College History and Achievements
2023-2024
- Winner of National ETTA Leaving Certificate Technology Project competition
- First in Dubiln North ETTA Leaving Certificate Technology and Engineering Project competition
- U16 Boys Basketball Team placed 2nd in the Leinster Competition & qualified for the All-Ireland series
- TY students qualified for the final of the Certified Irish Angus Competition
- Trips to Paris & Barcelona
- TY students linking in and volunteering with Prosper Fingal
- One of eight schools to participate in the ‘Composers in the Classroom’ programme
- Trips to the Dáil, Abbey Theatre, Microsoft Dreamspace, Trim Castle, & Baldoyle Training Centre
- Rugby 7s Senior Girls Leinster Finalists
- Rugby 7s Junior Girls Leinster Finalists
- U17 Boys Soccer Leinster Finalists
- Qualified for Griffith Annual Schools Debating Competition
- 1st year Boys Soccer Leinster Finalists
- DDLETB Interschools Senior Debating winners
- TY NFTE Regional Finalists
- TY NFTE National Finalists
- Senior Boys Rugby Fingal Cup winners
- Junior Boys Rugby Rossiter Cup Finalists
- 1st & 2nd place winners at IAMTA Pi Quiz regional competition
- 5th place in the IAMTA Pi Quiz national competition
- Held a ‘Student Voice Forum’ with Fingal Co Council Mayor & Deputy Mayor and Senator Lorraine Clifford
- U15 Boys Soccer Leinster A finalists
- Bank of Ireland Money Smarts winners
- TY Dreamspace Ambassador participants
- 1st year Boys GAA Leinster finalists
- Best Physical Sciences Intermediate category winners at SciFest
- Junior Boys Cricket Leinster finalists
- Senior Boys Cricket Leinster winners
2022-2023
- Junior hurlers won Dublin final
- Senior Boys won Senior Hurling Championship
- First Year Boys Hurling team reached the Dublin Final
- Junior boys Gaelic football reached Dublin Final
- 1st Year boys soccer won Division 1 North East League
- U15 boys soccer team runners up Division 1 North East league
- Junior and Senior Rugby Fingal Cup winners
- Rugby 7s Senior Girls All-Ireland winners
- The Senior girls rugby team made it to the Leinster Senior Cup
- Junior and Senior Boys rugby teams won the Fingal Cup
- GAA Senior girls North Dublin blitz winners
- Senior Boys GAA won Dublin Cup and reached Leinster final
- Active School flag - one of only 3 schools in Ireland to be awarded
- Senior Cricket Leinster Division 2 winners
- Trips to Iceland, Berlin & Paris
- Green Schools - Travel flag and third green flag
- Hugely successful production of musical 'Footloose'
- Ty Student Enterprise students won the Enterprising School Spirit award at the county finals
- School awarded Amber Flag for promoting Mental Wellbeing
- Ran the Headstrong Programme to reduce the stigma of mental health issues
- One of the first schools to participate in Fingal's Planet Youth Programme
- TY students linking in and volunteering with Prosper Fingal
- Senior debaters came runner up at the EU 50th Anniversary event in Balbriggan
- Our junior debating team came 2nd in the DDLETB debating competition
2021
- October 2021: National winner Secondary Water School of the Year 2021. Awarded new Green Flag and Water Flag
- October 2021: Headstrong committee awarded Cycle Against Suicide/Headstrong programme for eight years running
- September 2021: Third nationally in the @TechWeekIRL Bebras challenge
- May 2021: Participated in 'A home for everyone' challenge run by Construction Industry Ireland
- May 2021: Special recognition CPR Award from CPR4schools
- May 2021: SSE F1 in schools team were F1 in schools finalists
- May 2021: Young Social Innovators awarded 'My Mental Health Matters' badges
- May 2021: Awarded Amber Flag for promoting positive mental health
- May 2021: SciFest 2021
- April 2021: Second in North Dublin for the Engineering & Technology Teachers Association's young engineers project
- April 2021: Junior National Finalists in the BEBRAS Computational Thinking Challenge
- April 2021: Two students awarded DCU Academic Award for Leaving Certificate 2020
- January 2021: Finalists at BT Young Scientist. Third place individual award.
2020
- May 2020: Virtual SciFest Competition
- April 2020: Young Social Innovators Project awarded ‘very good’
- March 2020: Third Prize at IAMTA Junior Problem-Solving Quiz
- March 2020: U-15 Leinster Cup Finalists (final cancelled due to COVID-19)
- March 2020: First Year Boys Soccer Leinster Finalists (final cancelled due to COVID-19)
- March 2020: Ladies Football Junior Leinster Finalists (final cancelled due to COVID-19)
- February 2020: Leinster Schools Cross Country Finals for Intermediate boys
- February 2020: Qualified for IMTA Junior Maths Competition Final 2020
- January 2020: Cambridge Schools Debating Competition Participants
- January 2020: Quarter Finals of Leinster Schools Debating Competition
- January 2020: Qualified for final selection round of Irish Maths Olympiad 2020
- January 2020: U-15 Boys Soccer North East Division 1 League Winners
- January 2020: Highly commended in finals of BT Young Scientist
2019
- November 2019: First Years Boys North Dublin Futsal winners and Dublin Finalists
- November 2019: Top ten finish for Junior Chess Team at Schools Chess Tournament
- November 2019: Comórtas Díospóireachta Gael Linn (Junior/ Sóisearach)
- October & November 2019: Leinster Schools Debating Competition Participants
- October 2019: Best Action Plan at Water Flag Kildare Meet
2017
- January 2017: Finalists at BT Young Scientist
- February 2017: Winners U16 Basketball East Region Plate
- February 2017: Winners U19 East Region League
2016
- January 2016: Seven projects at BT Young Scientist Finals: 2nd place Junior Individual
- February 2016: Senior and U13 Soccer Winners of Leinster North East League
- April 2016 All Ireland Finalists Junk Kouture
- May 2016: Leinster Finalists Senior Cricket
- September 2016: European Union Science Olympiad
- September 2016: Cycle Against Suicide Ambassador Award
- October 2016: U16 Hurling Quarter Finalists
- October 2016: First Year Gaelic Football Champions
- November 2016: Dublin Region U16 Boys Basketball Champions
- December 2016: Dublin Region U19 Boys Basketball Winners
2015
- January 2015: Winners of individual Junior Technology Section BT Young Scientist Competition
- January 2015: Second place of individual Junior Maths and Physics Section BT Young Scientist Competition
- March 2015: Winners of DIT SciFest Competition
- May 2015: Winners of Dublin Junior GAA Football
- May 2015: Finalists of Dublin Juvenile GAA Football
- May 2015: Winners North Dublin Senior Rugby
- May 2015: Finalists at Leinster Schools Athletics
- June 2015: Winners Sentinus Northern Ireland Young Scientist
- September 2015: Cycle Against Suicide Ambassador Award
2014
- January 2014: Finalists at BT Young Scientist Competition
- February – March 2014: Student Art Exhibition Displayed at Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre (Newgrange)
- March 2014: Gold Medalists at Dublin Judo Championships
- April 2014: Finalists Gael Linn Leinster Debating
- May 2014: Winners of Maths in Science Award SciFest Competition
- May 2014: Winners of Discover Space Award SciFest Competition
- June 2014: Winners Schools Film Awards
2013
- January 2013: Finalists at BT Young Scientist Competition
- January 2013: Finalists North Leinster U15 Soccer
- March 2013: Winners of UNESCO Video Awards
- May 2013: Finalists at Leinster Schools Athletics
- October 2013: Winners of Balbriggan Tidy Towns Perpetual Award
- November 2013: Winners of Dublin Section Irish Schools Golf
2012
- January 2012: Finalists at BT Young Scientist Competition>
- February 2012: Winners of Fingal Enterprise Awards
- March 2012: Overall Winners of Balbriggan Town Council Awards
- May 2012: Dublin Colleges U14 Hurling Semi-Finalists
- May 2012: Winners U14 Leinster Schools Cricket
- December 2012: Finalists Coca Cola School Stars Music Competition
- December 2012: Semi-Finalists ISPCC All Ireland Talent Search
2011
- January 2011: Finalists at BT Young Scientist Competition
- January 2011: Winners North East Leinster U14 Soccer
- March 2011: Finalists Leinster U14 Soccer
- March 2011: Students Perform at Festival of Music in National Concert Hall
- May 2011: Winners of Patrick Hickey Memorial Cup (First Year Gaelic)
- June 2011: Runners-Up Sentinus Northern Ireland Young Scientist and Innovator Finals
2010
- January 2010: Winners of Junior Technology Section BT Young Scientist Competition
- March 2010: Winners of DIT SciFest Competition
- May 2010: Winners of Tom Quinlan Plate Competition (First Year Gaelic Football)
- May 2010: Gold Medallists at Dublin Schools Athletics
- June 2010: Winners of Northern Ireland Young Scientist Competition
- November 2010: Winners of Drogheda Choral Competition
- November 2010: Winners of U14 North East Leinster Soccer
- November 2010: Finalists Dublin Colleges U14 Gaelic Football
2009
- September 2009: College Opened at Castlelands, Balbriggan
