Caoirse cooked up a storm at St Angela’s

Caoirse Harkin from St. Mary's College in Derry proudly represented the city in the Healthy Home Chef Cooking Competition.

Caoirse and her teacher, Deirdre Jamison, made the trip to the renowned St Angela's College in Sligo for the event, which took place on April 18 and 19. 

Open to junior and senior post-primary school students, the exciting all-island event was an opportunity for young people to create tasty, nutritious, and affordable meals at home.

Hundreds of students submitted their culinary ideas with 31 selected as finalists in both junior and senior categories who were invited to the college to recreate their dishes before a panel of judges including award winning chef and TV presenter, Neven Maguire.

Dr Elaine Mooney, Director of the National Centre of Excellence for Home Economics at St. Angela’s welcomed the return of the competition.

She said: “We have truly missed hosting this wonderful event where we get to meet students and their parents, guardians and Home Economics teachers who all share our passion for home economics through the art of cooking nutritious meals”. “We are always blown away by the standard and its reassuring to see such talent in the youth of today”.

And it was no easy job to select the winners as Chef Neven Maguire described: "These students show a real gift in what they do, their knowledge and skills shines through their love of cooking and it’s a real pleasure to be a part of the experience”.

The event concluded with prize-giving which included a range of vouchers as well as kitchen equipment for the winning schools.

St. Angela’s look forward to formally incorporating into Atlantic Technological University to form one of Irelands largest universities, offering programmes across a wide range of study areas. For more information visit: www.stangelas.ie.