Presentation Brothers College, Cork

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PBC Cork
Viriliter Age (Act Manly)

School type	Private
Established	1878
Principal	Michael Hennessy
Students	678
Colors	Mauve, Black and White
Location	Mardyke, Cork Ireland
Website	http://www.pbc-cork.ie/

Presentation Brothers College (Pres) is a Catholic, boys-only, fee-paying college based in Cork, Ireland. It is also known as PBC, and in Irish as Coláiste na Toirbhirte.

The college's traditional rivals are Christian Brothers College; (As the two main fee paying all-boys schools in Cork, both share similar histories, student bases, and sporting & academic traditions).

1 History
2 Curriculum
3 Extra-curricular activities and sport
4 Selected alumni
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

The college was founded by the Presentation Brothers in 1878, in the South Mall. Soon afterwards it moved to the Grand Parade and, in 1887, to the Western Road. In 1985, the college moved to a new building on the Mardyke on the site of the college's rugby facilities; the Western Road premises is now owned and used by UCC. The college has developed new rugby facilities at Dennehy's Cross.

The college is also noted for having founded SHARE, a charity for supporting the elderly.

[edit] Curriculum

The school offers both the Junior and Leaving Certificate cycles. It has been named the best boys' secondary school outside Dublin by the Irish Examiner. The current Curriculum teaches First Years Religion, Irish, English, Mathematics, Latin, French, German, Science, Business Studies, History, Geography, CSPE, SPHE, Art and Physical Education. In Second Year, the students choose to drop one of the foreign languages. Unusually for a private school, streaming is not used until Third Year.

[edit] Extra-curricular activities and sport

The college has achieved notable success in competitions in Science and Debating, having the oldest debating society in Cork. In 2004, the Pres team won the first Cork Robotics Competition for Schools, which was launched by the Cork Electronics Industry Association (CEIA) at the National Software Centre in Mahon Point. Many times winner of the national debating championship run by the universities, the Dillon Cup, The Munster Schools Debating Cup and other competitions, Pres also won the 2005 St. Aloysius College First Year competition, and came runner-up in the 2006 Cork City Schools Debating Competition (the most important junior debate competition outside Dublin). [1]

The college sport is Rugby Union. The college has won 27 Munster Schools Senior Cups and has produced 22 Irish Rugby Internationals. In 2007, the school won both the Senior Cup and the Junior Cup (the first time they had won both in the same year since 1995, when Ronan O'Gara was the Senior Captain). Four players have played for the Lions - Tom Kiernan (1962 & 1968), Jerry Walsh (1966), Michael Kiernan (1983), and Ronan O'Gara (2001 & 2005).

Other sports played at the college include basketball, cricket, GAA, rowing and soccer. The school has won the GAA Lord Mayor's Cup five times in the last six years, fielding 19 substitutes in 2006.