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PBC Cork
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Location
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Mardyke, Cork

Ireland
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TypePrivate
MottoViriliter Age (Act Manly)
Established1878
PrincipalMichael Hennessy
Enrollment678
ColorsMauve, Black and White
Websitehttp://www.pbc-cork.ie/

Presentation Brothers College (Pres) is a Catholic, boys-only, fee-paying college based in Cork, Ireland. It is also known as PBC, and in Irish as Coláiste na Toirbhirte.

The college's traditional rivals are Christian Brothers College; (As the two main fee paying all-boys schools in Cork, both share similar histories, student bases, and sporting & academic traditions).

History

The college was founded by the Presentation Brothers in 1878, in the South Mall. Soon afterwards it moved to the Grand Parade and, in 1887, to the Western Road. In 1985, the college moved to a new building on the Mardyke on the site of the college's rugby facilities; the Western Road premises is now owned and used by UCC. The college has developed new rugby facilities at Dennehy's Cross & uses Shandon Boat Club, for rowing.

The college is also noted for having founded SHARE, a charity for supporting the elderly.

Curriculum

The school offers both the Junior and Leaving Certificate cycles. It has been named the best boys' secondary school outside Dublin by the Irish Examiner. The current Curriculum teaches First Years Religion, Irish, English, Mathematics, Latin, French, German, Science, Business Studies, History, Geography, CSPE, SPHE, Art and Physical Education. In Second Year, the students choose to drop one of the foreign languages. Unusually for a private school, streaming is not used until Third Year.

Extra-curricular activities and sport

The college has achieved notable success in competitions in Science and Debating, having the oldest debating society in Cork. In 2004, the Pres team won the first Cork Robotics Competition for Schools, which was launched by the Cork Electronics Industry Association (CEIA) at the National Software Centre in Mahon Point. Many times winner of the national debating championship run by the universities, the Dillon Cup, The Munster Schools Debating Cup and other competitions, Pres also won the 2005 St. Aloysius College First Year competition, and came runner-up in the 2006 Cork City Schools Debating Competition (the most important junior debate competition outside Dublin). [1]

Other sports played at the college include basketball, cricket, GAA and soccer. The school has won the GAA Lord Mayor's Cup five times in the last six years, fielding 19 substitutes in 2006.

Rugby

The college sport is Rugby Union. The college has won 27 Munster Schools Senior Cups and has produced 22 Irish Rugby Internationals. In 2007, the school won both the Senior Cup and the Junior Cup (the first time they had won both in the same year since 1995, when Ronan O'Gara was the Senior Captain). Four players have played for the Lions - Tom Kiernan (1962 & 1968), Jerry Walsh (1966), Michael Kiernan (1983), and Ronan O'Gara (2001 & 2005).

Rowing

Pres. College has had many students who have been members of the various Cork clubs since 1890, some of whom have won Irish Championships with these clubs but never as Pres College Rowing Club. In 1985 Presentation College Rowing Club was registered officially for the first time and began rowing out of Shandon Boat Club on the Marina. The equipment used was bought second-hand from Dungarvan Rowing Club. In its existence to date the club has been a tenant of both Cork Boat Club and Lee Rowing Club and has recently returned to Shandon Boat Club. Since 1985 many improvements have taken place.

The club now owns 3 Eights, 4 Fours, 3 Pairs and 4 Singles along with a full selection of blades, coaching launches and a boat trailer, totalling over £100,000 in value. Transport to regattas is made easy by the purchase of a 15-seater minibus.

With over 40 pupils in regular training in both the gym and on the water, the Rowing Club provides a valuable outlet for students in the College who may not be interested in rugby but who have a sporting interest. Rowing contributes enormously to the sporting ethos and policy of the College.

Selected alumni

See also

External links

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