Westmeath students win top prizes in texaco art competitio
Seven Westmeath students have won top prizes in this year’s 61st Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
In the 12-13 years age category, first prize of €350 went to 13-years old Nicole Forster, a pupil at Wilson's Hospital Secondary School, Multyfarnham, for her portrait entry.
Other winners from Westmeath, all of whom will receive a Special Merit Award, are Sadbh Beirne (17) and Roisín Grennan (13), both from Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone; Kelly Dalton (17) and Gearóid Farrell (15), both from Mercy Secondary School, Kilbeggan; Louis Thomas (10) from St. Oliver Plunkett Boy’s National School, Moate; and Sequana O’Brien (8), from Scoil An Clochair, Killbeggan.
Prizes will be presented at an awards ceremony in Dublin next month when all of the 126 top prize-winners will be in attendance.