Author: Hazelwood College

Geography Investigation 2022

Thanks to Ciara Ahern for this fantastic report on the Leaving Cert Geography trip

*Geography Investigation 2022*

For our Leaving Certificate Geography Field trip, we went to Creg beach Lahinch Co. Clare. This investigation/project is worth 20% in our Leaving Certificate Examination.

We left school at 7:30am in the morning, carrying our backpacks, raincoats and wellies with us in preparation for all types of weather. Mr. Noonan and Ms. Quaid accompanied us. The bus journey to Liscannor Bay was approximately 1 hour and 45minutes arriving at Lanich around 9:15am.

Firstly, we bought ourselves some coffee, to keep warm and fuel up for the day ahead. We travelled down to Creg beach where we calculated the slope of the beach, identified cusps and berms measured and sketched them. We measured beach materials size, observed longshore drift on the river Moy as it entered the sea. Recorded the wind speed, wind direction, wave type and frequency of waves over a minute.

We used apparatus such as the vernier callipers, anemometer, clinometer and a compass in which we recorded the results for each task into our work sheets.

Overall, the weather remained pleasant, and we all had great fun. Our guide Jess was extremely helpful with our group and clearly instructed what we had to do on the day. We applied our knowledge from class and conducted the experiments as a team.

Senior Hurling

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Thanks to Paraic and Fionn in TY for their comprehensive report on the recent senior hurling game

On the 12th of October at 12:30 in Golden, Co.Tipperary the senior hurlers of Hazelwood College played their first round of Munster championship against Ard Scoil na Mara Tramore Co. Waterford

We started well on the day leading the first half 2.9 to 9 points. There were no substitutions made in the first half but all but two of our points were from frees. Both our goals were scored by Ruari O’Connor who had a fantastic game.

Half time substitutes. Tommy Ryan came on form Diarmuid Curtin who upped the tempo in the second half.

Ciaran O Brien came off injured replaced by Patrick Kirby after 10 minutes into the second half. Christopher Dunne who had a stormer of a game was replaced by Diarmuid Ryan who’s physicality made a difference. Tomas Galvin was replaced by Cillian Quinn who had made wonderful contributions to the victory. Cillian getting on the scoresheet with a wonderful goal and had a shot narrowly waved wide with the last puck of the ball. The

Final score on the day was 4:17 to 1:15 to Hazelwood College

Paraic O Connor & Fionn O’ Beirne TY2

Basketball News

Huge congratulations to both of our under 19 & 16 girls basketball teams who defeated Abbeyfeale today! Some serious determination and effort was put in by the girls to be victorious. You have done yourselves and the school proud

Gaa News

A day of mixed fortunes on the playing fields. Well done to the first year hurlers who defeated Coláiste na Trocaire in their first round of the county. A tight affair in Charleville saw the U15 footballers being edged out by the Patrician Academy Mallow.

Hard luck to our U16 1/2 team who came up short against a strong SMI team 3-11 to 1-23. A big thank you to Ms Costello for her support today.

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u19 Soccer News

Hard luck to the U19 squad who had a tough encounter today in Killarney in the 1st round of the Munster Cup. They played well on the day, but were up against a strong Killarney team. Onwards and upwards from here as they next move on to try and defend their title from last year in the Munster Senior Challenge Cup.

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