Two students from Co Louth have scooped the top prizes in the Green Schools 'Water School of the Year' awards.

Brendan Ngandu from St Mary's Discesan School, received the Green-Schools Ambassador Award for spreading awareness of water conservation issues in his school and wider community.

Sophie Newman from Ardee Community School won the Eastern Midlands Secondary School Green-Schools Irish Water Poster Competition.

Fine Gael TD for Louth, Fergus O'Dowd, congratulated the sudents.

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He said: "At the awards Brendan Ngandu was described as being a true example of a Green-Schools Ambassador, as he shared all he learned during the ambassador programme for the water theme with his schoolmates, Green-Schools committee and the general public. He gave presentations in his school, created a Facebook page dedicated to the programme, placed information on TV monitors around the school, held a fundraising bake sale to purchase water butts for his school, created a music video called 'Can't flush this' and was involved in a trip to a wastewater treatment plant for the Think Before You Flush campaign. He also, wrote articles in Drogheda Life and Drogheda Independent and was interviewed on LMFM radio.

"I would like to congratulate both Brendan and Sophie for the great work that they've done."

(CD)