It’s a long way from Crettyard to Clonaslee so primary schools from the two areas being paired against each other in the LaoisToday QuizCast makes for a novel pairing.
Thankfully, the advent of Zoom meant that a long road trip wasn’t necessary for either and Scoil Bhride of Clonaslee and Newtown were able to play out a thrilling Round 1 battle.
Will Murray, Oran McEvoy and Donnacadh Owens were on duty for Clonaslee while Cillian Shiels, Sophie Purcell and Rian Powell-Ryan were representing Newtown.
Champions League winners, World Cup winners, Irish and UK politics, capital cities, Roald Dahl books and European countries were among the topics covered in this round.
And it was the Clonaslee lads that advanced to Round 2 after a tight battle that saw Newtown get off to a shaky start before recovering to bring the contest right to the very last question.
Clonaslee now go through to Round 2 where one more win will book their place in our Grand Final in the Dunamaise Arts Centre on Friday, March 1.
Newtown aren’t out of contention and now go to our Wildcard phase where they too will try and come through to take one of the remaining final places.
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