pupil. In 2012, 83% of Leaving Certificate students at the school progressed to further or higher education courses. The school also had a reputation for the overuse of corporal punishment, with one pupil receiving 75 slaps of the leather for one offence. Past Pupils Union The school has a very active alumni organisation, Synge Street Past Pupils Union, which was formed in 1933. The PPU hosts an annual alumni dinner and raises money to provides grants to the school. Additionally, it helps administer a trust setup by a former past-pupil – Con Creedon – which provides grants to past pupils entering third-level education. When the programme began in 2006, it distributed grants to just 3 students, while by 2014 the number had grown to 82. This has helped raise the proportion of leaving cert students transitioning to third-level to 78% in 2014. Abuse allegations In 2005, a Brother at the school, Dan Doheny, was tried on charges of abuse which was alleged to have occurred when he was teaching at St Joseph's Industrial School, Tralee 30 years previously. In 2020, a former teacher at the primary school, Patrick Harte, was convicted of multiple indecent assault charges relating back to the 1960s and 1970s at the school. His appeal was subsequently dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal. Father Dominic Boland, a Capuchin priest who was a chaplain to the primary school was also convicted of similar offences and was named in chapter 32 of the Dublin diocesan Murphy report. Popular culture John Carney, a past pupil of the school, set his 2016 feature film Sing Street in and around the school. The film's protagonist, Conor/Cosmo, attends the school, forming a band with schoolmates and coming into conflict with the fictional Christian Brother school principal. The film's production notes make clear that the school and persons portrayed in the film are very different from the school as it is today. References External links School site Synge Street school Boys' schools in the Republic of Ireland Catholic primary schools in the Republic of Ireland Primary schools in Dublin (city) Congregation of Christian Brothers secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland Secondary schools in Dublin (city) Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 1864 establishments in Ireland Educational institutions established in 1864