O’Neill – Junior Group Winners 2016 – Gabriel Barat and Adrian Wolniak – Group Runners-up and Intel Travel Award Winners 2014 – Sufyan Huma and Haider Hussain – Intel Travel Award 2012 – Mark Kelly and Eric Doyle – Overall Winner. 2009 – Andrei Triffo – Best Individual Award and Intel Travel Award 2007 – Abdusalam Abubakar – Overall Winner. 2006 – Keith Florea, Adrian Chisa and Sandeep Sihag – Group Winners 2006 – Gohar Abbasi – Overall Runner Up 2005 – Michael Mulhall and Francis Wasser – Group Winners. 2005 – Louie Placides, Haniel Tsegburhan, Stefan Triffo – Junior group Category winners – Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences 2005 – Gohar Abbasi – Senior individual Category winner – Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences 2004 – Ronan Larkin – Overall Winner 2003 – Ronan Larkin – Category Prize Notable teaching staff As well as Jim Cooke, other notable past teachers of the school include Francis MacManus, three of whose pupils James Plunkett, Pearse Hutchinson and John Jordan, went on to be famous writers. Former TD Tony Gregory taught at the school in the 1960s and 70s. List of Superiors Traditionally, the Christian Brothers appointed a Brother Superior to head each monastery and manage any attached schools. This is a list of those known to have held the post at Synge Street: 1864–1867 Bro E P O’Flaherty 1867–1873 Bro H A Joy 1873–1876 Bro T R Ring 1876–1889 Bro P B O’Brien 1889–1894 Bro B L O’Neill 1894–1901 Bro W M O’Callaghan 1901–1903 Bro R B Fleming 1903–1905 Bro D D Madigan 1905–1913 Bro J T Hayes 1913–1919 Bro J A Burgess 1919–1923 Bro T J Stapleton 1923–1928 Bro J A Burgess 1928–1930 Bro T M Lennane 1930–1936 Bro J L Burke 1936–1942 Bro E F Lonergan 1942–1948 Bro P S Walsh 1948–1954 Bro J K Mulhall 1954–1956 Bro J F Dowling 1956–1962 Bro M F O’Mahoney 1962–1968 Bro J D Fegan 1968–1972 Bro F B Donovan 1973–1976 Bro P Tynan 1977–1982 Bro P B Cripps Notable past pupils Media and the arts Eamonn Andrews, television presenter Noel Andrews, RTÉ boxing commentator Deaglán de Bréadún, Irish Times journalist Gay Byrne, television and radio presenter John Carney, film director Don Cockburn, newsreader John Connolly, author Donal Donnelly, actor John Earle, musician Louis Elliman, past owner of the Gaiety Theatre and Theatre Royal Charles B. Fitzsimons, actor, and brother of Maureen O'Hara Jarlath