Loreto Community College in Milford has won First Prize in the Labour Party Centenary Essay Competition. The prize is a class trip to Brussels.
The school can take 20 pupils and four teachers on the trip which will allow it to see the workings of the European Parliament.
2012 – 2013 is the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Labour Party and of the 1913 Lockout. To celebrate these events The Centenary Committee launched an Essay Competition around these themes.
The subject of the competition was based on the causes of these events, their story and their results and implications up to the present day.
Donegal Labour Party Senator Jimmy Harte said he was delighted that a Donegal school had won the prize.