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Sports & Cultural Activities
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Students have access to quality sports facilities (with a gym in both Coolock and Kilbarrack) and are involved in many sporting events and activities which are organised through Students’ Union and the CDVEC Sports and Cultural Council.
Sports and Cultural Week
Earlier this year Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education created a position for a Recreation Officer. This is a first within the City of Dublin VEC. The role of the officer is to organise, facilitate and promote opportunities for the students to partake in Sports & Cultural Activities, in association with the Students Union. To this end Minister of State for Food and Horticulture, Trevor Sargent, launched our campaign to secure Green Flag status for our college. Stephen Rea, one of our most famous actors, whose son attends Coláiste Dhúlaigh, launched our Sports & Cultural Week. He spoke at the presentation of prizes at our Film Competition. The programme for our inaugural Sports & Cultural Week, from Monday 28th April to Thursday 29th April 2008, had a wide range of activities including:
Programme: Monday 28th April - Thursday 1st May1
Monday 28th April:
12 00pm Launch of “College Green Campaign” by Minister of State for Food and Horticulture, Trevor Sargent. Followed by a talk on “Sustainability Issues” for students.
2 00pm Launch of our Sports & Cultural Week by one of our most famous actors, Stephen Rea, followed by a screening of our Film Competition & presentation of prizes.
(12 00pm Painting/Drawing & Photography & Writing Competition - Exhibition commences & Judging all week prizes on Thursday pm.)
Tuesday 29th April:
10 00am Irish Language Quiz As part of Lá na Gaeilge. The prizes were presented by Orla Sweeney who is the manager of the Seachtain na Gaeilge office!
Wednesday 30th:
12.30pm Outdoor Football Competition- Astropark Coolock (15 minutes walk to Venue for Students). This was a great day with 14 teams entered. Rain held off for most of the afternoon!
This was followed by presentation of prizes and food & refreshments in the Astropark Club for staff and students.
Thursday 1st:
12 30pm Finals Indoor Football Competition.
1 00pm Live DJ Music in the Coolock Canteen for all Students
1 30pm Food & Fare in the Coolock Canteen for all Students.
2 00pm Computer Games
3 00pm Prizes Presented for Art, Photo & Story Competition.
This event will hopefully go from strength to strength in future years. Next year we hope to field some Soccer and Gaelic teams to compete in VEC and other competitions and wear the college colours proudly! We pride our college on working hard to meet not alone the academic needs of our students with small classes and lots of individual attention, but we aim to look after the Sports & Cultural needs also.