Essay winners

Third level

First: Cormac Finn. Second: Christina Weir, first year, DCU Business School. Runners-up: Jennifer Mary Noone, first year, DCU Business School; Caroline Joyce, first year, DCU Business School.

Second Level

First: Kian Pettit, CBS High School, Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Second: Bernard Hunt, Sligo Grammar School. Runners-up: Julie O'Leary, Presentation Secondary School, Wexford; Darren Nagle, St Andrew's College, Booterstown, Co Dublin.