St. Mac Dara's Community College

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St. Mac Dara's Community College(Irish:Coláiste Pobail Mhic Dara Naofa) is a co-ed school situated on Wellington Lane, Orwell, Templeogue in South Dublin. It is restricted to secondary level education and accommodates both Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate students and is a non-fee paying school. It has a Transition Year programme which usually restricted to one class, with a maximum of thirty students per year, though there have been two classes of up to thirty students each when required. The school also has a lot of sports and extra curricular activities for it's students to choose from including gaelic football, hurling, soccer, rugby, basketball, golf and canoeing.

1 School Trips
2 New Management
3 Facilities
4 involvment in hollywood movie
5 Headline text
6 Stabbing Incident

[edit] School Trips

The school regularly hosts trips and foreign exchange programmes to different countries. Past trips have included Honduras/Nicaragua, France, Scotland, Germany, Italy(skiing), Spain, and for the first time in the school's history, they will be hosting 2 skiing trips to Sweden. One of these trips will take place during February, while the other in March, both accommodating for 40 students each. The February trip was ledge!!

[edit] New Management

Mr S. Ryan (former vice-principal) became Principal in September 2006, after Mr S. Mc Philips retired after 24 years (1982-2006)

[edit] Facilities

St Mac Dara's enjoys numerous facilities such as 5 Science Labs (1 which has been newly refurbished), over 40 Different Classrooms, 3 Home-Economics Rooms with essential Appliances, 2 woodwork and also 2 engineering rooms, 1 Computer Room and 2 Technical Graphics Room. St Mac Dara's recently constructed a separate P.E Hall on the school grounds which comes with shower room and a full Gym.

[edit] involvment in hollywood movie

In october 2007 theschool was chosen from hundreds in the area to be used to shoot an importatnt scene in the main stream movie `BOG BODY``! THE film which sees `TITANIC` stars face a 2000 year old mummy used room p4 as a college labarotry!! over 30 students ( all 4th and 5th years) were used in this scene!!

[edit] Headline text

One of St. Mac Dara's Art rooms

[edit] Stabbing Incident

On the 9th of February the school hit Irish Newspaper headlines over a stabbing incident which took place within the school in which a 16 year old boy stabbed a fellow student (aged 17) in the chest and in the stomach. It is not believed that the stabbing was bullying-related. (headline link forthcoming)