(TD).McDonald was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), from 2004 to 2009 representing the Dublin constituency (Leaving Certificate class of 1988). On the 19th Oct 2016, The Notre Dame Schools Trust announced that the school would close, due to a lack of funding, and outstanding debts. The Department of Education acquired the Notre Dame campus and will use it for school purposes in the future. Former school A De La Salle Preparatory School, now closed, was located in Camberley House (also known as Inish More or Inish Ealga) on the Churchtown Road Upper. A previous owner was the widow of Éamonn Ceannt, one of the signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Camberley House was bought for the De La Salle boys' school and later developed as the preparatory school when the secondary school moved to its present location. Health Mount Carmel Community Hospital, which stands on a 4.9-acre site on Braemor Park, re-opened as a short-stay nursing home in September 2015. Politics Churchtown is part of the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dublin Rathdown. Although most of Churchtown is part of the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council area, because the parish originated from Rathfarnam Parish, many of the historical aspects can be viewed at the South Dublin County Council website Ice Cream Churchtown was home to the HB Dairy. HB Ice Cream was named after the Hughes Brothers dairy and was produced at Hazelbrook Farm, across the road from the Good Shepherd national school. Braemor Rooms Until the late 1980s, the County Club pub on the Churchtown Road Upper had a cabaret attached called the Braemor Rooms.The Dubliners had a residency every August and Guy Mitchell also played there. The owners of the County Club however decided to change the purpose to a disco/nightclub, and changed the name from 'The Braemor Rooms' to 'Faces'. This eventually led to the demise of the pub and club. It was developed in 2018 by The Press Up Group trading as a restaurant called Union Cafe. Other pubs in the area are Churchtown Stores, The Bottle Tower and The Glenside. People Seán Lemass, Fianna Fáil politician and third Taoiseach of Ireland from 1959 until 1966. Lemass was first elected as a Sinn Féin TD for the Dublin South constituency in a by-election in 1924. John Millington Synge was born in Newtown Villas, off Braemor Road, and lived here until his family moved to