The winners of the Irish Schools Video Competition were announced on last Friday in the Belltable Arts Centre, O'Connell Street, Limerick. First prize in the competition, which is part of the Fresh Film Festival 2001 and given for the best film- and video-making from young people aged 12 to 18, from North and South, was given for Oxygen, directed by Jeremy O'Hanlon and put together by students from Rockbrook Park school, Rathfarnham, Dublin. Second prize went to Foreign Affairs, made by a Transition Year group at Colaiste Iognaid, Galway. Script and direction were by Kate McDonald and Caoimhe Connolly. In third place was The Mummy, from the Patrician College, Galway, directed by Christian Craughwell and Kenneth Madden. Commendations went to: Freaked, by Drogheda YouthReach; Rollerblading by Lorcan Fox and Albert Hoii of Sandymount, Dublin; D8 by Yuri Parlak of St James CBS, Dublin 8; and Virginia Williams, from Donal Foreman of Dublin.