Welcome

Boys' Comprehensive School - Ballymun

For reasons lost in the mists of educational and social history, our school is unique. We were the first urban"greenfields" comprehensive school and after we were established they broke the mould!. 
We like to think we are unique in other ways too:

• We feel we are unique in the quality of educational service we offer to a community in Ballymun that deserves nothing but the best.

• We know we are unique in delivering the largest independent adult education programme in the country.

• We are unique in being a seed bed for educational leadership.  At the last count, we reckon twenty two principals and deputy principals learned their profession in the Comprehensives.

• We are unique in housing the country's most successful third level support programme - BITE.                                              

There are many other unique aspects to our school ranging from the Christmas Show to the variety of programmes on offer.  Some of these will become clearer as you browse through these pages.

If you detect a note of pride, you are certainly right.   That is not to say that the daily challenge for staff and students is not a demanding and complex one.  We are simply proud of the way we rise to that challenge.

Beidh failte roimh cuairteoír chuig an ionad seo.   Beidh áthas orainn teagmhail a dhéanamh libh agus ceist ar bith a freagairt.   Beir bua agus beannacht ó Scoil Chuimsitheach na mBuachaillí.

I invite you to read through our material and to get in touch if the fancy takes you.  We would love to hear from you.

Greetings and best wishes.

Frank Byrne                                                                             (Principal)       

Welcome from the Principal

to the parents of 1st Year Pupils 2001-'02   

When you send your son to school at the Comprehensive, you do much more than simply bid him goodbye when he walks out the door with his bag and his uniform .

In a manner of speaking you send him with your shared hopes and dreams and ambitions.  These can be little dreams like ''getting on'' or ''being happy'' or big ambitions like playing for Ireland or going to college.  You make us partners in these hopes.  You trust us to help along the way.  This is the privilege you give us and the challenge you set for us.

Our ambition is to be worthy of that privilege and that challenge.  It is to help in the shaping of young minds and young lives.  No matter how much patience and energy is required, there is no more important job than education.  We have learned over the years that it is not a job we can do alone.  That is why more and more , we try to create a partnership with parents.  In that way we can share a vision of the future for your boy.

We believe you do a good job.  We believe we do a good job.  We are proud of our school and of our record.  We believe that you can come to share that pride.  Thank you for choosing the Comprehensive.

Frank Byrne                                                                             (Principal)