Young Reporters for the Environment - Ireland

Brilliant event last night for the Campus Young Reporters for the Environment Awards (19-25 years) 🏆

Fantastic evening! Winners of 2026 YRE Campus awards were attending with their parents in Marino Institute of Education in Dublin.

We were delighted to have Yuming Lian (with camera in images) who is the recent winner of Senior (15-18 years) National YRE Photography Award 2026 taking the official photos! 📷

We were honoured that the awards were presented by Lee Wray-Davies, Director of Education at FEE and YRE Ireland Programme Manager Claire McDonald.

Campus Category winners:
National Winner,
Joint Third: Fionn Murray, Dunboyne College of Further Education, ‘How We Can Prevent Our Own Extinction’

Campus Category
National Winner, Joint Third:
Lily Kelly, Dunboyne College of Further Education
‘An Empty Plate: Is Climate Change Eating Our Future’

Campus Category
National Winner Second Place: Deimante Ciparyte and Varvara Vasylchenko, Trinity College Dublin, ‘Battling Food Security by Growing Up’

Campus Category National Winner First Place:
Varvara Vasylchenko, Trinity College Dublin
‘Reviving the soil: How microbes could secure the future of farming’

You can see all of the winning entries on the YRE Exposure page: https://yreireland.exposure.co/

Trinity College Dublin
Dunboyne College of Further Educationynecollegefe
Eco-Campus
Young Reporters for the Environment
Marino Institute of Education
Green-Campus

Well done Maynooth Community College!!