{{Short description|School in Dublin, Ireland}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=April 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox school | name = Templeogue College CSSP | native_name = Coláiste Theach Mealóg | logo = | motto = {{lang|la|In virtute scientia}} | motto_translation = Education rooted in values<ref name="WS"/> | established = {{start date and age|1967}} | location = Templeville Road, Templeogue, Dublin 6W. | province = Leinster | country = Ireland | coordinates = {{coord|53.3044|-6.3118|region:IE-D_type:edu|display=inline,title}} | enrollment = 675 | principal = Ciarán Dowling<ref name="WS"/> | religious_affiliation = {{ubl | Catholic Church | Holy Ghost Fathers }} | colours = Red, white and blue | sports = Rugby, Gaelic football, association football, basketball, badminton | website = {{URL|http://templeoguecollege.ie}} }}
'''Templeogue College C.S.Sp''' is a boys' voluntary secondary school in the suburb of Templeogue, Dublin in Ireland. It was founded in 1966 and is run by the Holy Ghost Fathers (Spiritans), a Roman Catholic religious institute. The motto of the school is {{lang|la|in virtute scientia}} ('education rooted in values').<ref name="WS">{{cite web|url = https://templeoguecollege.ie/page/Principals-Welcome/85479/Index.html | website = templeoguecollege.ie | title = Templeogue College C.S.Sp - Principal's Welcome | date = | accessdate = 29 May 2026 }}</ref> As of December 2024, there were 675 pupils enrolled in the school.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.gov.ie/en/directory/page/t68k4j-fj985m- | publisher = Department of Education | website = gov.ie | title = Directory Page - Templeogue College | accessdate = 23 January 2025 | date= 18 December 2024 }}</ref> The school's principal is Ciarán Dowling.<ref name="WS"/>
==History== Templeogue College was founded in September 1966.<ref>{{cite book | title = Templeogue College C.S.Sp. : Golden Jubilee 1966-2016 | editor-first1 = Aoife | editor-last1 = O'Donnell | editor-first2 = Lisa | editor-last2 = O'Byrne | editor-first3 = Kelly | editor-last3 = Hand | url = https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000873870 | via = catalogue.nli.ie | accessdate = 24 January 2025 | quote = In September 1966, Templeogue College, a Catholic secondary school, opened its doors for the education of boys living in Templeogue and the surrounding areas}}</ref> It has been historically associated with the Holy Ghost Fathers (the Spiritans),<ref>{{cite web|url = https://templeoguecollege.ie/page/About-Us/168289/Index.html | website = templeoguecollege.ie | publisher = Templeogue College C.S.Sp | title = About Us | accessdate = 24 January 2025 | quote = Our Legacy: Founded in 1966 by the Spiritans }}</ref> and the Spiritan Education Trust remains the patron of the school.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.spiritaneducation.ie/ethos/spiritan/ | website = spiritaneducation.ie | publisher = Spiritan Education Trust | title = Spiritan Heritage | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/single-manager-appointed-to-templeogue-college-after-four-board-members-resign/a1551779411.html | work = Irish Independent | first = Katherine | last = Donnelly | title = Single manager appointed to Templeogue College after four board members resign | date = 24 August 2023 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref>
At the time of the school's establishment, in 1966, its grounds contained a priests' residence, gymnasium and the main school building.<ref name="darrenmurray">{{cite web|url = https://darrenmurrayblog.wordpress.com/foundation-of-templeogue-college-2/ | website = darrenmurrayblog.wordpress.com | title = Foundation of Templeogue College | first = Darren | last = Murray | date = 19 October 2016 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref> The school grew following the introduction of free secondary education in Ireland in 1967, and a swimming pool was opened.<ref name="darrenmurray"/> In the 1990s, additional classrooms, canteen facilities and a study hall were added.<ref name="darrenmurray"/>
==Sport== The school participates in sports including rugby union, basketball, football, athletics, and badminton.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://templeoguecollege.ie/Page/Sport/91849/Index.html |title=Sport |website = templeoguecollege.ie |publisher=Templeogue College C.S.Sp|language=English|access-date= 24 January 2025 }}</ref>
The Templeogue College rugby team, whose colours are red and blue, reached the final of the Leinster Schools Junior Cup in 1980 and in 1985.<ref name="rugby">{{Cite web|url=http://templeoguecollege.ie/Page/Rugby/94397/Index.html |title=Rugby|publisher=Templeogue College C.S.Sp| website = templeoguecollege.ie |language=English|access-date=2020-04-19|archive-date=19 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919003017/http://templeoguecollege.ie/page/Rugby/94397/Index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1980 final, the school lost 0-4 to Blackrock College of Dublin and, in the 1985 final, the school lost 0-14 to Presentation College of Bray, County Wicklow.
In 2002, the school rugby team visited South Africa, the first state school in Ireland to do so. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/planet-rugby-1.500530|title=Planet Rugby|last=Thornley|first=Gerry|website=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref> In 2003, the school won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior League. Also in rugby, the school has won a number of McMullen Shield competitions.<ref name="rugby" />
==Controversies== In early 2024, a former teacher raised a case against the school with the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Eoin |date=2024-02-27 |title=Former teacher at Dublin school claims penalisation after raising discipline concerns |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/former-teacher-at-dublin-school-claims-penalisation-after-raising-discipline-concerns-6311527-Feb2024/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=TheJournal.ie |language=en}}</ref> The details of the complaint were reportedly refuted by the then principal who made "counter claims".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Templeogue College principal did not retaliate against teacher for raising grievance, WRC to be told |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/02/29/templeogue-college-principal-did-not-retaliate-against-teacher-for-raising-grievance-wrc-to-be-told/ | first = Eoin | last = Reynolds |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref> In the WRC testimony, where it was alleged that Tipp-Ex had been used to "doctor" the details of a teacher's contract, the then principal was reputedly described by the complainant as a "corridor angel and office devil".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-25 |title=Templeogue College principal branded 'corridor angel and office devil' by ex-teacher at workplace tribunal |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/templeogue-college-principal-branded-corridor-angel-and-office-devil-by-ex-teacher-at-workplace-tribunal/a1917665835.html |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=Irish Independent |language=en}}</ref> At the conclusion of the WRC process, Templeogue College was ordered to pay approximately €40,000 to the teacher who had been subject to "multiple and sustained acts of penalisation".<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/06/24/templeogue-college-to-pay-nearly-40000-to-teacher-subjected-to-multiple-and-sustained-acts-of-penalisation/ | work = Irish Times | first = Steven | last = Bourke | title = Templeogue College to pay nearly €40,000 to teacher subjected to 'multiple and sustained acts of penalisation' | date = 24 June 2024 }}</ref> The principal subsequently stepped down from her role.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
An RTÉ report, from July 2024, suggested that four teachers had taken employment rights claims against the school in the preceding two years.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0716/1460217-templeogue-wrc/ | website = rte.ie | title = Templeogue College reaches 'compromise' with fourth teacher to pursue claim in two years | date = 16 July 2024 | accessdate = 23 January 2025 | quote = }}</ref>
In mid-2024, an article in that ''TheJournal.ie'' stated that close to "300 former pupils report[ed] abuse by clergy and lay staff at Spiritan schools".<ref name="thejournal">{{Cite web |last=Fitzgerald |first=Cormac |date=2024-06-06 |title=Close to 300 former pupils report abuse by clergy and lay staff at Spiritan schools |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/blackrock-college-abuse-6400355-Jun2024/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=TheJournal.ie |language=en}}</ref> These schools reportedly included Templeogue College as well as Blackrock College, Willow Park and Rockwell College.<ref name="thejournal"/>
==Alumni== {{See also|Category:People educated at Templeogue College}} thumb|upright|Dublin footballer Denis Bastick, Templeogue past pupil * Carl Mullan, Irish radio presenter{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} * Denis Bastick, Gaelic footballer, Dublin inter-county team<ref name="gaa">{{cite web|url = http://templeoguecollege.ie/page/GAA/95034/Index.html | website = templeoguecollege.ie | publisher = Templeogue College | title = GAA | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20240927011214/http://templeoguecollege.ie/page/GAA/95034/Index.html| archivedate = 27 September 2024 }}</ref> * Lorcan Dempsey, vice president and chief strategist of OCLC{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} * Diarmuid Gavin, gardener and TV personality<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passed-failed-an-education-in-the-life-of-diarmuid-gavin-gardening-presenter-and-designer-947917.html | work = The Independent (UK) | first = Jonathan | last = Sale | title = Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Diarmuid Gavin, gardening presenter and designer | date = 2 October 2008 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref> * Brendan Hyland, swimmer<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.echo.ie/inspiring-the-future-brendan-hyland/ | website = echo.ie | title = Inspiring the future: Brendan Hyland | first = Hayden | last = Moore | date = 5 November 2021 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref> * Morgan Kelly, professor of Economics at UCD<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/04/13/profile-of-morgan-kelly/ | title = Profile of Morgan Kelly | first1 = Karl | last1 = Whelan | website = IrishEconomy.ie | date = 2010-04-13 | access-date = 1 October 2010 | archive-date = 9 November 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101109200958/http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2010/04/13/profile-of-morgan-kelly/ | url-status = live }}</ref> * Albert Manifold, Irish business executive{{fact|date=May 2026}} * Dave McSharry, Connacht rugby union player<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/connacht-rugby/robbies-success-is-a-confidence-boost-for-all-of-us/31079992.html | work = Irish Independent | title = 'Robbie's success is a confidence boost for all of us' | first = Daragh | last = Small | date = 20 March 2015 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 | quote = McSharry went to Templeogue College }}</ref> * Eoghan O'Gara, Gaelic footballer, Dublin inter-county team<ref name="gaa"/> * Malcolm O'Kelly, former Irish international rugby union player<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.joe.ie/sport/schools-rugby-pro-files-malcolm-okelly-44733 | website = joe.ie | first = Conor | last = Heneghan | title = Schools rugby PRO-files: Malcolm O'Kelly | date = 6 February 2013 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref> * Dara O'Shea, footballer with West Bromwich Albion<ref name="soccer">{{cite web|url = http://templeoguecollege.ie/News/Stevens-and-OShea-line-out-for-Ireland/126884/Index.html | website = templeoguecollege.ie | publisher = Templeogue College | title = Stevens and O'Shea line out for Ireland | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref> * Eric O'Sullivan, Ulster rugby union player<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/champions-cup/osullivans-route-to-professional-ranks-shows-the-value-of-allowing-for-late-developers/37614457.html | work = Irish Independent | title = O'Sullivan's route to professional ranks shows the value of allowing for late developers | first = Cian | last = Tracey | date = 11 December 2018 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 }}</ref> * Mick Pyro, lead singer of the band Republic of Loose<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/pyro-s-technical-hitch-first-time-around-1.1038835 | work = Irish Times | title = Pyro's technical hitch first time around | first = Louise | last = Holden | date = 16 August 2006 | accessdate = 24 January 2025 | quote = I left Templeogue College with its sport and discipline and uniform and went to Stratford in Rathgar }}</ref> * Rob Rogers, League of Ireland referee{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} * Rob Smith, musician{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} * Enda Stevens, footballer with Sheffield United<ref name="soccer"/>
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.templeoguecollege.ie}}
{{Spiritan secondary schools in Ireland}} {{Schools and colleges in County Dublin}}
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