Sandymount in 1901. Monkstown (Dublin) Boxing Club was founded in 2004, their gym is situated in the newly built Mounttown Community Centre in Fitzgerald Park, in the Monkstown Farm Area. Farm Utd Football Club was formed in 1935, and uses part of the Monkstown Community Centre as its dressing rooms. Monkstown also has a Brazilian jiu-jitsu club Ribeiro Jiu Jitsu Ireland. Their gym is situated in the Mounttown Industrial Estate. A hockey club, Monkstown Hockey Club, is based in the Rathdown School. Culture Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, an organisation promoting Irish culture (particularly Irish traditional music), has its headquarters in Monkstown, as does BirdWatch Ireland. Monkstown had for decades a puppet theatre, the Lambert Puppet Theatre, a family-run business, which for many years hosted an international puppet festival. It also used to appear on national television, for RTÉ. It closed some time after a fire. There are several references to Monkstown and its wealthy residents in the Ross O'Carroll Kelly series. Education A multi-denominational primary school, Monkstown Educate Together National School (METNS), a fee-paying junior and senior school Monkstown Park Junior School and CBC Monkstown Park, and Holy Family National School are located in the Monkstown area. A Gaelscoil is also located in Monkstown, Scoil Lorcáin, teaching all classes through Irish. St. Oliver Plunkett N.S is a school for children with a Specific Learning Difficulty (SLD). This school caters for children from a wide catchment area. Christian Brother's College is based on the old estate of Charles Haliday at Monkstown Park. It consists of two schools; an Independent preparatory school with 200 students and a fee-paying secondary school with more than 500 students. CBC caters for boys from junior infants through the sixth year. The college recently completed a major development which saw existing buildings upgraded and a new extension built. Representation Monkstown is part of the Dáil Éireann constituency of Dún Laoghaire. Amenities Monkstown has a number of restaurants, cafés and pubs which include Goggins Pub, FXBs The Pub, That's Amore, Bresson Restaurant, Siobheal Nic Eochaidh, and Avoca Food Market. Family-owned shops and businesses in the area include Hewett Newsagents, Cosgrove's Pharmacy and the Carrick Hoover Centre. People D. J. Carey, hurler Nuala Carey, weather presenter Tim Pat Coogan, writer Cathy Davey, Irish singer-songwriter grew up in Monkstown Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter Helen Dillon (b.1940), gardener who moved from Ranelagh in 2016 The Edge, guitarist of U2 Howard Grubb (1844–31)