35,700 views of Santas message with Gaelscoil Eoghan Ui Thuairisc coming out top in Festive Family Experience Competition

35,700 views of Santas message with Gaelscoil Eoghan Ui Thuairisc coming out top in Festive Family Experience Competition

 Gaelscoil Eoghan Ui Thuairisc  Pubpil Grace Carroll

Gaelscoil Eoghan Ui Thuairisc are the overall winners in the Santas message competition which was run by Carlow County Council – Local Enterprise Office in association with Swans Electrical and Fairgreen Shopping Centre. The winning school takes away a prize of a €1,500 voucher for their school for electrical equipment along with a Tablet to raffle among the students in the school.

 

All other schools in the county were entered into a Draw and Our Ladys National School in Nurney was the winner of that prize of 5 X €100 vouchers for Fairgreen Shopping Centre.

 

Presenting the prizes to the winning schools Cathaoirleach of Carlow County Council, Cllr. Tom O’Neill said “I’m delighted with the response we had from the County Carlow Community with this competition with over 35,700 views of the schools videos from across the Globe”. The Cathaoirleach continued to say “I know 2020 has been a difficult year for all and we in Carlow County Council are keen to play our part in making the festive season as positive as possible with the Festive Family Experience Programme”. Tom continued to say “I’d really like to firstly thank Santa on behalf of the all the students in the primary schools across the County with the help of their principals , teachers and relatives who spread the message” , “secondly I’d like to thank Sean Swan from Swans Electrical and John Brophy from Fairgreen Shopping Centre for getting behind this project and finally to Pierce Kavanagh and Helen Ryan from the Local Enterprise Office who put the competition together and also co-ordinated the Festive Family Experience Programme”

 

Speaking about the Festive Family Experience Programme in 2020 , Kieran Comerford , Head of Enterprise with the Local Enterprise Office in Carlow County Council  said “For 2020 we had to redesign how we engaged with the community for the festive family experience and with this competition and the Light Up Carlow Competition , Look For Local Campaign and Shop Carlow Project which is currently rolling out we have been so pleased with the level of engagement from the communities across the County and in turn the support for local enterprises”. Concluding , Kieran said “while this competition is over the Light Up Carlow Photography Competition is open until 14th December 2020 at midnight entries can be e-mailed to enterprise@carlowcoco.ie which is for all the family”.

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For further information contact Kieran Comerford on 086/8252037 or e-mail kcomerford@carlowcoco.ie