This is a top quality school, that caters for all interests. Although a bit expensive, it is a…read moreplace to consider. The school crest is made up of four pictures; a book which represents academics; a football which represents sports; a paintbrush to represent the arts and a musical instrument to represent music. The school has great success in all of these areas. Alex has a history of good academic results, with many previous pupils having achieved 600 points in the leaving, and many more achieveing over 500. But it's not just results that count in Alex. The school regularly has people competing in the Young Scientist, debating competitions, mathlete competitions, Model United Nations etc. It prides itself in achieveing academic success. In terms of sports, Alex do very well. The Senior hockey team has won 2 Senior cups in three years and was runner up this year. All other levels continue this success, the Junior As won last year, the !st years were runners up this year. The u16 soccer team reached the ALll- Ireland final where they were narrowly beaten. Cricket, basketball, tennis and athletics all have great success also. The art department prides itself on producing budding artists. The pupils ahieve excellent results in the state exams and many have gone on to getting places in top art schools. One of the teachers is the artist Jane Bowe. There is a large music department, with twenty seven full and part-time teachers. The instruments taught range from the piano to the basson. Pupils always achieve high results in exams. This school really caters for all interests.

St Fintan's High School is my alma mater. Between the years of 1999 and 2005, I attended from 9.15…read moreto 4.00 Monday to Thursday and off at 3.15 on Fridays. I wasn't absolutely crazy about the place. Now I'm not one of those sensitive souls who are isolated and withdrawn in school but then take a degree in the humanities and blossom in college, nothing like that. It was just really strict, and not strict in a kind of conducive to scholarly atmosphere way, but in loads of stupid little ways. Let me illustrate this with an example. You couldn't wear your hair long. What were they worried about, if we grew our hair long that the place would turn into some sort of radical free-love commune? As you can witness from my profile pictures, the first thing that I did upon leaving school was to grow my hair like a good thing, and I haven't turned into a depraved, debauched... Well, I'm not sure the long hair played any sort of decisive factor, anyway. And although you couldn't grow your hair long, you couldn't have it too short, either. What was that in aid of? They had all sorts of petty rules like that. And the school has a reputation for being very good academically, but i go six year and still no write good. Seriously though, the place was only OK-ish, nothing really to write home about. Still, there are the fond memories of scraped knees and spelling bees and all that, but if I had a couple of spotty adolescent sons, I wouldn't be sending them to Fintan's.