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Burren Trip
RECENTLY twenty five fourth year students from Kilkenny College went on a Potholing trip to the Burren Outdoor Education Centre in Co. Clare. Up first was the rock climbing, which both student and teachers excelled at, followed by Kayaking in a small river near the centre and caving on the last day.
The caving was the main attraction of the trip, with the students going through the main passage of the caves, which had numerous smaller passages that were deemed too dangerous for the novice cavers. “Even though we went through the main passage, we still had to do a lot of crawling for it” says Michael Hennessy who is one of the students, “At one point, we had to turn the lights out and guide ourselves by feeling the walls of the cave, you also had to get directions from the person in front of you”. The students had to wear equipment supplied by the centre, the equipment consisted of a helmet with a head torch, a plastic jumpsuit which was worn over the students own clothes due to the coldness of the caves.
Sarah Cooks Up A Storm At Faillte Ireland
Kilkenny College student and budding young chef Sarah Watchorn recently qualified for the All Ireland Final of the Rotary Cookery competition in the U19 category, which was held in Failte Ireland, Dublin on 27th February.
To enter, Sarah had to submit her menu for judging, her menu consisted of sweet chilli pears with feta cheese, along with mouth watering chicken topped with tomato pesto, philadelphia and blackforest ham on a bed of lemon and thyme, infused butternut squash and finished with a light dessert of upside down apple and cinnamon cake and fresh raspberries.
U14 Badminton Triumph
The A section saw favourites from Kilkenny College come out on top of a round robin group with 5 teams. Emma Duncan, Andrea Parr, Keri Willis and Tiffany Roberts proved too strong for Loreto Kilkenny, and