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 strong St Minchin’s on Tuesday th 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.