CBS Sexton Street

CBS Sexton Street is a Christian Brothers Secondary School located in Limerick, Ireland. Past students include J. P. McManus, Karl Spain, Diarmuid Scully and Ciaran MacMathuna. The school is also renowned for hosting the J. P. McManus Scholarship Awards. The school has approximately 500 students. The current principal is Tom Prendergast,after the recent retirement of Noel Earlie and the current vice principal is Elizabeth Quinn.The school recently won the senior boys FAI All Ireland soccer championship in 2007 and 2008 and in 2012, lost the final against St. Aidans, Cork

History

Colaiste Mhichil was founded by Edmund Rice, a Christian Brother, to provide education for boys in Limerick city. The school is administrated by a Board of Management. The Christian Brothers remain the trustees of the school.

Notable Students

• Ned Daly, born in 1891 the son of Fenian Edward Daly, he was also the nephew of John Daly who was a leading member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the brother in law of Tom Clarke (Irish Republican). Daly was educated by the Presentation Sisters and then the Christian Brothers on Sexton Street. Later he served as commandant of Dublin's 1st battalion in the Easter Rising. He was executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol on 4 May 1916. He is remembered in the Arbour Hill Memorial Park in Dublin.
• John Philip Holland, born in Liscannor, County Clare in 1841, Holland began his studies at Sexton Street in 1853. He is perhaps best known to history as the developer of the first submarines to be commissioned by both the U.S. Navy and Royal Navy. Holland died in 1914 having devoted 57 years of his life to working with submersibles. He is interred at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa, New Jersey.
• There are currently no memorials in the school for these two men despite their contributions to Irish and International history respectively.

Notable Teachers

• Pat Fleury, renowned hurler.
• Willie Moore, renowned hurler.