Women in Sport award success for local school

An Offaly school took the special ‘Women in Sport’ Award at the Dare to Believe PTSB 10th PExpo held in the National Indoor Arena Abbotstown on Thursday last

Abby Hollywood, Aoife Egan, Blaithin Dooley, Lucy Fitzerald and Sinead Gleeson from Coláiste Naomh Cormac, Kilcormac, won the award for their project on ‘How the Menstrual Cycle Affects Performance in Fenale Athletes’.

Overall Dublin schoolboy Finn Crinion, a student at Coláiste Eoin in Booterstown, took a record four awards at the Dare to Believe PTSB 10th annual PExpo’ 24, including the overall junior award. Senior overall winners were Aoife O’Keefe, Molly Collins and Faithleann O’Callaghan from St Brigid’s Presentation School, Killarney teamed up for a challenging project called ‘Sport Behind Bars’ which studied the effect of exercise on prisoners in Limerick jail.