Sport
The school's sports facilities consist of two hockey pitches, two rugby pitches, two hard tennis courts, an outdoor basketball court, an indoor sports hall, and a fitness centre. The major winter sports are rugby, basketball and hockey; the major summer sports are tennis, athletics and cricket.
The year 2012 marks ninety years since St. Andrew's last won the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup, a feat they achieved four times in total, making the school the seventh most successful in the Cup's history.
St. Andrew's cricket team won the Leinster Senior School's Cup in 2011.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
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—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)