Carrick-on-Suir Lions Club's Peace Poster art contest attracted over 200 entries
The overall winner was Hollie Hearne from Piltown National School near Carrick-on-Suir
A student from Piltown National School was the overall winner of Carrick-on-Suir Lions Club’s annual Peace Poster art competition.
Hollie Hearne received her prize at Carrick Lions Club’s Young Ambassador and Peace Poster competitions awards ceremony in the Nano Nagle Community Resource Centre in Carrick-on-Suir
Her peace poster beat off competition from over 200 entries from 12 primary schools in Carrick-on-Suir and surrounding districts to win the award. Peace Without Limits was the theme of the art competition.
Hollie’s poster will now be entered in the Lions Clubs’ national Peace Poster competition.
The Peace Poster entries were judged by two local artists, Kathleen Farrell and Stephen Power helped by Carrick-on-Suir Lions Club Peace Poster Officers Pat Murphy and Margaret Doyle.
Carrick Lions Club congratulated Holly and wished her the best of luck in the next stage of the competition. The Club also congratulated all the individual school prize winners in the competition listed below:
Peace Poster Art Contest winners: Ballyneale NS: Rachel Walsh; Clonea Power NS: Sylvia Coughlan; Crehana NS: Aoibhin Ryan; Gaelscoil: Aoibhinn Stuart; Grangemockler NS: Katie Walsh; Newtown Upper NS Maria Boland; Owning NS: Lucie Leveque Little; Portlaw NS: Nina Szeloch; Presentation NS: Abigail Liju; Rathgormack NS: Pendle Langford; Templeorum NS: Ciara Holden. Overall winner, Hollie Hearne, Piltown NS.