Siblings win top prizes in art competition

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of their elder sister Alice, siblings Grace and Nicholas Dolan have won top awards in this year’s 59th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

Grace Dolan, a 13-year-old student at Holy Faith Clontarf, has won first prize and a cheque for e350 in the 12-13-years age category for her painting entitled

‘Keys’.

Grace’s brother Nicholas (9) – who was the inspiration for his elder sister Alice’s winning portrait in last year’s competition – has won second prize of e200 in the 9-11-years age category for his work entitled ‘Busy Day in the Garden’.

Other Northside winners, both of whom took Special Merit Awards, were Kelsey Boylan (13), a pupil at Scoil Chiaráin, Glasnevin, and Nicole Jackson (8), a pupil at Burrow National School, Sutton.

The prizes will be presented at an awards ceremony in Dublin next month.