C.B.C. Monkstown

C.B.C. Monkstown

Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park (or C.B.C. Monkstown Park) is a voluntary fee-paying Catholic school and Independent Junior school, founded in 1856 in Monkstown, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland. The school fees are approximately €4,700 per annum. The college arrived at Monkstown Park in 1950 from Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire via a short stint on Tivoli Road. This is the 60th academic year of existence at Monkstown Park, the 154th overall.

The school motto is "Certa Bonum Certamen" or "fight the good fight" and the school colours are red, black and yellow. Monkstown has a sister school in Cork, Christians (CBC Cork) also founded by the Christian Brothers, both schools share the same colours of red, yellow and black and other traditions such as the motto. Recently Monkstown was 'twinned' with St. Patrick's College in Sri Lanka.

The school is to be refurbished in the summer of 2012, with the commencement of a new 12 classroom building in Autumn 2012. Dr.Gerry Berry assumed the role of principal in September 2009.

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