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Prize Night 2007
Prize Night took place
on Monday 14th May with Special Guest His
Excellency Richard Ryan, Irish Ambassador to the
Netherlands, who is a past pupil of the College. Mr. Ryan
spoke eloquently of his time at Oatlands which retains a
special magic for him. He also took us though a brief resume
of a career which has taken him all around the world and
seen him rise to the highest levels of international
diplomacy such as the time he spent as Ireland’s
representative at the U.N. during our Presidency of the
Security Council. Not bad for someone who set off for Tokyo
with his wife and two pairs of chopsticks!
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It was a
night when another outstanding year of achievement at Oatlands in
the Academic, Cultural and Sporting spheres, was recognised. The
sports field yielded a Leinster title in U13 Soccer, Dublin
Championships in U-18 Hurling and U-14 Gaelic Football as well as a
number of notable individual achievements while a stunning
production of the musical Grease, initiatives in forging links with
schools in India, Israel, Palestine and Belfast were but a few of
the many other notable developments marking the academic year at
Oatlands. Ciaran Judge was named as Student of the Year with Niall
Butler taking the Sport Star of the Year Award. Aneurin Moorthy took
the Michael P. Courtney Memorial Award for Academic Excellence and
Ian French was the recipient of the Summa Cum Laude Award for his
outstanding results in the 2006 Leaving Certificate. Leadership
Awards went to Mark Cahill, Andrew Dunn, Gary Fitzpatrick and John
Kelly.
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