Coláiste Chríost Rí won the Best All-Round school at the Minster Cross Country Championships last weekend. It was last won by CCR in 1988. Well done to all the athletes and coaches.

Coláiste Chríost Rí Under-16 Basketball team make the journey to Connacht this weekend for the 1/4 Final of the All-Ireland Basketball competition. The event takes place in athenry CO. Galway. Come-on Turner's.

Ireland has six world champions at athletics, a significant number for such a small nations out of the world’s population 7 billion. Even more significant is the fact that 2 of those are past students of Coláiste Chriost Rí in Cork. This week Robert Heffernan, the current World Champion at the 50k walk paid a return visit to his alma mater and received an overwhelming reception from a gathering of over 800 in the school’s state-of-the-art sport hall.

We've done it again!

CCRí students are the best at Maths in Ireland. Our team of Kyle Malone, Paul Ryan, Cathal Hourihan and Chris Mintern beat 15 other teams who had qualified through regional qualifiers to win the George Boole Cup. The final was held at the University of Limerick last weekend. The win is the latest in a series of successes for the Cork school. Congratulations to maths teachers Dave Mahony and Susan O' Connell.

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 Celebrity chef Neven Maguire wil host a cookery demonstration for CCRí on Wednesday April 25th 2012 at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork. Ticket are €20 with the proceeds going to the school's Horticulture project. Secure your seat now!   Phone: 021-4274904

 

 What a month! Críost Rí teams have won the All-Ireland Science Quiz, the Team Math competition and the UCC Electronic Engineering Quiz. It was the third year in a row that the Capwell students won the latter. In addition Liam Hurley, a 5th Year student has qualified for the Rotary All-Irelad Young Chef competition.

On the sports field CCRí has won the best all-round team in the Munster Atheltics competition. They will now go forward to the All-Ireland. 

Coláiste Chríost Rí has done it again! In the 2011 leaving Certificate one of its 6th Year students, Stephen O' Brien, score 8 A1s. Only 10 students out of 58,000 in Ireland achieved the same feat. Stephen featured in all the national newspapers and also appeared on television. Well done to Stephen and his excellent teachers.

Overall the Críost Rí result were very impressive with school scoring well above the National average. 

 While our athletes were dominating the south Munster Track and Field championships, our senior students came out best in the annual Pfizer Chemistry quiz. Well done to all.

Congratulations to our Track and Field athletes who won the 'Best All-round School' at the South Munster Championships this week. CCR had the best Junior and best Intermediate teams and this coupled to other good results meant , once again, CCR were the best team of the championships.

 Yes. CCRí has done it. Our senior footballers are Munster Champions having beaten Pobail Scoil an Daingean by 1-12 to 1-7 in KIllarney.

The semi-final of the All-Ireland is scheduled to take place on Saturday 26th March against the Connaught champions.