Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh
Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh is a voluntary secondary school for boys run under the jurisdiction and patronage of the Presentation Brothers Cork City, Ireland.HistoryThe school was founded by the Presentation Brothers in 1972. The Presentation Brothers withdrew from direct management in 1992 and since that time they have been represented on the Board of Management.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.Extra-curricular activitiesThe school plays basketball, Gaelic football, and hurling. 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 traveled 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. The school is located adjacent to Highfield RFC where many pupils play rugby.The school has had success in Ireland's Young Scientist and Technology exhibition, among many successful and diverse projects undertaken by CSN pupils was the 1998 overall winner "The Mathematics of Monopoly" by Raphael Hurley.