Author: Hazelwood College

Safety Street

Safety Street

Leaving Cert Applied students took a walk down ‘Safety Street’, Ireland’s first purpose-built interactive centre where young people can experience various realistic scenarios in a safe environment. Students were asked to navigate three realistic safety scenarios brought to life by volunteer actors from the University of Limerick.

The scenarios included:
* Personal Safety – Short Dark Alley v Long Bright Way Home.
* Life After Drugs – Tales from a recovering addict.
* That’s not ASB? – Impact of Antisocial Behaviour.

Each scenario was followed by discussions and Q&A sessions with representatives from Limerick City Council, Health Service Executive and Garda Síochána.

The initiative was organised by Limerick’s Community Coordinators (employees of LCCSP – Limerick City Community Safety Partnership Ltd) to encourage teenagers to identify everyday hazards and develop safe strategies to deal with potential emergencies, changing their behaviour to keep themselves and others safe.

All Ireland Ladies Football Final

Tom Stack, manager of the Limerick Junior Ladies Football team, Siobhan Mc Carthy, secretary of Limerick Ladies Football with Hazelwood College fifth year student Maire Flanagan and past pupils Joanne O’Gorman and Clodagh Reidy who will play for the Limerick Junior Ladies Footballers in the All Ireland Final next Sunday. Also pictured are school Principal Mr Brendan Burke and school gamesmaster Mr Halpin. Best of luck girls.

Tea Party a Grand Success!!

Tea Party a Grand Success!!

Students and staff of Hazelwood College were treated to tea, coffee and homemade cakes as part of a charity fundraiser organised by Leaving Certificate Applied students with the help of the Home Economics and Religion Department on Thursday 16th September. The proceeds of the Tea & Coffee Morning, a total of €1,100 will be donated to Milford Hospice. “We are very grateful for all the support we received for this worthy cause. Special thanks to the parents, students, staff and locals businesses in the area who helped make this event so successful with their very generous donations ” said Ms. Daly.

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Junior Certificate Results

Junior Certificate Results

Some photos from the recent Junior Certificate Results Day. Congratulations to all the students whose successes were to many to mention. Congratulations to all the teachers who achieved above national average results.

And We’re Back!!!

A Big welcome to the 107 first years starting with us tomorrow the 1st of September.

2nd and 3rd years will return on the 2nd September with the remainder of the school rejoining us on the 3rd.

Ireland bring Beamish and Downey into XV

As Published on www.rte.ie/sport Friday, 27 August 2010 16:37

Ireland have made two changes to the starting XV to play Kazakhstan on Saturday from the team that beat USA 12-22 in their last Women’s Rugby World Cup match.

Scrum-half Tania Rosser, a try-scorer against the US, picked up a shoulder injury during that game and is replaced by the experienced Louise Beamish.

Eliza Downey will make her first appearance of the tournament on the wing with Nora Stapleton dropping out of the 22.

Carol Staunton, Jackie Shiels and Yvonne Nolan are included on the bench.

Ireland hope to improve their performance in the scrum against the Kazakhs.

Commenting on the victory over the US, Ireland head coach Philip Doyle told IRFU.ie: ‘The scrum was under pressure against the Americans, but they are a strong and heavy pack and we’re not.

‘We know Kazakhstan are similar and so we’ll have to have a look at that and work on our scrums and hope to improve.’

Ireland Women (v Kazakhstan), Women’s Rugby World Cup, Pool B, Surrey Sports Park, Saturday 28 August:

15 – Niamh Briggs (Clonmel/Munster)
14 – Amy Davis (Blackrock/Leinster)
13 – Joanne O’Sullivan (Richmond/Exile)
12 – Lynne Cantwell (UL Bohemians)
11 – Eliza Downey (Cooke/Ulster)
10 – Helen Brosnan (Highfield/Munster)
9 – Louise Beamish (UL Bohemian/Munster)
1 – Fiona Coghlan (UL Bohemians/Leinster) (capt)
2 – Gillian Bourke (UL Bohemians/Munster)
3 – Louise Austin (UL Bohemians/Munster)
4 – Kate O’Loughlin (Clonmel/Munster)
5 – Marie Louise Reilly (Navan/Leinster)
6 – Orla Brennan (Blackrock/Leinster)
7 – Claire Molloy (Bristol/Connacht)
8 – Joy Neville (UL Bohemians/Munster)

Replacements:

16 – Yvonne Nolan (Blackrock/Leinster)
17 – Laura Guest (Highfield/Munster)
18 – Carol Staunton (Galwegians/Connacht)
19 – Sinead Ryan (Blackrock/Leinster)
20 – Jackie Shiels (Richmond/Leinster)
21 – Shannon Houston (Blackrock/Leinster)
22 – Mairead Kelly (UL Bohemians/Munster)

Doyle praises ‘outstanding’ Irish women

As Published on www.rte.ie/sport Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:45

Ireland coach Phillip Doyle has described his team’s performance against Women’s Rugby World Cup Pool B rivals USA as ‘outstanding’.

Tries from Joy Neville (2), Niamh Briggs and Tania Rosser, helped Ireland to a 22-12 victory over their closest rivals in this phase.

Doyle told rwcwomens.com: ‘Ireland today were outstanding from the kick off really. Literately in the first two minutes we were on America’s line and we just stuck with it.

‘We stuck to our tactics in the first half and then using the wind in the second half, absolutely outstanding, couldn’t have asked for anything better from one to 22.’

Ireland were beaten 27-0 by England, who continued their strong start to the tournament with a drubbing of Kazakhstan, in their first game and Doyle said his team’s reaction to that defeat was key to their performance.

‘Well we did a lot of talking, we did a lot of soul searching you know. We knew we put in a performance against England, we knew we could go toe to toe with the best in the world and we just had to back ourselves with that performance and to be honest it told you know and we knew we could play rugby against America and we certainly did.’

Neville marked her 50th cap with a brace of tries but was keen to emphasise the team display.

She said: ‘I’m very happy with that but overall I’m so happy with the performance the team put in.

‘It wasn’t about my 50th cap today it was putting in the effort, today was going to be the hardest game of the tournament and just happy to say we came through.

‘We are in a good position now, we’ve a lot to work on still and just looking forward to improving upon a lot of the set pieces and attacking options.’

Ireland face Kazakhstan on Saturday and a high-scoring victory will give them a chance of securing a place in the top four seeds and a place in the semi-final of the 12 team competition.