Frank McLoughlin and Ruaidhri Kennedy, two first year students from Ardgillan Community College, Balbriggan participated in BT Young Scientist with their project - 'To investigate the effectiveness of homemade detergents to manufactured detergents and hence reduce our carbon footprint'. They discovered from their project that homemaade detergents containing lemon juice and vinegar which they made themselves were better and more effective at cleaning oil and limescale than 3 of the leading commercially manufactured cleaning products on the Irish market. Therefore by using less chemicals in our cleaning and at home we can help the environment while saving money at the same time!

At the final on Friday 13^th February the boys were highly commended for their project. Pictured below are Ruaidhri and Frank.

Ardgillan Community College make debut
 
Another name was added to the canon of Leinster Rugby playing schools when Ardgillan College played it's first game this week.
It was no ordinary debut for the students as the opposition was a touring side,
Clwb Rygbi Crymych RFC,a Pembrokeshire side who feed Llanelli Scarlets.
Despite the gulf in standard and ability the commitment shown by the Balbriggan
based College meant that the game was competitive throughout. Hero of the hour went
to Gareth Green who finished off a thrilling handling move to sprint home for the
College's first ever score. Great credit goes to Conor Brennan and
Paul Shields,teachers at the College who have conceived the project,
and Leinster Rugby intern,Simon Lear,who has provided invaluable coaching
help since September.