Archive for March, 2010
DCS School Tour 2010
This year Douglas Community School travelled to Jasna in Slovakia for a week of skiing during the February mid term break. Forty students were accompanied by Mr O Leary, Mr Fahy, Mr O Cuanachain and Mr Hickey. The skiing was enjoyed by all. Most of the first-time skiers came down a black slope by the end of the week, which was a [...]
Mixed Success for DCS Athletes at CIT
Douglas Community School athletes had an up and down day at the All-Ireland Schools Cross-Country Championships held at Cork Institute of Technology. The team won the silver medals in the u17 race and were joint third in the u20 race, losing out on the bronze medals on countback. The course was flat and firm with ideal weather conditions. [...]
DCS Athletes best in Munster!
Douglas Community School athletes continued their outstanding Cross-Country season with some great individual and team performances at the Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships at Cork IT recently. The course proved to be a big hit with the athletes with plenty of fast running. First into action were the minor boys over 2000m where the DCS [...]
Students Open DCS School Bank
Six fifth year students have recently opened a school bank. The bank will be run by Jack Newton (Manager), Nikesh Chopra (assistant Manager), Conor Dowling (Auditor), Aidan Heffernan (Marketing), Gary Black (Teller) and Aaron Hurley (Teller) and is co-ordinated by Mr Alan White. The bank will be open every Friday from 1.00 - 1.30pm. Since [...]
Innovation Award for DCS Past Pupil
Douglas Community School past pupil Kieran O'Callaghan, who did his Leaving Certificate in DCS in 2003, graduated in Mechanical Engineering from CIT. As part of VisionRE of the Cork Institute of Technology, Kieran has won the Cruikshank Most Technically Innovative Project first place award in the Enterprise Ireland/Invest Northern Ireland Young [...]
