Students make good teachers in first ever Oireachtas presentation

TWO secondary school students from Dundalk made history yesterday when they became the first ever school students to make a presentation before an Oireachtas Committee.

Ruth Devine, 16, and Annie O’Connell, 16, both transition year students in St Vincent’s Secondary School, made a presentation to the Committee on the advantages broadband access to education.

The transitional year girls of St Vincent’s this year won an all-Ireland computer skills competition and were named the most computer literate transition year class in the country.