CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER:

The Orchid Ivy Boland, Coláiste Éamann Rís, St Patrick’s Rd., Turners Cross, Co. Cork

The RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival Transition Year Schools Playwright Competition is now in its 12th year. This year we have individual Transition Year students’ scripts (one act plays, 2000 words on the theme ‘Care’) submitted from 14 counties:

• Cork,
• Donegal,
• Dublin,
• Galway,
• Kerry,
• Kildare,
• Laois,
• Meath,
• Monaghan,
• Offaly,
• Roscommon,
• Sligo,
• Tipperary and
• Westmeath.

All scripts are currently with the six judges. Towards the end of March six Transition Year student scripts will emerge as the award winners for 2025. The winning play will be cast and staged for a live TY student audience on Tuesday 6th May 2025 in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone. 

One thousand euro in prizes for the winning students is sponsored by West-Midlands Credit Union. This year we are delighted to have received one TY student script written ‘as Gaeilge’. This is a precedent in the life of this competition. This script may be first of many to help further and encourage the promotion of the Irish language. As their is a Drama module on the Leaving Certificate course, it is reasonable to suppose that Cúrsa Dramaíocht will also be approved for the leaving certificate Irish examination.

2025 finalists