As soon as it happens, it's here!

5 February 2003
A big win for the Senior Gaelic football squad at Ovens, where they defeated Coláiste Choilm by 1-11 to 0-8 to win through to the semi-final of the Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC). This leaves them as the only Cork school in the last four of this prestigious competition and they now face Tralee CBS in the semi-final.

29 January 2003
The U-16 soccer team beat Nagle Community College by 3 goals to 2 in the school grounds.

27 January 2003
Two winners in the Peace Competitions run by Cecil Hurwitz. Conor McCarthy won a prize in the Peace Slogan competition and Kevin Moore (class NB1) who won the Junior section of the Peace Essay competition.

25 January 2003
Mark Hanrahan went to Belfast to represent Ireland in the Celtic International Cross-Country Championships, contested by Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland. Mark won the gold medal in the Junior Mens category, over 7 km, with a winning margin of 37 seconds.

 

23 January 2003
Back to the soccer season - the U-18 team defeated Coláiste Spioraid Naoimh of Bishopstown, in the Cork County Cup quarter-final on a scoreline of two goals to nil.

18 December 2003
A big win today, and a historic one also, when the U-18 hurling team won, for the first time, the O'Callaghan Cup, Cork Colleges Senior A Hurling Championship. At Páirc Uí Rinn, against favourites St Colman's Fermoy, the 1-10 to 1-9 scoreline was an accurate reflection of the thrilling encounter.

11 December 2003
The U-18 hurling team won their semi-final match in the O'Callaghan Cup, Cork Colleges Senior A Hurling, today when they beat Farranferris College with a goal in the last minute from Fintan O'Leary.

29 November 2002
In the final game of their qualifying group the U-19 basketball team won by 42 pts to 22 pts against Glanmire Community College in the DCS Sportshall. They now go on to the quarter-final of the Cork Schools Cup.

27 November 2002
The school made an historic breakthrough into the quarter-final stage of the Corn Uí Mhuirí Munster Colleges Senior Football Championship, by drawing their game against St Colman's, Fermoy, at St Vincent's grounds, thereby ensuring automatic qualification from their group.

26 November 2002
In the second round of the All-Ireland German Debating Competition the school's team of Paul Budds (Captain), Paul Durcan, Peter O'Driscoll and Kevin Murphy won against Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown.

20 November 2002
In the quarter-final of the U-18 Munster Championship played at Patrickswell, Co Limerick, the hurling squad had a good win against Nenagh, winning by 1-10 to 2-5.

13 November 2002
Final day of the group matches for the U-15 soccer squad's Munster Cup elimination round, Douglas winning the group on 7 points, beating Carrigaline CS and Blarney and playing out a drawn game against St Peter's of Passage.

12 November 2002
The U-18 soccer Munster Cup first round was won by the by DCS on a 3-0 scoreline against Presentation College, Gary Drennan hitting a wonder volley from 35 yards and Gavin Draper getting two more.

5 November 2002
Another good win for the U-19 basketball team, this time by 54 points to 24 points, over Fermoy.

25 October 2002
The U-19 basketball team had an excellent win in their home match against Coláiste an Spioraid Naomh, winning 55 points to 32 points.

18 October 2002
In the second round of the Munster Colleges Championship the U-16 hurling team had a 1-16 to 2-5 win at Ballyagran, near Charleville, over Tulla CBS.

The proud record of the school in the All-Ireland German Debate competition was maintained when the first round of this year's competition was won, against Christ King School, by our team of Paul Durcan, Peter O'Driscoll and Kevin Murphy.

16 October 2002
Old rivals Coláiste an Spioraid Naomh of Bishopstown were defeated on a 3-2 scoreline in the preliminary round of the U-17 soccer Munster Cup at the school grounds.

The U-18 hurling team went to Ballylanders, Co Limerick to take on Ard Scoil Rís of Limerick in the first round of the Munster Championship and had an easy win, scoring 6-9 to 0-4.

11 October 2002
A big home win for the U-13 soccer team in the first round of the Munster Cup, defeating Nagle Community College by seven goals.

9 October 2002
DCS had a great win in the first game at the top level of Gaelic football following last year's promotion, beating the one-time kingpins of the Corn Uí Mhuirí, St Brendans Killarney, in the first round of the competition at Macroom. This is the Munster Colleges Senior Football Championship and DCS won by 0-12 to 0-9.

1 October 2002
The Lord Mayor of Cork Councillor John Kelleher continued a long tradition, going back to the 1920's, when he visited the school and addressed an assembly of students.

25 September 2002
The under-16 hurling team defeated Glanmire Community School in the first round of the Munster Championship in the school grounds, notching up a score of 2-12 to 2-6.

17 September 2002
The under-18 hurling team made their debut in the A grade of the Cork Colleges competition in Youghal today. They recorded a win in their Dr O'Callaghan Cup first round match against the local Youghal CBS side, on a 5-9 to 4-7 scoreline.

29 August 2002
Classes resume after the Summer holidays.

 

Gradam Awards for the Year 2001-02

SPORTS AWARDS

HURLING
Patrick Carroll NL3, Stephen Moylan NS3, Alan Barry 4.4, Fintan O'Leary, Killian Murphy, Conor Alcock, Mark Harrington

GAELIC FOOTBALL
Stephen Bermingham, Eoin Cadogan, Stephen O'Connor

SOCCER
Eoin Brickley, Gary Wills, Patrick Carroll, Patrick McCarthy

FOOTBALL
Barry Hanrahan, Seamus O'Donoghue

PITCH & PUTT TEAM
William McCarthy, Aaron O"Callaghan, David Keany, Michael Quirke and Patrick Noonan.

GOLF
Aaron O'Callaghan

BASKETBALL
Brian O'Callaghan, Kevin Hassett

SWIMMING
Chris Kelleher, Paul Kelly

BADMINTON
Jonathan O'Connell

ATHLETICS
Brian Collins, Mark Hanrahan

FIRST YEAR ENDEAVOUR

Kevin Murphy

TRANSITION YEAR AWARDS

Darragh Gosnell, Feidhlim O'Neill, David O'Connor, Darran Donovan

JUNIOR GRADAM

Peter McCarthy NC2, Barry Hodnett NC2, Pat Carroll NL2, Colin Murphy NK3, Cian Boland NM3, Eoin O'Sullivan NM3, Kevin Casey NN3, Stephen McCarthy NN3, Anthony Whelan NM3

 

STUDENT'S STUDENT OF THE YEAR

Brian Quilligan

SENIOR GRADAM

Peter MacDonald, Fergal O'Sullivan

Also nominated: Richard O'Leary, Peter O'Driscoll, Jonathan Frankham, Michael Waldron, Mark O'Sullivan, Patrick White, Paul Kelly

Principal's Award

Seamus O'Donoghue

First Year Endeavour

Sean Weir NE1, Kevin Murphy NE1, Robert McCarthy NA1, John McNamara NE2 (Hockey), Christopher Quilligan NP2, Barry Hayes NS2

 

The events of the 2001-2002 school year