New classes in memory of Heaney at Town Hall event

Results from Monday April 28 include:

Boys and girls age 7: 1st Rhys McManus, 86; 2nd Luke McAllister, 85; 3rd Noah Waugh, 84. Prose reading, 8 and 9 years: Andrew Nelson, 88.

Boys and girls, age 7 years: 1st Anna Gordon, 86; 2nd Julia McGrogan, 85; 3rd Niamh McWilliams and Olivia McDermott, 84. Boys and girls, primary 1: 1st Brooke Savage, 86; 2nd Leah Haighton, 85; 3rd Edith McFall, 84.

Boys and girls, primary 2: 1st Srijani Mondol, 86; 2nd Valerie Saljay, 85; 3rd Erin Reid, 84. Boys and girls primary 3: 1st Rebecca Crooks, 87; 2nd Erin McKee, 86; 3rd Keely Smylie, 85.

Girls age 11 years: 1st Hermione Reid, 87; 2nd Caoimhe McWilliams, 86; 3rd Meabh Finnegan, 85.

Quick study prose, 10-11 years: 1st Caoimhe McWilliams, 85; 2nd Sean Murphy, 84; 3rd Hermione Reid, 83. Girls 12 years: Tara Murphy, 87.

Recital class, 11, 12 and 13 years: 1st Aimee Magee, 87; 2nd Tara Murphy, 86; 3rd Stephanie Fleming, 85. Bible reading 11, 12 and 13 years: 1st Tara Murphy, 86; 2nd Sara McCullough, 85.

Prose reading, 12 and 13 years: 1st Tara Murphy, 87; 2nd Dionne Morris 84. Boys and girls 13 and 14 years: 1st George McCullough, 88; 2nd Amy Finnegan, 86; 3rd Becky Lee, 85.

This year, the speech and drama section of the festival also included two new classes in memory of the late poet Seamus Heaney. There were no drama entries for the 2014 event.