‘Past Pupils News’ Archives
UCC Scholarships for DCS Students
Congratulations to Douglas Community School graduates Ciarán Fleming and Brian Murray who were recently awarded UCC scholarships.
Craig Murphy runs well in Indiana
Douglas Community School past pupil Craig Murphy lined up in Terra Haute Indiana in America at the Brooks Pre National Cross-Country meet for his college Iona. The race was a dry run for the NCAA Championships which take place on the same course over 10km on 22 November. Craig finished a superb 35th covering the eight kilometre course in [...]
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 [...]
Web Design at DCS
A group of 20 Transition Year students have just started a module in Web Design in the school. Run by four past pupils who are currently in University College Cork; the Douglas Community School students are learning how to write HTML code. They will each design their own webpage with pictures, links, music and videos. Watch this space, as we hope [...]
Student Entrepreneur in World Final
DCS past pupil Kieran O'Callaghan is heading to Kansas City, Missouri, USA later in the month to compete in the final of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. He is in a short-list of just 30 finalists out of a nominated 1,500 students worldwide.
