Tipperary National School wins €10,000 in Aldi Primary School Sticker Competition
- Over 1,500 primary schools nationwide entered the competition
- St Peter & Paul’s National School, Drumconrath, Navan, Co Meath and St Joseph’s National School, Leitrim Village, Co Leitrim announced as the two winning schools
- Winning €50,000 each for their school’s sports facilities
- 10 runner up primary schools have won €10,000 each
- One lucky school has won a training session with Aldi Play Rugby Ambassador, Paul O’Connell
- The competition will return again in 2020 with stickers in all stores from 31st January
Pictured are pupils and teachers from the winning school alongside Aldi Thurles Assistant Store Manager Richard Blake
Aldi and the IRFU today announced the latest winners of the hugely successful Aldi Play Rugby sticker competition for primary schools, which ran from August – November last year.
The competition gave every primary school in the country the chance of winning one of two €50,000 sports facility makeovers.
The two winners of the €50,000 prizes are:
- St Peter & Paul’s National School, Drumconrath, Navan, Co Meath
- St Joseph’s National School, Leitrim Village, Co Leitrim
The competition this time around was bigger, because as well as two primary schools winning €50,000 to put towards upgrading their sports facilities, this time around, 10 runner up primary schools have each won €10,000 to also spend on improving their sports facilities.
These schools are:
- Scoil Mhuire Gan Smál, Inchicore, Dublin 8
- Clondrohid National School, Macroom, Co. Cork
- Gortnacart National School, Ardara, Co. Donegal
- St. Fergus National School, Glin, Co. Limerick
- Scoil na Cill Mhuire, Lissardagh, Co. Cork
- Hansfield Educate Together National School, Dublin 15
- Gaelscoil Mhuscraí, Blarney, Co. Cork
- St Brendan’s National School, Tuam, Co. Galway
- Our Lady’s National School, Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Cloughanover National School, Headford, Co. Galway
In addition to this, one lucky runner up school has won a training session with Aldi Play Rugby Ambassador, Paul O’Connell along with a new set of school jerseys. Every primary school that returned a fully completed poster, will receive an Aldi Play Rugby Kit.
Due to the phenomenal success of the last two rounds of the competition, Aldi also announced that is has returned for 2020, and stickers are available in stores now. The competition is easy to enter and works by primary schools collecting 300 of Aldi’s exclusive Irish rugby men’s and women’s stickers for their primary school. Available in Aldi’s 140 Irish stores, shoppers collect one sticker for every €30 they spend in store until the 24th April.
Participating primary schools add the stickers to the Aldi Play Rugby Poster and for every 300 stickers collected, are in with a chance of winning. Open to primary schools nationwide, teachers, coaches, parents and schoolchildren interested in taking part in the competition can learn more by visiting www.aldi.ie/playrugby
Each primary school that submitted a valid poster will receive an Aldi Play Rugby kit bag, which includes rugby balls, water bottles and water bottle holders per completed poster! Due to the phenomenal success of the campaign, Aldi will be sending out over X rugby balls and over X water bottles to primary schools across the country!
Aldi Play Rugby Ambassador Paul O’Connell commented: “”As the Aldi Play Rugby Ambassador I’ve seen first-hand how the support Aldi has given, has grown the sport hugely in primary schools around the country during that time. This sticker competition is just one of many initiatives Aldi and the IRFU have worked together successfully on, and I would encourage all primary schools around the country to take part. As the saying goes – ‘If you’re not in it, you can’t win it!’ Well done to the most recent winners, I have no doubt that these prizes will make a huge difference in the schools over the coming months and years.”
Aldi Ireland Group Buying Director John Curtin said: “We’re now into our fourth year as the Official Fresh Food Partner of the IRFU, and what better way to celebrate than by investing over €1.2 Million in primary schools sports facilities. This will be the third time we have run the Aldi Play Rugby Sticker promotion, and I have no doubt that this will be the most. Popular run yet. I would like to congratulate all the primary schools that have taken part so far. We as a business are thrilled to be part of Ireland’s rugby success from grassroots level, and to be supporting young talent through the Aldi Play Rugby programme.”
IRFU President Nicholas Comyn said: “We want to congratulate all of the schools that have won funds to upgrade their sports facilities as part of this competition, and we are delighted to see Aldi bring back the promotion in stores. This competition has been a massive success for all involved. Aldi Play Rugby has gone from strength to strength over the past three and a half years, and now more and more school children, both boys and girls, are getting involved in the game and leading healthier active lifestyles. The sticker promotion is giving schools across the country the chance to win some amazing prizes which we know will only further help the spread of the game at grassroots level.”
Due to the popularity and success of the Irish Men’s and Women’s teams, rugby as a sport is growing rapidly across Ireland The IRFU and Aldi have created a grassroots programme with Aldi Play Rugby, that can potentially give every primary school child in the country a chance to have a go and take part in the non-contact rugby programme. The Aldi Play Rugby programme provides everything that schools and teachers need to get started, and this includes sessions with local IRFU staff, online coaching resources and free coaching equipment. The overall objective of the programme is to encourage schoolchildren to get active, participate in regular exercise in a safe and controlled environment and to eat healthily.
The Aldi Play Rugby programme has gone from strength to strength with over 109,000 children from over 1,200 primary schools across the country taking part.
Schools, teachers and coaches interested in getting involved can register at www.aldi.ie/playrugby
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