Rockwell College students qualify for Generation Euro Competition Finals

Three Rockwell College students qualified for the final of the Generation Euro competition to be held on Tuesday last, March 28.

The team made up of Padraig Duggan (Killenaule), Peter Heaney (New Inn) and Ronan O’Connor of Tipperary Town were one of only three teams nationwide to compete in the final held at the Central Bank of Ireland.

To qualify the Rockwellians (team name) had to negotiate an MCQ round which was followed by an essay whereby the students had to predict the ECB base interest rate on December 2023.

The students in preparing their final presentation had to take inflation, current interest rates and the ever-changing financial markets into consideration.

Padraig Duggan from Killenaule said “Our first aim was to get past the Round 1, while we were reasonably confident of that, our main goal was to reach the final. Now that we have achieved that, we aim to win it.”

Their economics teacher Pat Egan spoke of his pride when hearing the news but most of all his delight for Ronan, Peter and Padraig as they put in a huge amount of work both in evening study and at home.

Preparations then began in earnest on hearing the great news and continued until they presented their findings to a jury of economists including Deputy Governor of the Irish Central Bank, Sharon Donnery. The winning team will represent Ireland in the European Final in Frankfurt.