Students show power of written word at Press Pass awards

Budding journalist Elayna Keller showed the power of the written word yesterday when she won a national competition that encourages students to read newspapers.

Elayna, a transition year student at Our Lady’s College, Drogheda, Co Louth, wrote about her experience of bullying for the National Newspapers of Ireland’s Press Pass initiative.

Elayna is one of 31,500 students to have taken part in Press Pass over the past two years. A total of 1,700 entries are selected by schools for the national journalism competition.