ST JOSEPH’S Boys Primary School, Terenure have emerged champions at the national final of the Credit Union Schools Quiz in the under-11 age category.
Held in the RDS with quizmaster Marty Whelan, and representing Rathfarnham & District Credit Union, St Joseph’s Primary School have been consistently high performers in the competition, and are deserving winners.
St Joseph’s BNS was founded in 1866 when Terenure was just a country village, and it now boasts 500 pupils and 20 teachers.
Their past pupils include two Lord Mayors of Dublin, four All Ireland senior football medallists, and internationally popular music group The Coronas.
Teams from the school have competed in the Credit Union Schools Quiz for almost 20 years and have reached the all-Ireland final on several occasions, finishing as runners up in 2001.
Ballyroan Boys National School also represented Rathfarnham & District Credit Union in the 11-13 age category. They put in consistently strong performances throughout all levels of the competition, but were unlucky on the day not to feature among the winners.
The annual event, now in its 21st year, has become the highlight of the school calendar, attracting over 25,000 participants in over 300 venues throughout the 32 counties.
It is run throughout the winter months in communities all over Ireland by volunteers from over 496 ILCU affiliated credit unions.
The aim of the competition is to encourage teamwork among young school children under the age of 13. The questions for the quiz are compiled by primary school teachers and cover topics such as geography, history, music, literature and sport.
The quiz consists of two knock out stages at local and regional level and culminates in the national final in Dublin where 100 qualifying teams (50 teams under 11, and 50 teams aged from 11-13) compete for national honour in their category.