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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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.
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.
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.