Kildare students earn Trinity awards

A NUMBER of Kildare students were among 593 students who were awarded prestigious Entrance Exhibition Awards for the 2024/5 academic year from Trinity College Dublin.

The awards go to students accepted into the first year of a full-time undergraduate degree programme who achieved the highest points among Trinity entrants from their secondary school, above a minimum of 500 CAO points.  Awardees received a certificate and a €150 book token.   Many former awardees have gone on to make a significant contribution to the economic, cultural, and political life of Ireland and beyond.

Awards went to 32 Kildare students, and were delivered at three ceremonies at Trinity's Old Dining Hall, starting on 21 January 2025, to which the students and their school principals were invited.

The Kildare students' names are as follows:

Charlotte Ledwidge and Charlotte Hathaway form Leinster Senior College; Sebastians Serna, Salesian College; Etienne Bernadine, Monaghan Thompson and Ailbhe Coyle, Newbridge College; Eoin Corrigan and David Liu, Patrician Secondary School; Lola Carthy, Holy Family Secondary School; Ella Hannon, Cross and Passion College; Lea Jennife, Scoil Dara; Luke Benjamin Mulvihill, Meánscoil Iognáid Ris; William Simon-Fellowes, Clongowes Wood College; Sadhbh Cotter and Anna Williams St Mary's College; Oscar Higgins, Gael-Choláiste Chill Dara; Kamila Merenkova, Athy Community College; Aideen Stein, Coláiste Lorcain; Stella Masic, St Conleth's Community College; Lydia Hession, Sofia Babic and Johnny Cornea, Confey Community College; Hugh Phillips and Yan Wa Lee, Maynooth Post Primary School; Oliver Donnellan, Piper's Hill College; Xinyi He, Maynooth Community College; Anna Halvey and Sarah Bradley, Coláiste Chiaráin Community School (Leixlip Community School); Anna Hawkins, Scoil Mhuire Community School; Cathy Imelda Manning, St Wolstan's Community School; Alex Moran, Kildare Town Community School; and, Grace Greene, Celbridge Community School.