Dublin students net top prize

TRANSITION year students from Christian Brothers School (CBS) James Street, Dublin 8, have recently completed the second annual Angling Adventure flyfishing project, run in co-operation with eir and IFI. 

Following the success of the programme in 2017, it was expanded this year to cover even more elements of fishing including coarse, pike and fly fishing, casting, fly tying, and environmental awareness.

The 13-week programme with IFI and the inner-city Dublin school has been funded by eir under its remit of corporate social responsibility to communities and the environment.

Alongside classroom workshops delivered by experts in the field of fly tying and casting, field trips were organised at Lough Ramor, Virginia, Co Cavan, Annamoe Trout Fishery in Co Wicklow and the K Club’s pike fishing lakes in Co Kildare, as well as an environmental field trip to the River Dodder in Dublin.

Attendance throughout the course was excellent and pupils were fully engaged with the course content and their mentors. The programme ran from January to April.