2002, 2004) Leinster Schools Vinnie Murray Cup – 2003, 2005, 2007, 2017 (Runners Up: 2006, 2010) Leinster Schools Senior Thirds League – 1995 (Runners Up: 2008) Leinster Schools Senior Fourths League – 1991, 1993 (Runners Up: 2006, 2013) All Ireland Schools Sevens – 1982 Leinster Schools Rugby Junior League – 1998, 2005, 2012 (Runners up: 1997, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015) Powerarde Leinster Rugby School of the Year – 2008 Athletics The school is also involved in athletics and Cross Country competitions. The school consistently produces medalists at All Ireland, Leinster, East Leinster and Edmund Rice Games level, both individual and at team level. The school has an athletics pavilion with a triple and high jump track, a pole vault track, a discus facility and a hammer net. Major Team Athletics Honours All Ireland College of Science Cup (Top Overall school in Ireland) – 1978 Leinster Schools' Athletics Senior Shield Winners (Top Overall School) – 1976, 1977, 1978, 1994 All Ireland President's Shield (Second ranked school in Ireland) – 1955, 2007 Other sports Other sports taken include golf, swimming, tennis, sailing, orienteering, and squash. Golf is played in Leopardstown Golf Course and the school enters teams every year at provincial level. There are two tennis courts, neither of which have nets or chalk outlines, and the school has used Monkstown Tennis Club opposite the school. The school tennis team reached the semifinals of the Leinster Championships in 2009. Swimming is undertaken at Blue Pool leisure center, Monkstown. The school uses the facilities at Dún Laoghaire for sailing which is a part of the Transition year programme. The school came third in the Leinster Schools Sailing Championships in 2009. Cricket An effort in start a cricket team in Monkstown in the early 1950s proved to be difficult. The efforts to start a cricket team was chronicled on the March 27 edition of RTÉ's Sunday Miscellany as "Cricket in the Borough" by past pupil Louis Brennan. A revival of the sport within the school occurred in 2002 when a team was formed playing 3 games against Mount Anville, King's Hospital and Blackrock College. Notable alumni The Past Pupils Union of the Christian Brothers College, Monkstown and Dún Laoghaire has been active since the mid-1950s. The CBC Monkstown PPU hosts several annual events. Notable past pupils from the Dún Laoghaire and Monkstown schools include: Arts and entertainment Ronnie Drew, musician, founded The