On Monday last, the school

was pleased to welcome back

Fine Gael TD and Minister for

Finance Michael Noonan. Mr

Noonan had been a teacher at

the school for over 18 years,

having joined the staff in 1981.

His son, John, is carrying on

the proud tradition and is also

a teacher here in Crescent.

The Ministers visit was includ-

ed in the weekly school as-

sembly, where music and

prayers were sung previous

to the Ministers speech. In his

speech, the Minister spoke

very fondly of his time teach-

ing in Crescent and also talked

about the current economic

climate, describing, in one

word, what situation the coun-

try is in ; ‘debt’. He then

turned his attention to the

positive side, explaining how

jobs in areas such as health,

agriculture, finance, IT etc. will

increase in numbers in the

coming years. He ended what

he had to say by telling the

students to follow their

dreams, not to be put off by

the recession, and that there

Running Success For The Fr.Troddyn Walk!

Old Friend Of Crescent Pays A Visit!

The students were joined

by a number of retired

teachers out in Killaloe and while it was cold, rain

held off resulting in a great time had by all! The

walk is in honour of

Fr.William Troddyn S.J., also known by his nick-

name ‘Billie’, was a much-loved and respected

teacher in Crescent be-

tween 1951 and 1983.

Fr.Troddyn was known as

The annual Fr. Troddyn walk

took place last Friday 27th

January. The walk was or-ganised by Grainne Delaney

and was in aid of St.Vincent de Paul. Two students from

every class, from first to

sixth year, participated in the walk and each member

of their form class spon-sored them €2. The bus

departed from the school

at 9am on Friday morning

and returned at 12:30pm.

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8th February 2012

will be plenty of jobs out

there. He also made eve-

ryone even happier by

giving the school a half

day!!!

Michael Noonan’s visit is

one of many VIP visits

the school has had over

the past couple of

years, adding to the

elite list which include

Father General Aldolfo

Nicholas SJ and Presi-

dent Mary McAleese,

with many more to come

no doubt!

a reasonable and pa-tient man. He is a cru-

cial part of the schools history and his work

will always be remem-

bered by students and teachers at Crescent,

especially at this time of year as the school

honours his memory

with the Fr. Troddyn Walk. For more on the

life of Fr. Troddyn, see

Ogilvie’s profile of him

a previous edition of the Crescent Ex-

press, January 26th 2012.

The total amount raised in the 2012 Fr

Troddyn walk is €1,362 and count-

ing! Congratulations to everyone who

took part in the

event.

By Adam Mc Elhinney

By Stephen Hackett.

There has been a lot of activity on the basketball scene in the school over the last few weeks. Both the boys and girls under

16 team were in the All-Ireland qualifiers. The girls event took place on the 21st of January in Galway. While the boys event was held here in the school the following day. The boys got off to a good start in their first

game winning by 20 points

against a decent team from Kilkenny. They had a two game wait until their next match and they struggled to find form in the first quarter, but they managed to pull away towards

the end of the half and had a comfortable lead of 15 points

at half time. Crescent seemed

too strong for the Belfast team in the second half and started scoring for fun. In the end a great team effort

meant Crescent only had to

win their last match to qualify for the All-Ireland semi final. They started off brilliantly again. With some good scores from everyone on the team including Mark Dillon, Cian Reale and Leo Morrison

proved too much for the side from Tuam in Galway. In the end Crescent overran the Galway team by an amazing score line of 72-10 which con-sisted of an unbelievable 30 point game by Luke Ryan. This

brilliant result meant that

Crescent will be playing in the

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National Basketball Arena in Dublin against C.B.S Clonmel on the 8th of

March. This is not the only good

result on the basketball scene recently. Both the boys and girls first year teams have been doing extremely well winning their past number of blitzes over the past couple of weeks. All of these good

results throughout the school mean that there are some prom-

ising players to come and that basketball has a bright future in the school. Well done and contin-ued success to Ciara O’ Halloran for making the

Irish girls under 16s

team.

By Leo Morrison.

Every year, around the festive

period Gerry Keegan a singer/

songwriter from Dublin, comes to

schools all around Ireland, teach-

ing them how special they are

individually and life in general. He

has been coming and giving re-

treats in Crescent, for well over a

decade and last week made yet

another appearance in the school

library for this years 3rd years.

The retreat was held on Thursday

and Friday and took up the entire

school day.

Gerry uses music as a way of

communicating to the students

showing them how unique they

are, in their own way. He speaks

about his past, which was blight-

ed by alcohol addiction at a early

age. Gerry is a good friend of the

school and always provides a

very enjoyable and thought-

provoking retreat.

By Eoin O’ Shea & Brian Kelleher

Third Year Retreat With Gerry Keegan!

show, All Shook Up, is set

in a small town in the

American Midwest, in the

summer of 1955. It re-

volves around a young

man who moves to a con-

servative town where mu-

sic, singing and dancing

are banned, and his ef-

forts to shake up the

town. The plot is based on

the storyline of Shake-

speare's The Twelfth

Night, where everyone

falls in love with the

wrong person, with all of

the songs by Elvis Presley.

It’s directed by Tony Cu-

sack, and is showing at

the end of February. Three

Crescent students are

taking part, Mykeala Tom-

Unbeknownst to most of us

avid Crescent Show-goers,

Ard Scoil also put on a

show every year, and bring

in some girls from other

schools to help them out.

This year the Ard Scoil Rís

musical will be of great

interest to Crescent as the

show will be featuring

Crescent students! The

Last Thursday, 2nd January,

Crescent Juniors and Seniors

made their way to Catholic

Institute to play our biggest

rivals Laurel Hill Coláiste. The

Juniors have not lost a match

in the league yet so they were

not going to let that stop with

Coláiste. They started off with

a goal from Ciara Leahy.

Coláise put up a good fight but

there was no stopping our

Juniors. Goals came from left,

right and center from Clodagh

Moloney (1) , Clodagh Coffey

(2), Jennifer O’ Malley (2),

Nicole Hackett (1) and Ciara

Leahy (3) leaving the match

ending of a score 9-0. This

team are on top of the league

with no matches being lost

they are the hot favourites to

win the League and Cup. They

hope to play the Junior Cup Semi-

Final next week against Thurles,

with having beaten Urselines

Thurles in the league only 2-0

their match will be nail biting. The

score may not have been the

same for the Seniors but they left

the pitch with a 3-0 victory. With

Crescent not having played a

match in a number of weeks, this

would be a tough match. Coláiste

got knocked out of the cup by

Thurles, Crescent’s Semi- Final

competitors next week. It was

therefore necessary that we

came out of the match with a

positive outcome. The math start-

ed off with a goal coming from

our left-mid Megan Malwhinney

with a great shot from the top of

the circular. Coláiste tried to

break down our defence but the

Crescent backs were too strong

with our goalie, Eloise Hickey not

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even touching the ball for the whole match. Goals then came

from our wing Sarah Woods and then Clodagh Coffey.

Coláiste however never gave up but Crescent were just too

good to let them score. So, Crescent left Catholic Institute

victorious with 2 great wins. It has now been decided that

Crescent will play Urselines Thurles in the Senior Cup Semi-

Final next Wednesday the 8th in Thurles. We wish both teams

the best of luck for the rest of the season.

By Lisa Kearney & Sarah Woods

Ard Scoil Show With A Crescent Twist!

linson, Maria

Fleming, and

Katherine Spil-

lane. We encour-

age everyone to

go and are sure

it will be an en-

tertaining and

enjoyable show!

By Maria Fleming.

The North Munster

Schools Cross-Country

Championships took

place in Salesian Sec-

ondary College, Pal-

laskenry on Thursday

26th January 2012.

Schools from across

Munster took place and

it was a great day for

everyone involved.

There were seventeen

athletes representing

Crescent and they all

did very well. Four peo-

ple managed to qualify

into the next stage

which is the Munster

Schools Cross-Country,

CIT. Tim Moloney and

Eoghan Beary both fin-

ished forth in their

individual races. Peter

Fitzgibbon also quali-

fied finishing fifth be-

hind Beary in the mi-

nor boys competition.

Jessica Coyne finished

first in the inter girls

and Molly Doran fin-

ished seventh in the

minor girls category.

In the Group D ca-

tergories Cormac

Flanagan, Chris Kelly,

Shane Joyce, Conor

Meehan and Mark Dil-

lon finished seventh in

the inter boys division.

Eoghan Beary, Peter

King, Eoin Cosgrove

and Peter Fitzgibbon

finished seventh in

the minor boys divi-

sion. Molly Doran,

Kim McInerney and

Tracey Collopy fin-

ished 6th in minor

girls division. All the

athletes are also

involved in sport

outside the school.

This is a key factor

in their perfor-

mance and is how

they achieved these

great results and

did the school

proud! Great thanks

to Amy Judge who

registered the ath-

letes and sorted out

the transportation

to and from the

event. The students

The Crescent Express

that took part and

their placing's

fol-

low:

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Written , edited and produced by:

De Chardin TY 2012

Journalists:

R. Keyes

A. McElhinney

L. Morrison

K. Nevin

G. O’Donnell

E. O’Shea

Z. O’Connor

C. Reale

K. Reidy

B. Dowling

L. Kearney

B. Kelleher

S. Woods

W. Leonard

E. O’Shea

D. Carroll

L. Cassidy

C. Reale

P. Cumiskey

M. Fleming

Got a story for The Crescent Express?

E-mail:

crescenttynewspaper@gmail.com

CCC Cross Country Success!

Minor boys singles: Eoghan Beary (4th)

Peter King (37th), Eoin Cosgrove (47th),

Peter Fitzgibbon (5th)

Senior boys singles: Tim Moloney (4th),

Robbie Scott (17th),

Inter boys: Cormac Flannagan (21th),

Chris Kelly (34th), Shane Joyce (38th),

Conor Meehan (39th), Mark Dillon (40th)

Junior boys: Darragh Aherne (43rd)

Inter Girls: Jessica Coyne (1st)

Junior Girls: Aoibhin Maher (23rd)

Minor Girls: Molly Doran (7th) Kim McIn-

erney (40th) Tracey Collopy (41st)

By Dylan Caroll &

Zak O’Connor

Edited by:

Lauren Cassidy (de Chardin)

Lisa Kearney (de Chardin)

Produced by:

Luke Rohan (Ogilvie)

Michael McGann (Ogilvie)

ments

and

songs

will be

played.

After their visit, a tour of Limerick is

then set to take place with the stu-

dents, where they will be shown sites

such as King Johns Castle, Thomond

Park and the Treaty Stone. The stu-

dents will then go on to visit The Cliffs

of Moher and Cork Heritage Centre

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It was a sunny spring

morning as the Crescent

Senior Cup squad left for

Cork to play their first

round of the Avonmore

Senior Cup against the

prestigious opponents of

Presentation Brothers

Cork (PBC) who were last

years finalists.

Over 100 supporters trav-

elled down to Musgrave

Park on two buses

which left the school at

half twelve on Wednesday.

There was a great turnout

by the Crescent students,

their families and past

pupils, who filled the new

stand in Musgrave Park to

cheer on their team.

The game kicked off as it

finished with it being a very

lively and entertaining en-

counter.

The home side had more to

cheer about with them taking

an early lead with two tries

in quick succession, but then

Crescent started to grow in

confidence and with the help

of the encouraging crowd

found themselves inside the

opposition 22.

A brilliant team try, with a bit

of individual skill by Greg

CCC Senior Cup Clash!

On 23rd March 2012, a class

named ‘Europe1A’, will arrive in

Limerick from the southern coast

of France. They are in le

troisiéme, the equivalent of 4th

year,.

They plan to arrive in Limerick on

the 22nd , then on the 23rd come

to visit the school for a few hours

where the French students in

Transition Year will greet them

and put on a ‘mini-talent’ show

where Irish and French instru-

O’Shea led to Nigel Kerr

going in for a try in the

corner. Gearoid Lyons

brought the sides closer

with a well-struck drop-

goal.

The half ended (10-8) with

the Limerick side on top,

and they came out in the

second half with the atti-

tude to go on and win the

game.

It was close until the 60th

minute when the PBC wing-

er got on the end of a kick

which made the score 17-8.

Crescent knew that the

game was far from over and

that anything could happen in

cup rugby!

Despite a determined fight back

it seemed too much to ask

rescent for, against a well or-

ganised Pres defence.

The game ended 17-8. TThe

Crescent team were very disap-

pointed as they had trained hard

for the game but the cup is far

from over and they are looking

forward to the clash with anoth-

er big cork side

in Christian Brothers Cork (CBC)

at the end of the month

By Will Leonard

for Irish Culture in the days to fol-

low.

In preparation for the visit, Cres-

cent students will be recording vid-

eos and taking pictures of the

school to make a nice first impres-

sion! The visit should set up a link so

the two schools can have exchanges

in the foreseeable future

By Stephen Hackett

line for replies from our let-

ters. The book will also contain

replies from Ms Ryan’s third

year class last year (Sanchez)

and present sixth years from

when they were in first year.

Anyone that would like to write

a letter is more than welcome

to just drop it off to Antoinette

Ryan, Room 1. Kasisi’s Chil-

dren's Home is for children

who have lost their parents to

AIDs. In 1926 the Dominican

Sisters founded Kasisi Orphan-

age. Two years later they

handed it over to the Little

Servants of Mary Immaculate,

a Polish Catholic order. Since

then, it has grown to be the

Transition year class, De

Chardin are doing a project

with their English teacher,

Antoinette Ryan to raise mon-

ey in aid of Kasisi’s Children

Home, Lusaka Zambia. Each

student in De Chardin has

written at least one letter to a

famous figure. In each letter

we have asked one of two

questions, “What was the best

advice you were ever given?”

or “What gets you through

this difficult time?” From the

replies we hope to compile a

booklet and sell it. The book

will be called “A Light in the

Dark - Inspirational thoughts”.

The 12th of March is the dead-

largest and best known Or-

phanage in Zambia. In 2002

the name was changed into

Kasisi Children’s Home. At the

moment, the children’s home

has a separate wing for ba-

bies and younger children, a

small house for older girls, a

street kids house and two

wings for children who are

infected with HIV/AIDS,

namely The House of Hope

and Martin’s Room. Seven

Polish Sisters, eight Zambi-

an Sisters and about fifty

Zambian Housemothers run

the children’s home. Pro-

duction of the book is still in

the early stages so the

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price that the book is

being sold for is still un-

decided. Any updates on

the production of the book

will be included in upcom-

ing issues of the Crescent

Express.

By Katie Reidy & Rachel

Keyes

De Chardin TY Book Project!

Recently students from all

years have been obsessing

over the new free app: Tem-

ple Run. The object of the

game is to run as far as pos-

sible by avoiding obstacles

that require the player to

either jump , duck, or turn in

a precise manner. While all of

this is happening, the player

will be pursued by the

"demonic monkeys". While

playing, the player is re-

quired to tilt their device

either to the left or the right

to collect coins. the coins

start off yellow, then red,

then blue. The coins the

player collects in the

game can be spent in the

game's store. At the

store the player is able to

purchase upgrades for

allowing power-ups that

are acquired in the game

more beneficial, as well

as perks and unlockable

characters and wallpa-

pers.

By Gillian O’Donnell and

Sarah Wood

Temple Run Takeover!

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Last Sunday marked 46th

Superbowl, with the New York

Giants taking on the New Eng-

land Patriots, in the Lucas Oil

Stadium in Indianapolis. The

Patriots, tipped as favourites,

came into game with the

knowledge that they have won

13 and have only lost 3 all

season, while the Giants were

9-7.

The Patriots got off to a de-

cent start to their season

with two wins, before the

Buffalo Bills defeated them.

After a few more hiccups,

New England had a great end

to their regular season with

eight wins on the trot. Leading

them to be strong favourites

for the Superbowl.

The New York Giants had an

up and down regular season

with 9 wins and seven loses,

with 4 losses in a row and

only 2 wins in their last 3

matches. however they come

into the Superbowl final with

an advantage as these two

teams have met before, in the

Superbowl in 2008. In that

match the NY Giants tri-

umphed with a 17-14 win.

However every match is led

by a rivalry between quar-

terbacks. and this match

was no different, with a bat-

tle between two of NFL’s

best. the experienced Tom

Brady of the Patriots, who is

seen as the having the best

arm in the game, took on the

youthful, exciting and speedy

Eli Manning.

The Giants started the game

well with some great yards

made from the throws from

Eli Manning and some great

fields from the speedy wide

receiver, Victor Cruz. The

first points of the game,

surprisingly came when

Patriots quarterback Tom

Brady grounded the ball by

throwing it to no one in his

own end zone. Brady was

penalised and the Giants

were awarded two points.

As the game neared the end

of the first quarter, the Gi-

ants struck with a touch-

down, with Manning finding

Cruz. The following kick was

good, bringing the score to

9 - 0. Early in the second

quarter the Patriots got

their first points on the

board with a kick from

Gostkwoski. With 18 se-

conds in the second quar-

ter to go the Pats made it

up to the giants 12m line.

Brady then found Woodhead

with a short throw to score

the touchdown, bringing the

score to 10 - 9 to the giants

at half-time.

Then in the third quarter,

with some great work from

the Patriots, Brady eventu-

ally found his rhythm and

they got over for a touch-

down with a great drive

from Hernandez. The score

was now 17 - 9 and it was

looking more and more like

it was going to be the Patri-

ots day.

However the Giants stuck

at it and their hard work

was rewarded when Tynes

slotted a kick from 39 yards,

bringing the game to 17 - 12 and

then again when he scored

another one, bringing the

match to 17 - 15.

With a minute to go Giants,

through Bradshaw found a

gaping hole in the Pat’s de-

fence. He took it full advantage

and bundled over for what

would be the match winning

touchdown.

With a minute to go the Patri-

ot’s tried their hardest, but to

no avail and the New York Gi-

ants were crowned Superbowl

XLVI champions.

By Cian Reale and Patrick Cum-

iskey

Touchdown Giants as New York Win Superbowl XLVI!

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It’s that academically demanding time of year again as the 3rd and 6th years are preparing themselves for the pre examina-

tions which will take place over the next few weeks. Although not the “real deal” , the pres are a great way to get you focused and will help you when it comes to the State Exami-

nations in June. With big exams come a lot of stress and anxiety, but if you work and keep organised reaching high goals will seem not as impossible as they did at the beginning. Begin your study early so time is in abundance making it easier to get the best results possible-the hard work will pay off. And if you haven’t started already then get going! And make sure you put a

good timetable into place after the pres!

Some tips !

1. It is important to have uninterrupted study time. You may have to hang a DO NOT DISTURB sign on the door or take the phone

off the hook—put your mobile on silent or switch it off altogether.

2. The amount of light you need depends on what you are doing. The important thing is that you can clearly see what you need

to see without any strain or discomfort

3.If your Study Place is too warm, you might become sleepy. If it is too cold, your thinking may slow down and become unclear.

Select a temperature at which your mind and body function best.

4. Try to get to bed on time over the coming weeks. A tired brain is very unproductive. Get some genuine rest at the weekend.

Be sure to get regular exercise, even just a short walk can clear your head.

5. Become an active learner. Always work with a pen and paper. Focus on a specific task, not a specified time for your study.

6.Prioritize :get in the habit of beginning with the most difficult subject or task.

7.Cramming is useful in emergencies; it is not good for long term learning.

8.Study Plans: set a goal for yourself and get organised. If you are always wondering

where to start a study plan can be a great timesaver.

8.Focus: before you begin studying, take a few minutes to decide on a few objectives—what do you want to have covered by the end of the study period and gather what you

will need.

9.Change the subject you study every one to two hours for variety .

By Bonnie Dowling

Study Tips For Upcoming Exams!