Monday 26th August

Monday 26th August 2019 – Form 4 Presentation on Transition Year for Parents/Guardians/Agentsonly, in the Swift Building commencing at 7:30 p.m. Form 4 boarding students return to settle into their dormitories from 7:30 p.m. (no earlier) read more

Introduction to TY 2019/20 Kilkenny College is fully committed to the Transition Year Programme. We believe it is an initiative that allows students the time and space to develop and mature without the pressure of examinations. Past years have demonstrated how confidence and self esteem are acquired while students develop… read more

Nvidia Graphics Card Review

Nvidia has announced its new flagship cards to release on September 17th 2020. There will be three cards coming out: · RTX 3090 at £1,499.99 · RTX 3080 at £649.00 · RTX 3070 at £469.00 These cards are built using the new Ampere architecture versus the old Turing architecture that… read more

South Africa RWC Winners

South Africa have played at 7 of the 9 Rugby World Cup tournaments, having been unable to compete in the first two tournaments due to a sports boycott. Following the end of the boycott, they hosted the 1995 Rugby World Cup and won the tournament, they were champions again at the 2007 tournament in France. The Springboks then… read more

Achill Trip by Ross Geoghegan

On Friday the 11th of September 30 TY students including myself embarked on a long bus journey up to the county of Mayo. We were told we could never trust the weather in Achill as most of the time it could be just wet and windy. The teachers coming along on the trip… read more

Ireland v. New Zealand

Ireland faced down the haka and simultaneously paid tribute to the late Anthony Foley that night, by forming a figure of eight before kick off.  Ireland have only beaten New Zealand twice in 31 matches, since they first met in 1905. Ireland beat the All Blacks in the United States in 2018. This match ended New Zealands 18 match win streak  Ireland… read more

GPS in Farming

The GPS was fitted to the tractor, John Deere were the first to have the GPS. Their GPS is Firestar 3000, it is a yellow dome located on the front of the roof of the cab. It is a option when buying the tractor. Other manufactures like Fendt, Case, New… read more