Hazelwood College

Sweet Success for Hazelwood

Hazelwood College’s Home Economics students enjoyed great success at the recent Listowel Food Fair. Since its commencement in 1995 the Listowel Food Fair has continued to be a phenomenal gastronomic success. It continues to provide the public with an array of events such as cookery demonstrations with celebrity chefs, food tastings, seminars, workshops and numerous cookery competitions.
One competition in particular that continues to prove popular with all age groups is the ‘Home Baker of the Year Award 2012’, under the category of ‘Best Cupcake Decoration’ and ‘Best Chocolate Biscuit Cake’ this year. Hazelwood College Home Economics students were invited to participate and the level of interest showed their enthusiasm and imagination. An enormous amount of time and energy was made by all the students who entered. ‘The cherry on the top’ was when Jessica Roche (1st year) was announced 1st prize winner and Tara O’ Donnell (3rd year) won 2nd prize in the best cupcake decoration category. This was followed quickly with the revelation that Orla Cunningham (5th year) was declared 3rd prize winner in the best chocolate cake category.
The judges were highly impressed with the school entries – Michelle O’ Connor one of the judging panelists commented that she ‘was amazed by the interest and the quality of the products entered and blown away by the creativity of the students.’ There was great excitement when news filtered through the school of the girls’ success.

Sweet Success for Hazelwood College! Pictured (L to R) ‘Home Baker of the Year 2012’ Winning students – Jessica Roche winner of Best Cupcake Decoration category, with Tara O’ Donnell who took second prize in the Best Cupcake Decoration Category and Orla Cunningham, who took third prize in the ‘Best Chocolate Biscuit Cake’ category.

Winning Snap Shot

Budding young photographer Keith Coughlan a second year student in Hazelwood College, Dromcollogher was recently announced as one of six winners in the West Limerick Tourism Schools Photography Competition. The prize giving event was held in the Woodlands House Hotel, Adare on Thursday 8th November last. This competition encouraged students to look around and identify all that is positive and attractive about West Limerick and to capture these images in order to raise the profile of tourism in West Limerick. Keith received an iPod Nano for his winning photograph in the Landscape – Natural & Built category. A series of Keith’s creative photographs were digitally shown in school the following morning for all his fellow students and teachers to admire . Hazelwood College were delighted with Keith’s success and look forward to his future photographic endeavours.

Hazelwood College student Keith Coughlan being presented with his award after winning the West Limerick Tourism Schools Photography Competition, in the category of Landscapes- Natural and Built. Photographed are (left to right) Patrick Dooley, Keith Coughlan and David Fitzgerald Chairperson of West Limerick Tourism

History Students Visit Berlin

by Clare Fehin Leaving Certificate

On Thursday morning at four o’clock, thirty three students from Hazelwood College, accompanied by their 4 teachers, left Dromcollogher and headed for Dublin airport. Despite the early hour and the fact many of us had got little or no sleep that night, the excitement on the bus was palpable. We arrived in Schonefeld airport, just outside Berlin, at half twelve and then travelled by coach the hostel in which we were staying. As soon as we dropped off our luggage, we were on our way again.

Our first stop was the museum at Checkpoint Charlie which gave us an interesting insight into the history of the Berlin Wall and the lengths which people went to in order to get to the other side. This included the welding equipment which was used to carry 29 people from east to west. Not all at one time, though that was one question that somebody asked. Following this, we walked to the Reichstag where we were able to walk around inside and climb the top of the large glass dome where we could look across at the city of Berlin. We each received a headset which explained the history of the Reichstag and the surrounding buildings.

Bright and early the next morning, we visited the Olympic Stadium where the 1936 Olympic Games and the 2006 World Cup were held. Luke even got to sit in Angela Merkel’s chair and we got to see the VIP box she uses. After this, we departed on a guided walking tour of the city and encountered many famous sights such as Charlotteburg Palace, Brandenburg Gate and The Soviet War Memorial. Some of the boys were taken with the tanks and artillery guns on display! Next we visited the Jewish Museum which is one of the largest Jewish museums in Europe where two millennia of German Jewish history are on display. Some of the pieces were very sad, especially the photograph of one woman taken hours before she was arrested and deported to her eventual death. Despite the sombre effect of the museums, everyone was ready after dinner, to go shopping in a nearby shopping plaza.

On Saturday, we visited the remains of the Berlin Wall and continued to the DDR Museum which was an interactive museum which shows the daily life in East Germany. We all got to see a recreation of the cramped apartments that people lived in throughout the old East German period. We also go to try out the Trabi cars, which were partly made of plastic and broke down in bad weather. Our next stop was the famous Berlin Zoo which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Especially the park! We had more time for shopping that night at the Alexa Shopping Centre.

On our last day, in spite of our exhaustion, we made our way by S-Bahn to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp which was 35 kilometres outside of the city. It was a very eerie place, especially standing in the same spot as thousands were executed, or the cells that political and religious prisoners were kept. This was the last item on our itinerary so we began our long journey home after an extremely enjoyable and interesting trip.

Focus Ireland Visit

Leaving Certificate Applied students from Hazelwood College Noel Geary, Jack Deely and Tara Barrett pictured with speakers from Focus Ireland, who discussed the effect of homelessness.

Youth Connect Ireland

Hazelwood College Leaving Certificate Applied students John Matthews, Tara Barrett, James Foley, Conor Greaney pictured with Niamh from Youth Connect Ireland who talked to the students about Employment law.

Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet

Third year students, pictured with their teacher Ms Devine, who travelled to the Everyman Theatre in Cork to see a live production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet

Cooking Up a Storm

‘Apprentice Chefs’ from Hazelwood College travelled to Institute of Technology, Tralee to meet renowned chef Mark Doe and Simon Regan as well as taking the opportunity to tour the Institute’s culinary facilities. The Home Economics students who travelled to IT Tralee availed of a ‘masterclass’ with Simon Ryan, head chef at Killarney’s Chapter 40 Restaurant. The students involved are hoping that the masterclass means that their entries for the competition improve.

Hurlers Surge to Limerick Colleges’ Semi-Final

Hazelwood Hurlers Surge to Limerick Colleges’ Semi-Final Clash

Hazelwood College 4-22
St. John the Baptist -Hospital 2-12

Hazelwood College are now through to the semi-final of the Limerick Colleges ‘B’ Senior Hurling Competition after win over Hospital, which was not as easy as the score line suggests in a windy Dromcollogher last Wednesday. Hospital started well by getting the opening two points of the game. Jamie Butler opened Hazelwood’s account in the sixth minute with a fine point, from play, but Hospital struck back a minute later with a fantastic goal and two more points leaving the score 1-4 to 0-2 in favour of Hospital, who did have the advantage of playing with the breeze in the opening half. Hazelwood began to settle into the game in the tenth minute, helped by a Sean Fehin point followed by a powerful goal from the stick of full forward Shane O Callaghan. The scoreboard now read Hospital 1-4 Hazelwood 1-3 with 11 minutes played. For the next ten minutes both sides exchanged points but in the twenty second minute of the game Hospital struck with another fine goal. However, Hazelwood fought back, with a stunning goal, thanks to Diarmuid Buckley. This left the half time score at 2-7 to 2-7.

The Hospital team was first out of the blocks again in the second half and straight away got a point. Hazelwood, buoyed by their first half fight back, began to exert control with the wind at their backs. They scored 1-3 without reply. The score was now 3-10 to 2-8. Hospital replied with a point but this was cancelled out by a fine long range point from James Regan which was followed soon after by another Shane O’Callaghan goal. Hazelwood at this point were well on top, and with 52 minutes played, James Regan dropped in a high ball in front of the keeper who misjudged it allowed it to bounce into the net. It was now 4-17 to 2-12. Hazelwood crowned the victory off with five more points, two coming from Damien Lacey frees and one each from Eddie Prunty, Sean Fehin and Cillian Fahey. The final score was Hazelwood 4-22 Hospital 2-12.

Team and Scroers:
Billy Donegan, Patrick Burke, Sean Flanagan, Declan Stack, Daire Hannigan, Eric O’Connor, James O’Regan (1-2), Jamie Butler (0-5, 0-2 F), Eddie Prunty (0-1) , Darragh Kiely (0-1), Seamus Flanagan (0-1), Sean O’Sullivan (0-3) Sean Fehin (0-3), Shane O Callagahan (2-0) Diarmuid Buckley (1-2)

Subs: John Walsh, Damien Lacey (0-3, 0-2 Frees) , Paddy Lordan Lee Daly, James Kelly, Padraig Roche, Cillian Fahy (0-1)

Talk the Talk in Concern Debates

Hazelwood Talk the Talk in Concern Debate Competition

Hazelwood College began their 2012-13 Concern Debates campaign with a victory over Presentation Convent, Listowel. Hazelwood’s team, Julia O’Doherty (Captain), Alannah Matthews, Grace Morey and Lara Grufferty successfully proposed the motion that ‘The world has more to fear from President Romney than from President Obama’.

In a robust and charged debate, Hazelwood and Listowel gave an expert demonstration of debating skills. Throughout the course of the evening, the competition was on a knife edge. Despite the debate being the first in this year’s competition, the standard on both sides was very high, especially in refutation and rebuttal. Hazelwood’s team, all Transition Years, will face St. Mary’s, Charleville in the coming weeks.

LCA meets ‘Mattie’ Make-up Artist

Hazelwood College LCA girls (back row from left to right) Lisa Mulqueen, Natasha Mangan, Ms. Brenda Wall, Katie O Sullivan, Margaret Kiely. (Front row left to right) Rachel Heffernan, Niamh Ryan and Heidi O Dell pictured with Brenda Wall, make up artist from Le Chocolat in Limerick. Under the guidance of Brenda, the girls learned about caring for their skin and some techniques on the application of make up. Brenda has worked as a make up artist on Ireland Am as well as on Pat Shortt’s TV series ‘Mattie’.