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THE quest for quiz glory began again in north Clare last week when a team from Doolin National School won their way through to the re- gional final of the All-Ireland Credit Union Quiz.
The quiz, which is the largest sin- gle quiz to take place in Ireland this year, has been dominated in recent years by teams from the north of the
county with Lisdoonvarna National School taking the national title in paul eToys
Indeed this year’s Doolin team will include one member of the Lisdoon- varna National School team which represented Munster at last year’s All-Ireland competition.
“Last weeks quiz was against kids in fifth and sixth class from around the county,” said Orla Burke from Doolin.
“I was in the Lisdoonvarna team last year who made it to the All-Ire- land final. It was great fun so hope- fully we can do well again this year and maybe even make it to the All- Ireland again.”
While Orla had the experience of last years competition, for fellow sixth class student, David Sims, this was his first taste of competitive quizzing.
“Some of the questions were really
hard but some of the other ones were okay,’ he said.
“This was my first year being in- volved in the quiz. The heat took place down in Ennistymon and there was 53 other teams from all over tak- ing part.”
For the third member of the team Keelan McMahon, liking subjects is the best way of studying them.
“T like geography and history and the capitals of all the countries a lot,” he said.
“I liked the sports questions as well. I think that it’s easier to study the subject you like so I really liked the sports questions.”
The youngest member of the team was David Nagle, who is the only fifth class pupil in the group.
‘After this we are going down to Limerick in March and if we do well there we will be going up to Dublin for the All-Ireland,” he said.
“There will be one or two other teams from Clare in the Limerick competition as well as loads of teams from all around Munster. I’m really looking forward to it.”
The Limerick Regional Final will take place on March 3 with the best two teams going forward to the All Ireland. More than 25,000 children from north and south of the border will compete in this years competi- nt