Douglas Community School Student John McNamara pictured receiving a University College Cork Entrance Scholarship from the President of UCC Professor Michael Murphy. John scored 600 points in his Leaving certificate and is studying medicine at UCC.

Douglas Community School is the only school in the Douglas-Rochestown area to win University Scholarships in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Douglas Community School students have a long history of winning university scholarships. In the past ten years our students have won numerous entrance scholarships to UCC as well as scholarships to Trinity College Dublin, Cambridge University and many universities in the United States.

In another outstanding achievement Douglas student Brian Murray achieved top marks in his Junior Certificate 2007 with 12 A grades in higher-level papers. Brian is a member of the highly successful school athletics team and is a member of the Cork Youth Orchestra and the Irish Youth Orchestra.

The Douglas Community School public speaking team won the county final at the Silver springs hotel. They defeated Boherbue Comprehensive College and Mount St. Michael Roscarbery.
This was the third time the school has won this competition. Douglas Community School is proud to be the only school to hold this many tiltles.

The winning team:

As you can see from the picture, drama is a very important element in our Transition Year Programme in Douglas Community School. There are more than 100 students involved in this years production of Snow White and the Eleven Dwarfs. We even had to add a few extra Dwarfs!

Douglas Community School athletes traveled to Dublin for the annual Dublin City University Schools invitational cross-country event on Wednesday 16^th January. The athletes had a great day in the capital with some outstanding performances. The course was flat and fast with some mucky patches to help slow things down.

First into action were the minor boys team competing over the 1500m distance. All these guys are new to running and performed admirably finishing 7^th team. Gary McCarthy again led the team home with a great 23^rd place finish. With about 200 athletes in the race this was a fine performance. John Durcan, Billy Murphy, Eoin Bourke, Cillian Crowley and Michael McGuinness completed the team scoring.

The junior boys race was held over 2,500m and again Douglas athletes were to the fore. Conor Foley continued his rich vein of form with a superb 18^th place finish and he was followed home closely by James Kelleher 19^th, Emmett Bracken 23^rd and Ian Tobin 25^th. This was a super team performance with 6 athletes in the top 30 and resulted in the team finishing 2^nd behind a superb St Colmans team from the north of Ireland, containing the talented Monaghan twins. This team has really gelled and Mark Seacy has done a great job in his role as captain. Watch out for these guys in the coming weeks.

The inter boys team have also come together strongly as a group and this was portrayed with a super team win, defeating the mighty St Malachys college Belfast in the process. The outstanding Peter Hanrahan in 8th place led the team home again. Patrick Coleman also battled hard throughout and was rewarded with a super 10^th place finish. Brian Murray and Mark Tobin (who lost both spikes during the race) had great runs and completed the scoring finishing 14^th and 15^th respectively. This result was all the more impressive because the team’s number one athlete Adam Kelleher missed the race. All the team are fully focused on the All-Ireland Schools championships on March 8^th and are hoping to produce their best form on the day.

The senior boys team were without the services of Craig Murphy and two other team members, but battled well to a 6^th place finish. Richard Quirke produced his best race of the new year with a superb 17^th place and he was followed closely by David O’ Keeffe 20^th, Craig Harrington 33^rd, Alan O’ Brien 38^th and Alex Kelly 42^nd. All in all some superb performances from the athletes and they now look forward to the South Munster Schools Cross-Country championships on Friday 25^th January in Midleton CBS.

Snow White

This year’s production is Snow White. We are hoping it will be as successful as in previous years. This years drama is similar to the modern fairytale but with a D.C.S twist! Both staff and students have worked hard on this drama.

We are hoping that you can come and enjoy this magical experience!

Tickets are on sale in the school office for the three nights, January 30th,31th and February1st

Special Thanks

Douglas Community School would like to thank the local primary schools for their co-operation and interest in this years school show.

* St. Columba’s Boys N.S.
* St Anthony’s N.S
* Scoil Nioclais
* Scoil Barra Buachailli Beaumont
* Scoil Realt Na Maidine