Waltons Music for Schools Competition - First Prize Winners!

Huge congratulations to our students & Mr Kerr who won 1st place in the Waltons RTÉ Lyric FM Music for Schools Competition 2024 in the National Concert Hall. 6 second level schools were chosen from hundreds of audition entries to compete and perform live in the national final, with Scoil Mhuire coming out victorious. Indeed, this is not Scoil Mhuire’s first time to win this prestigious competition, previously getting 1st place back in 2017. 

The Waltons Music for Schools Competition is presented by Waltons Music and Waltons New School of Music, in association with RTÉ lyric fm and the National Concert Hall. All primary and post-primary schools recognised by the Department of Education and Skills in the Republic of Ireland are eligible to enter, and to date schools from every county have taken part. Open to a wide range of performing groups and music genres, the competition offers schools the opportunity to develop a creative and original musical project based on a given theme. This year’s theme was “Music Moves”.


Their piece, which tells the story of Irish emigration, was inspired by a number of factors. Initially, four students came back with the same idea – to tell the story of how the Irish had to emigrate and how they brought their music and culture with them.