RTÉ ‘Eco Eye’ presenter Duncan Stewart and his team of adjudicators visited St Patrick’s Boys’ National School in Skibbereen on Friday afternoon and were shown around the school garden, which is one of six projects nationally that have been shortlisted for the Get-Involved competition, run by regional newspapers representative group Local Ireland and whose main sponsor is the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).
Each project has been championed by their local newspaper with the Skibbereen boys’ school one having been entered in conjunction with ‘The Southern Star.’ They will be competing for the overall award against projects from Tipperary, Limerick, Longford, Leitrim and Sligo.
This week, the judging panel, visited each project and all of them were also filmed during the on-site judging process. These projects are competing for a €10,000 prize fund, made up of overall winner €5,000; 2nd €1,500; 3rd €500; Community Energy Champion €3,000.
