Greenhills College


Greenhills College is a secondary school situated on Limekiln Avenue, Greenhills in South Dublin. It accommodates Junior Certificate, Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied students and offers the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme to its students. It is run by the Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board and is a non-fee paying school.
Greenhills College opened in 1970 in Crumlin, and moved to its present site in 1972. In 1973, Greenhills College offered adult education and leisure-type classes to the local community. The college also provides post-Leaving Certificate and Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme courses for adult learners.
The school competes in a number of sports and extra curricular activities including Gaelic football, hurling, soccer, basketball, boxing, and Gaelic handball. Greenhills represented Ireland at the World Schools Games in Sweden in 1991. In 2015 the school won its first title in hurling. Ireland's only ever Olympic Gold medalist in Boxing Michael Carruth is a former student of Greenhills College which he attended with his two brothers.

Curriculum

The curriculum offered covers a number of common subjects in the State Examinations including German, Art, Music, Business, Engineering, Materials Technology Wood, Construction, Metalwork, Religious Education, Science and History.
In addition to the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme, a number of subjects are taught at the school in both the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate cycles.

Extra curricular activities

Sports

, hurling, Soccer and Basketball teams are the main team sports played at Greenhills College.
The school has won Ireland's premier national soccer title the Dr. Tony O' Neill cup on two occasions in 1980/81 and 1990/91, representing Ireland in the 1991 World Schools Cup in Sweden.
The College has a number of clubs and societies including a Student Council, Enterprise Club, ECO Club and a Cooking Club.
Each year, Seachtain na Gaeilge events are organised to promote the Irish language in the school. The Irish department organises events, including a ceili dance, poc fada and the screening of Irish films.
An annual Mind Your Mind event has been held since 2016 to promote the importance of speaking up on issues prevalent to the youth of today especially among young adult males.

Facilities

The college has three science laboratories, two art classrooms, two woodwork classrooms, two engineering classrooms, a technical graphics rooms and over 40 classrooms. The five computer classrooms contain over 80 broadband-enabled computers. Greenhills College has a separate P.E. hall and gymnasium on the school grounds is equipped with shower rooms and a full gym utilised by both students and staff.

Adult education

Greenhills College of Further Education runs full and part-time PLC qualifications in Business, Computing, Engineering, Healthcare, Sports, Art, Pre-university Arts and VTOS courses. The courses take place in the Further-Ed section of the college.
Some of the adult education courses are FETAC accredited.

Notable alumni