SCOIL Cholmcille, An Tearmann, is celebrating European success with former pupil Barry Gallagher after a news segment created by Barry and the pupils from 5th and 6th class won a major European broadcasting award.

Barry Gallagher, a past student of Termon School, presented the RTÉ news2day report that has just been named Best News Story at the annual European Broadcasting Union (EBU) youth broadcasters’ conference in Paris.

The segment, which explained Ireland’s PR-STV voting system in an accessible way for young audiences, featured the 5th and 6th class pupils from Scoil Cholmcille as actors throughout the video.

Their on-screen performances were a key part of the piece, helping bring humour, clarity and warmth to a topic usually considered complex even for adults.

Produced alongside RTÉ cameraman Brian McVeigh, the report stood out among 18 entries from across Europe, including BBC Newsround, TG4 Cúla4 Ar Scoil, Norway’s NRK, France’s Arte and Germany’s ZDF.

The report was selected by other public service editorial teams across Europe and has already garnered over one million views on social media.

The school shared its excitement in a social media post:

“Some of you may remember when our fifth and sixth class students starred in a video explaining Ireland’s PR-STV voting system,” they wrote.

“Past pupil Barry Gallagher presented the report on RTÉ’s news2day.

“This week, we received the wonderful news that the report has won a European Award for Best Kids’ News Story!”