Paul Corry – soccer Kevin Grogan - soccer Pat Taaffe Cheltenham Gold Cup winner on the horse Arkle and Tom Taaffe - jockey and trainer James McGee - tennis player Olympians Noel Purcell – water polo, rugby union, international rugby union referee and Olympian separately with Great Britain at Antwerp 1920 and with Ireland at Paris 1924. Peter Coghlan - Competed for Ireland in the Sydney 2000 Olympics in the 110 metres hurdles Cian O'Connor – Olympian (London 2012, Athens 2004 – equestrian) Barry Murphy – Olympian (London 2012 - swimming) Scott Flanigan - Competed in the 470 class at the London 2012 Olympic Games Gaelic sports Seán Boylan – former Meath GAA football manager, international rules coach and traditional medical herbalist Ger Brennan – Former Dublin and St.Vincents GAA player and member of the 2003 Senior Rugby team 1st XV Dr. Jack McCaffrey – GAA, 2015 FOTY and Clontarf GAA player Business and professional Garrett Kelleher – construction Michael Scott – architect who established Scott Tallon Walker Sam Stephenson – architect who established Stephenson, Gibney & Associates Alfred Edwin Jones – architect Broadcasting John Bowman – broadcaster Ian Dempsey – radio DJ with Today FM (Did not graduate) Henry Kelly – BBC and RTE television presenter, radio disc jockey and the person on whom the character Henry Sellers in Father Ted was based Sir Terry Wogan – BBC and RTE broadcaster Anton Savage – TV and Radio Host and PR advisor Peers Edward Pakenham, Lord Silchester Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford – historian Other Edward Joseph Garland - Canadian Member of Parliament for Alberta and diplomat Arthur Beveridge - British military officer and Military Cross Holder, Norwegian War Cross holder and honorary physician to George VI William Russell Grace - first Roman Catholic Mayor of New York City and founder of W. R. Grace and Company Notable faculty George Dempsey – model for Mr. Tate in Joyce's Portrait of an Artist and after whom a stream class "Dempsey" was named for a number of years Phil Conway - Former PE teacher who competed for Ireland at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the Shot Put Michael Morrison - photographer at the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp Peter McVerry - homelessness campaigner in Dublin John Hennig - worked as a teacher for a period during the 1940s See also List of Jesuit schools List of Jesuit sites