Cistercian College

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The taxpayer subsidised private schools by more than €100 million this year. Photograph: David Jones/PA Wire
Private schools receive €100m in public funding

The taxpayer subsidised private schools by more than €100 million this year, according to official figures. The vast bulk went on salaries for teache(...)

Hungarian mathematician and physicist Cornelius Lanczos came to Dublin in 1954 and stayed until the end of the 1960s. He once saw fit to correct The Irishman’s Diary on a point of fact. And perhaps more remarkably, he was wrong.
Four-Dimensional Green Fields – Frank McNally on unified field theory, de Valera’s Ireland, and a new GAA club in Belfast

Most people know about Erwin Schrodinger, the great Austrian physicist who spent the 1940s and later working at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Stud(...)

St Columba’s College in Dublin is the most expensive private school, with charges of €8,654 for day pupils and €23,952 a year for boarders. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Fees for private schools jump as enrolments return to boom-time high

Rising demand for private school places has seen fees increase significantly this year, latest figures show. Two out of three private schools in the (...)

Alexandra College Milltown, Co Dublin, charges €7,534 per year in day fees. File photograph: Cyril Byrne
Rising fees lead many to question value of private education

Not so long ago many private schools were struggling to retain pupils and contemplating entering the “free” secondary school scheme. How times have c(...)

Nicole Dickerson, a sixth-year boarding student at St Columba’s in Dublin. “There is a great support system here because we are surrounded by friends,” she says. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
Boarding schools bounce back

Not so long ago, things were looking bleak for boarding schools: student numbers were falling, Government funding for private education was being cut (...)

Cistercian College has among its alumni former taoiseach Brian Cowen and his brother Barry Cowen TD. Photograph: Courtesy of Wikipedia
Parents and past-pupils secure future of Cistercian College

Cistercian College in Roscrea is to remain open against the odds after the trustees of the historic boarding school voted in favour of a rescue packag(...)

Cistercian College is just one of two remaining boys’ boarding-only schools in the country. Photograph: Courtesy of Wikipedia
Cistercian College Roscrea boys’ boarding school to close

One of Ireland’s best known boarding schools, Cistercian College Roscrea, is set to close after 112 years due to a significant fall off in student num(...)

Overall BT Young Scientist & Technologist of the Year 2017 Shane Curran from Terenure College. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
BT Young Scientist exhibition: Highly commended projects

The following projects at the 2016 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition have been described as highly commended. Biological and Ecological J(...)

Debating and music are popular but the school is best known for rugby.
Profile: Cistercian College, Roscrea, Tipperary

Vital stats: All boys, fee-paying, Catholic. Number of Students: 175. Website: www.ccr.ie. Cistercian College, in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, saw admis(...)

Roscrea’s Alan Tynan. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
Defending champions Roscrea too strong for plucky Kilkenny
  • Rugby
  • January 28, 2016, 00:49

Cistercian Roscrea 22 Kilkenny College 6 Reigning champions Cistercian Roscrea could call upon seven of the team that claimed the historic victory (...)

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