Coleraine Academical Institution
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Coleraine Academical Institution, also known as CAI or Coleraine Inst, is an all boys voluntary grammar school in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
CAI was founded in 1860, and is still on its original site just off the Castlerock Road. Enrollment peaked at 1,100 in the 1970s, but currently stands at around 700. It was originally a boarding school until the department closed in 1999.[1]
The school's grounds run to the west bank of the River Bann, which facilitates a successful school rowing team. The current headmaster (as of September 2007) is Dr. David Carruthers, BSc PhD, previously the Head of Mathematics at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
CAI is a nine times winner of the Ulster Schools Cup, the world's second oldest rugby competition. The school have competed in every year since 1876.
Team FUGA from the school competed in the F1 In Schools competition, and won the international finals in 2007.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Air Marshal Sir George Beamish[1]
- Mark Carruthers, TV presenter/personality
- James Nesbitt, film and TV actor
- Celebrity divorce lawyer James Stewart
- Railway historian J.R.L. Currie (aka "Russell Currie")
- Rugby union players Jonny Bell and Andrew Trimble
- Sir Dawson Bates, 1st Baronet, politician
- David Burnside, former Ulster Unionist Party M.P.
- Coleraine FC footballers Davy Patton, Stuart Clanachan and Howard Beverland
- Former Northern Ireland International footballer Barry Hunter
- 2004 Olympian rower Alan Campbell[2]
- 2007 World Champion rower Richard Chambers.[3]
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