This year, we are delighted to welcome PTSB as our Principal Sponsors for 2024-27. We would also like to thank CJ Fallon for joining as Associate Sponsor for the third year running.

We are extending eligibility for the Oireachtas Essay Competition to Transition Year students. All students in Senior Cycle (TY, 5th Year and 6th Year), as well as AS and A level students, are invited to participate.

The coming year, 2025, marks the 250th Anniversary of the birth of ‘The Liberator’, Daniel O’Connell: parliamentarian, lawyer, champion of the downtrodden and the enslaved —and an internationally-renowned Statesman.

Who better than O’Connell to inspire excellent essays on the potential of parliament to do good for society? Our theme for this year’s Competition, therefore, is ‘Parliamentary Politics Liberates’.

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