The winners of our annual Cartoon Challenge ‘as Gaeilge’ for secondary students will be announced with a special presentation at Coláiste Bhaile Chláir next Thursday.

Well done to the second year students who submitted cartoons for our ‘Cartoon Challenge’ after completing two workshops with Gaeltacht an Eachréidh and visiting the exhibitions in Galway city centre during last month’s Galway Cartoon Festival.

Caoimhe Lavelle, from Dublin, led four cartoon workshops ‘as Gaeilge’ with pupils from Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, Bun Scoil Bhaile Chláir, and Scoil Naomh Breandán, Eanach Dhún, during the six day festival at the start of October.

A fluent Gaeilgeoir, Caoimhe has been working with Gaeltacht an Eachréidh for the past few years.

She brings joy and a love of cartooning to the children and teenagers with workshops which are fully ‘as Gaeilge’.

The secondary students at Coláiste Bhaile Chláir were given two weeks to come up with their own cartoons and submitted them to teacher John Cooke before the Halloween holidays.

The Language Planning Officer, Ciaran Tierney, met with Margaret Nolan and Richard Chapman from the festival to pick the winners during the midterm break and the winners will be announced at the school on Thursday, November 19.

Thanks to Caoimhe for travelling from Dublin for the workshops and múínteoir John for helping us to organise the challenge this year.

The ‘Cartoon Challenge’ has become an annual event for Gaeltacht an Eachréidh and the judges at Galway Cartoon Festival are looking forward to meeting the winners. Vouchers worth €100, €50, and €25 will be given to the three winners next week.

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