It was a full house on Thursday night in the Midlands Park Hotel as Portlaoise CBS Students hosted a fundraising event “20K Drop” to raise money for their upcoming trip to Zambia.
A group of 16 Portlaoise CBS students who took part in organising the event with the help of their teachers will travel to Zambia in February 2019
Every two years, the school brings a group of boys to Livingstone to experience what it is like to teach and volunteer, as part of the Zambia Immersion Project, run by the Christian Brothers.
But in order to get there, they have to raise funds and they weren’t disappointed on Thursday night as hundreds gathered to support the students.
Students from Third year and TY applied to go and after an extensive interview process, the following 16 have been chosen:
Daniel O’Toole, Jack Delaney, Ben Brennan, Eddie Critchley, James Connolly, Marc Ramsbottom, Kevin Swayne, Alain Carroll, Brian Fingleton, Tomás Dunne, Peter Conroy, Adam Duffin, John Keogh, Michael Rogers, Niall Carey and Ben Dunne.
While the following teachers also going: Brian Carroll, James Walsh, Stephanie Buckley, Eimear Lewens and Cathy Mulligan.
St Mary’s CBS hosted an exciting night with eight contestants from the crowd chosen to step up and try win €2,500 each.
LaoisToday were there to capture some of the crowd as they arrived.
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