De La Salle College Waterford is a secondary school in

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with over 1,000 students and 90 teachers.

De La Salle Teachers Training College

The De La Salle Brothers had a presence in Waterford since the 1870s, and opened a

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college at Newtown, Waterford in 1894. In 1894 Mr. J.L. Ahearn was appointed professor of irish, the first such appointment in a teacher training college. Students who completed the two year course were awarded the National Teacher(NT) qualification entitling them to teach in primary (national) schools. In May 1939, lay teacher training ceased (male teacher training centered in St. Patrick's, Drumcondra), however, the De La Salle brothers continued to be trained for another 10 years,De La Salle College
De La Salle GAA Club along with Marist and Presentation Brothers, in 1972 an agreement was made where brothers were trained alongside the christian brothers in St. Mary's College, Marino.

Secondary school

A secondary school was opened on the site in the 1940s. In 1948 it officially opened as a Day and Boarding School. The boarding school closed in 1990, and from 1991 operated as a day school only. In 2008 it appointed its first lay principal, and in 2009 The Le Cheile Schools Trust became the trustee body for the school. School management was criticised in a 2012

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inspection report for taking on €500,000 in debts for refurbishments with little educational benefit, and for teachers teaching subjects for which they were not qualified, under the leadership of then principal Gearoid O' Brien.

Sports and Activities

Gaelic Games

Gaelic games were always a significant sport in De La Salle College, both as a teachers college and secondary school. Seven former GAA presidents trained at De La Salle, and a number of inter-county players and managers have gone to school in the college. In 2007 and 2008 they won the Munster Schools Dr. Harty Cup and All-Ireland

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. In football the won the Munster Schools Corn Uí Mhuirí in 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1965. The school is also strongly linked to

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club.

Soccer

Two former Irish soccer internationals Jim Beglin and John O'Shea are among the school's past pupils. The school has been successful in competitions, winning the FAI Schools minor title in 2002 and in 2009.

Musical Society

The De La Salle College Musical Society which is over 40 years old, performing its first musical in 1979 Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. The annual College Musical performed in the college hall, is a significant event each year.

Principals

* Br. Severus Harvey - first principal (-1891) * Br. Roderick (Thomas) Kane (1891-1911), Assistant Superior-General De La Salle Brothers from 1911. * Br. Damien Kellegher (1996-2008) * Gearoid O’ Brien (2008- 2015) - first lay principalFirst lay principal for De La Salle College
Munster Express, 23 May 2008. * Margaret Betts (2015-2020) * Michael Walsh (2020 – present)

Notable alumni

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John Mullane John Mullane (born 28 January 1981) is an Irish hurler who played as a right corner-forward for the Waterford senior team. Mullane joined the team during the 2001 championship and immediately became a regular member of the starting fifteen. ...

- Hurler * Dave McCarthy - Gaelic footballer *

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- Singer and TV entertainer * Danny O'Dwyer - Journalist and creator of the

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documentary series * Liam Griffin - Hurler, Manager Manager, won All-Ireland in 1996 * Maurice Cummins - politician, senator(leader of the seanad 2011-2016), Mayor of Waterford 1995-96. * Richard Langford - founding principal of

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Alumni of the Teachers Training College

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- Irish patriot and hunger striker * Richard Barrett - Teacher, Republican, executed during the civil war in 1922 * Sean McCarthy - Teacher, TD and Cork Lord Mayor, GAA President 1932-1935 * Robert (Bob) O’Keeffe - Teacher, Hurler, GAA President 1935-1938 *

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- Teacher, GAA President 1938-1943(first from Ulster) *

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- Teacher, GAA President 1943-1946 * Dan O’Rourke - Teacher, TD, Senator, GAA President 1946-1949 *

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- Teacher and Folklorist, with the

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* Michael Kehoe - Teacher, GAA President 1949-1952 *

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- Teacher, GAA President 1967-1970

References

External links

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