Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh
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Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh (English: College of the Holy Spirit) is a voluntary secondary school for boys run under the jurisdiction and patronage of the Presentation Brothers in Bishopstown, County Cork, Ireland.
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[edit] History
The school was founded by the Presentation Brothers in a house on the Model Farm Road in 1964. The Presentation Brothers withdrew from direct management in 1992 and since that time they have been represented on the Board of Management[1].
In 2002, four of the top eight Leaving Cert students in the country came from Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh and in the three years preceding this , two of the Graduates of the Year at UCC have been past pupils of the school.
[edit] Extra-curricular activities
The school plays basketball, Gaelic football, and hurling, traditionally drawing on the hinterland of Bishopstown GAA club. In addition, the school has a soccer team, and a mountaineering club which was the first and is the largest school mountaineering club in ireland. The school's soccer teams have won the All-Ireland at every age group, the latest coming in 2008, when the under-14s triumphed, and subsequently travelled to Glasgow, Scotland, to compete in the SAFIB Inter Schools Tournament, where they completed the weekend in third place, the highest finishing under-14 team because the rest were under-15.
[edit] Debating
The debating teams have had many victories through the years, including sixteen Munster titles and seven All-Ireland titles. In 1997 they were the first Irish school to win the English Speaking Union School's Mace.[citation needed]
[edit] Alumni
- Rubyhorse; Band formed at the school who went on to international success. Members included alumni David Farrell, Joe Philpott, Declan Lucey, Owen Fegan, and Colum Young.
- Owen Fegan; Musician, artist and photographer. Former member of Rubyhorse.
- John Spillane; musician.
- Louis de Paor; poet and academic.
- Jimmy Barry-Murphy; Cork GAA hurling and Gaelic football player and manager.
- Brendan O'Connor; journalist, musician, satirist and television personality.
- Philip King; musician, broadcaster and film maker.
- Neal Horgan; Cork City F.C. player.
- Michael Shields; Cork GAA Gaelic football player, former Carlton Blues AFL player.
- Shane O'Neill; Cork hurling player
- Timmy Ryan; professional rugby player
- Dave Ryan; professional rugby player
- Dave Hannigan; journalist and author
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