The final young entrepreneur awards

May 26, 2009 12:36 am

 

 

 

I would really love to (but obviously cannot) make awards to each and ever participant in the CEB sponsored Young Entrepreneurs competition – they are, in my book, winners all. So to conclude my series of posts on the event I will have to be content instead to make a brief but honourable mention of some of them.

 

Aisling Murphy and Barry Moran from Boyne Community School, Trim, County Meath, are first up for producing their Easy Cook Cookery Book – Possible Celebrity Chefs of the future?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next up come the boys from Roscommon CBS – Eamonn Deane and Kevin Hannon who produced a superbly crafted wooden toy for adults and children alike. The Rossies get a mention in their own right, but also for bringing back so many happy memories because Roscommon CBS is my old Alma Mater.  I remember it with pride and affection and still feel proud to have worn the jersey! In doing so I remember too people like Brother Horgan, one of the greatest gentlemen I have ever met, Brother Dwyer, Brother Clarke and so many others that gave so selflessly to me and so many others of my generation. Christian Brothers are much vilified at present and it is easy to forget our debt to them and their positive contribution to Irish society. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next to get an honourable mention, for reminding us how important the Europesn Union continues to be in our society, are Blanaid O’Reilly, Ailish Crowe, Lorna Maloney-Derham, Niamh Feehan and Shauna Madden from Loreto College, Cavan. They learned so much about the EU themselves that they were able to develop an educational package on the subject targeted at primary school children! Very impressive!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By way of example of the sheer quality of what some of our Young Entrepreneurs can produce my next photograph is of a stained glass piece produced by Zara Hill, the representative of Presentation Secondary School, Clonmel, County Tipperary in the Intermediate Category. Superb!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My final commendation goes  to Martin McEntee, Brian O’Reilly, Darren Reilly, Charlotte Cully and Michaela McGovern for reminding us that it is possible to be “Green” in small things as well as large, with Bird Bungalows, which involves the manufactue and sale of bird nesting boxes. These representatives of Moyne Community College, which serves large parts of Counties Longford, Cavan and Leitrim are worthy inheritors of a proud educational heritage. Moyne once boasted a Latin School which in its day was so successful that the area around boasted more priests and bishops per capita than anywhere else in Ireland!

 

Today they just produce entrepreneurs!