCO-2 in the final. The Crescent Express Page 3

The X Factor UK!

With exciting auditions drawn to a phone call from Simon we now know close and boot camp just finished what judges mentor the different cate- we now have twenty four hopefuls gories. Nicole has the boys, Tulisa has left, each one of them fighting to the girls, Louis has the groups in Los get through to the live shows. Vegas and Gary has the over twenty Gary, Tulisa, Nicole and Louis eights. Guest judges include Cheryl watched the contestants battle it Cole, Sharon Osburne, Neyo and Tine out in boot camp and then made Tempah. the massive decision of who goes through to judges homes. After debating the categories. Only 6 remain in each. Jahmene Douglas , James Arthur and Ella Henderson are among the lucky 24 who get the opportunity to show what they have got in judges houses. After a

Thirds Years Visit The Dail and National Museum ! On Tuesday 2nd of October third Students got to sit in and view a ques- ate they met Mr Michael Noonan Minister year group Bobola went on a class tions and answers session taking place for Finance who always has time for a visit to Dail Eireann and the Na- in the chamber discussing the economy; group from Crescent College. this was chaired by Minister for Enter- tional Museum in Dublin. Later on (no trip is complete without time prise/Jobs and Innovation Mr Richard In the National Museum they had for shopping too) the students visited Bruton and was a very topical issue for an organised guided tour of the Dundrum shopping Centre and bought many of the students. ten most popular items in the important designer goods. collection, including artefacts After a brief history of the house and its Thanks to A O Donoghue and J Fitzgerald from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, treasures and a short visit to the Sen- for a great day! and Christian periods.

Items such as the beautiful golden Lunulae, Torcs and Gorgets,The Ardagh Chalice and the Tara Brooch as well as an impressive display of ‘Bogmen’ skeletons re- covered from the land. This was an important part of their History course. After this the students went to Leinster House as part of their C.S.P.E. class assignment, here they got to see the day to day workings of the Dail chamber and the Senate in operation. The Crescent Express Page 4

Successful School Swimmers!

The swimming in Crescent Col- lin .Unfortunately no medals were The events that people may take lege Comprehensive has been won at this competition but both part in are as follows: Men’s 100m taken part for the last few swimmers setting personal bests in Butterfly ,100 Back crawl ,100m years .In the 2011/2012 school the events they swam in, previously Breast stroke ,100m Freestyle and year , six Crescent swimmers at the Munster Championships . the 200m Individual Med- took part in the Senior Schools ley ,consisting of a 50m butterfly, Munster Championships in the 50m back University of Limerick .These crawl, 50m swimmers were Ronan Beat- breaststroke ty ,Niall Keating ,Rachel Costel- and a 50m loe , Ciara Joy ,Meadhbh Noonan freestyle one after and Stephen O’Brien .At this another .The event the swimmers came home woman’s with two gold medals in the events are men’s 100 butterfly and 100 back also the crawl from Ronan Beatty and a same .There silver medal in the woman’s 100 There was another Senior Schools is also the option of schools putting back crawl from Rachel Costel- th competition held on the 7 of Octo- forward a relay team in either the loe . Following this gala Ronan ber 2012 in the University of Limer- 4x50m Freestyle or the 4x50m Indi- and Rachel continued on to com- ick once again .I would think that vidual medley in both men’s and pete in the Senior Schools Na- there will be another group of Cres- woman’s events. tional Championships in ALSA cent swimmers willing to participate swimming pool in Dub- in this great sporting opportunity. By Ronan Beatty.

Ty Students to Raise Important funds for Charities!

Some of the boys from transition The girls of transition year on Sun- year will climb Irelands highest peak day 13th October will do the women’s on Monday 15th October. They will be mini marathon in UL. They will run climbing the mountain in aid of the and walk 8km in aid a St Gabriels charity Concern. Concern Worldwide school, Dooradoyle. is a charity that works with the world's poorest people. The mountains peak is at 1,038 m (3,406 ft). The mountain is located in the Macgillycuddy Reeks mountain range near the town of Kilgorlin in Co. Kerry. The Crescent Express Page 5

Briant Class Go to Dublin Zoo! Written , edited and produced by: On October 5th Third Year panzees and a Polar Bear that was De Chardin 2012 class Briant went to Dublin abandoned by his mother. They Journalists: Zoo for C.S.P.E. (civic social were told that on chimpanzee is as O.Barrett B.Mc Donagh political education) action R.Beatty S.Maher. strong as six men.They are high- C.Coffey E.Mc Donnell project. The went to the zoo lighting animal welfare for their D.Curley K.Mc Grath L.Deignan C.Meehan for their action project. The project that makes up a major part A.Dinnen C.Monaghan class learned about chim- of their grade for the C.S.P.E. exam. J.Harrington L.O’Connor A.Harrisom T.O’Donnell L.hennessy A.O’Halloran D.Hickey N.Power C>Joy E.Sargent A.Kenndy H.Wallis

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Ty Work Experience! This year for fourth year students , different types of jobs that they may classes in the art college , cookery their work experience is different. be interested in. Some people will classes and many more different This year is the first ever year that break their work experience in half options. Students have completed 5 this has been done and it is still not or others will go to a couple of dif- days of their work experience so known which way works better for ferent places during the year . far. students. As apposed to having 3 straight weeks of work experience , Due to the amount of people trying By Clodagh Coffey to get work it wasn't easy for some fourth years have a four day week and have work experience on ei- people to find places for them to go ther Thursday or Friday depending every week for the whole year. To on the class they are in. try and fix this problem , parents got together to try and come up Students were advised to work at with activities for students to do different places throughout the every week . These activities in- year , to make the most of the time clude golf in Limerick golf club, art they had and to learn more about The Crescent Express Page 6

Irish Paralympians Do Extremely Well at London 2012!

Athletes Jason Smyth and Mi- show that if you work hard and ap- win. I believe I can run quicker than chael McKillop, and swimmer ply yourself you can achieve at the that again." Darragh McDonald have won greatest level. Smyth is based in Florida and trains gold medals for Ireland at the "Coming into the championships I with US sprint champion Tyson Gay. Paralympic Games in London. knew I was under pressure to retain The Derry man only narrowly McKillop picked up the third my title so I wanted to do that first missed out on a place at this sum- gold of the day as ran away and foremost and thankfully I was mer's Olympic Games. from his rivals in the 800m T37 able to do that. Of course there was final, with a world record time the added bonus of a world record. McDonald, the 18-year-old from of 1.57.22. Gorey, has said his performance "Times at championships are irrele- showed how far Paralympics swim- Defending champion Smyth vant. It doesn't matter whether you ming has come in four years. also beat his own world record run 10.00 or 11.00 as long as you as he won the 100 metres T13 He said: "I said to myself before I in a time of 10.46. started that I was not going to think about times. That is what I did. 18-year-old McDonald powered to victory in the 400 metres McDonald won a silver medal in Bei- freestyle S6 at the Aquatic jing in 2008.McKillop is from New- Centre. townabbey in Co Antrim and suffers from cerebral palsy. Smyth said: "This just goes to By David Hickey

School Basket Ball!

The under 19s boys and next week against Croom, Munchins girls are starting training and Clements. If you would like to this Thursday after school check out the basketball notes from 4 to 5. The first years board it is in the Junior corridor training is on a Tuesday this will show you times of training again after school from and when the matches are on. 4to 5 all are welcome to By Diarmuid Curley come boys and girls. The under 19s boys have a tournament coming up Page 7

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TY Trip to the Burren!

Three groups of transition year After activities the transition years would classes went to the Burren for have lunch and dinner finished with ice two nights and three days. The cream and brownies. The bonding in the transition years stayed in The social room playing ping pong and spit the Burren Outdoor Education Cen- card game was so much fun with our two tre and took part in different class groups. The singsong at night time, activities such as Caving, Rock dancing to gangnam style and the boys Climbing, Kayaking, Raft Building and girls having sing offs with Chris Culli- and Hill Walking. Caving was the nan ending the night with Yesterday by The Beatles topped it all off. The Burren was a most popular activity within the great trip that all the transition years will transition years. We went to two remember. different caves not just did the transition years have fun during By Nicole Power their time in the caves but on the way to the caves. The sing song on the 40 minute bus jour- ney, falling knee deep into muck and getting soaked under water- falls but all in all it was a great activity.