Adamstown Community College
18 results

Keeping it sweet – the diabetics aiming for a sporting high
- Fitness
- June 7, 2017, 06:00
Elite sports performance isn’t typically associated with a condition that can more than double a person’s risk of early death. According to the World(...)

Britain doesn’t want to fall out with Ireland over Brexit. To this end a special delivery arrived in Áras an Uachtaráin from across the water. There(...)

BT Young Scientist exhibition: Special awards
- Science
- January 13, 2017, 23:10
A number of special awards were announced at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition on Friday. Science for Development Award (Worldwise glo(...)

Much elation and a little uncertainty for our Adamstown diarists
- Education
- August 16, 2015, 00:00
Des Newton had a tricky task. Last week, the principal of Adamstown Community College greeted the school’s first-ever Leaving Cert students to hand(...)

The pressure was on for the students of Adamstown Community College - the first ever class at the school to sit the Leaving Cert - as they picked up t(...)

Leaving Cert diary: Art college, and freedom, beckons
- Education
- June 11, 2015, 01:00
My whole year has been framed by one result. That result is not my Leaving Cert result. It’s the result of a drawing test I did for the Institute of A(...)

Leaving Cert history: Treaty no-show a surprise
- Education
- June 10, 2015, 17:00
While the Eucharistic Congress made an appearance instead of an anticipated question on the Treaty, higher level Leaving Cert history students woul(...)

Junior Cert French and history: Quirks and curveballs
- Education
- June 10, 2015, 16:00
Whoever set this year’s Junior Cert higher-level French paper must have been in a good mood, judging by the general reaction to the paper. Many of t(...)

Leaving Cert student diary: Evelina Siaulyte
- Education
- June 9, 2015, 20:00
I’ve been sitting my exams for five months, with a new exam every day. Okay, alright. It’s been five days. But it really does feel like it’s been so (...)

Student diary, Henry Kareem: ‘People laughed with happiness’
- Education
- June 8, 2015, 20:00
After last Friday’s ordinary level maths paper, I was devastated. The whole class was devastated. A lot of my classmates just left the questions blank(...)