‘News’ Archives
Cork County Junior (u20) Cross-Country Championships
Douglas athletes were to the fore at the recent Cork County Junior (u20) Cross-Country Championships in Carrignavar. The team was led home by Richard Quirke in 7th place, continuing his very impressive form this season. Other team members to run well were Eric Murphy, Matthew Murphy, John Kidney and Craig Harrington. The team dominated the [...]
Young Scientist Sponsorship
At the end of the last school year Mr Cian O'Mahony sought sponsorship from industry to help promote the sciences in *Douglas Community School*. Amongst those companies who have made donations to date are Minteq Europe Ltd, Mineral Technologies GN Resound Horner APG Bourns Electronics GE Healthcare Pfizer Ireland [...]
The Young Scientist
This year there are twenty seven students involved in the young scientist award in the school. There are nine teams of three. Douglas Community School has been involved in the competition since the 1970's. In 1991 Douglas had a winner Mark Andrews. In recent years we have had a number of category award winners. Half the students entered get to [...]
P.R. Team
There are four members on the debating team with one sub. These members are Rory Murphy, Aidan Murphy, Fabien Dubois, and team captain Andrew O'Reilly. There is one sub called Daniel O' Sullivan. Their next debate is on Tuesday the fourteenth of November at eight p.m in our own school. The topics upon which they deal with are the United Nations, [...]
U18 Douglas v. Nagle
Douglas Community School 2 Nagle 4 Douglas started the match badly and were two nil down midway through the first half. Mr O’Leary who had started the game with one up front made some tactical switches at this point. Matthew Murphy came on for James Archer and Douglas went with two up front. The tactical switches had an immediate effect [...]
