Ferbane student wins top prize in 'Love Your Wellies' competition

Gallen Community School student Sheola Rosney earned the top overall prize in this year's 'Love Your Wellies' competition with her entry, 'What's going on out on our bogs?' Ferbane student wins top prize in 'Love Your Wellies' competitionSheola Rosney of Gallen Community School in Ferbane was recently named as the overall winner of this year's 'Love Your Wellies' competition. Organised by Farm Payments for Ecological and Agricultural Transitions (FarmPEAT), the annual competition for primary and secondary students aims to raise awareness of the importance of peat landscapes. The 4th to 6th Year category winner, meanwhile, was 'Ireland’s Bog Plant Species' by Georgia Jennings of Tullamore College. She emphasised the importance of communicating biodiversity and climate issues, and how the 'Love Your Wellies' finalists had accomplished this in their brilliant entries.