Synge Street CBS

Synge Street CBS is a Christian Brothers School located on Synge Street, in Dublin 8, Ireland. It was founded in 1864. It has a particularly notable history of success in the Young Scientist competition, with former teacher Jim Cooke mentoring multiple winning student groups over many years.

The school also has a proud history playing soccer and producing soccer players of note.

The school

"Synger", as the school is known colloquially, consists of two distinct schools. The primary section caters for boys from seven to twelve years and is called Sancta Maria CBS. It opened in 1954. The secondary school is officially known as St Paul's Secondary School, Heytesbury Street. The present building replaced a row of houses, used for class-rooms, and was opened in the late 1960s: it was extended in the 1980s.

Sports

The school has produced many great soccer, gaelic football, hurling and judo teams. It won its first soccer trophy - the Leinster Junior School's Cup - in 1977, and until recently had a very strong under 18's soccer team winning Leinster Trophies and representing the school in many tournaments including the Schools World Cup in Israel, which Synge Street represented Ireland in 1993. They finished the competition in sixth place and took the fair play award. On the way to the Leinster trophy, the school beat other Dublin schools such as Drimnagh Castle. They then went on to win an all Ireland competition before representing Ireland in the school's world cup in 1993. The school has a very strong soccer tradition producing many great players including Ireland international, Andy Reid and Drogheda United, former Celtic goalkeeper Paul Skinner, Wolves Player Mark Sammon Billy Whelan one of the Busby Babes who died in the Munich air disaster and Tommy Hamilton, the Irish international and Shamrock Rovers stalwart.