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At the cheque handover of €3,000 from AIB bank to Presentation Secondary School were in front, Sarah Fitzgerald and AIB Tralee Branch Manager, Joe Shannon. Back: Eimear Brosnan, Kate O’Connor, Muireann Moriarty, Isabel Horgan, Meadhbh Dowling, Sarah Leahy, Noreen O’Grady, Lilian O’Connor and Mary Rose Cantillon. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
A GROUP of Presentation Secondary School students came second in a national competition recently and won €3,000 for their school.
The girls took part in the AIB Build a Bank Challenge which offers transition and 5th year students a chance to run their own School Bank.
Joe Shannon, Manager of AIB Tralee presented the cheque on behalf of the bank to Presentation Secondary School on Monday and the members of ‘The Blossom Bank’ were treated to a meal in the Stonehouse Restaurant.
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Acting as a kind of AIB sub-office in Presentation Secondary School, ‘The Blossom Bank’ lodged around €18,000 from their fellow students who opened accounts with them in the school.
Around 300 schools from all over the country took part in the initiative.
After submitting a business plan and making their way through the regional finals in Cork, Presentation was one of six – and the only student bank from Kerry – who made it to the national finals held in the RDS in Dublin in April.
At the national finals, students had to showcase their banks by giving a presentation on stage in the RDS in front of an audience and girls excelled coming in second place.
