Jodie Komolafe and Richelle Alexander beat competition from more than 2,000 students across the State to win the Irish finals of the European Money Quiz.
Now the third year students at Scoil Chríost Rí, Portlaoise are heading to Brussels to represent Ireland in the European Championships next month.
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The European Money Quiz is Europe’s largest financial education competition which aims to promote financial literacy among 13- to 15-year-old students.
The European finals, hosted by the European Banking Federation in Brussels, will have teams of two from 30 countries play against each other in an attempt to become European champions and share in a prize fund of €5,000 for their school.
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The Irish competition was organised by Banking & Payments Federation Ireland with the support of the Business Studies Teachers’ Association of Ireland.
