Coláiste Chraobh Abhann

THE OSCARS

A huge congratulations to third year Coláiste Chraobh Abhann student Leon Hughes, who is starring in the film ‘Detainment’, an Irish film that has been shortlisted for Best Live Action Short in this year’s Academy Awards, which takes place on February 24.

Detainment is an Irish short drama film written and directed by Vincent Lambe, and deals with the investigation into the horrific murder of two-year old Jamie Bulger, which took place in Liverpool in 1993.

Leon plays the role of Robert Thompson, one of the boys convicted of the murder, and the film has become one of the most talked about films in Irish cinema history. Irish Times journalist Fintan O’Toole described Lambe’s film as ‘a masterpiece of economic storytelling, an epic in half an hour’ and for him, ‘a profoundly moral film.’.

The film has already won numerous awards, including the Cannes Film Festival, The Richard Harris Film Festival and the Irish Screen America Awards.

We wish Leon and the rest of the cast the very best of luck at this year’s Oscars.

JUNK KOUTURE

Transition Year Arts students from CCA entered six amazing dresses into this year’s Bank of Ireland Junk Kouture fashion design competition, with two of the dresses being selected for this year’s regional final.

Junk Kouture is an all-island competition for secondary school students, focusing on fashion design, engineering and environmental sustainability.

The competition requires entrants to use everyday junk materials to create works of wearable art, with the finalist designs being modelled on the catwalk in a prestigious fashion show, which takes place in the Helix, DCU every year.

The Coláiste Chraobh Abhann students involved in this year’s competition are Stevie Stokes, Hannah McConnell, Lara Harrison, Hannah Burton, Kayla Devlin, Alex Brady, Casey Finnerty, Lucy Phipps-Rooney, Ruth Ireland, Ruth Nolan, Nicole Dutton, Nicole Greene, Isabel Rice and Jessica Kennedy.

Lucy and Ruth Ireland’s winning design is titled ‘Pulp Fashion’ and is made from recycled Argos catalogues, while Jessica, Isabel, and Hanna Burton’s dress