The Mount Sackville school choir, conducted by Ms Aideen Lane, has won the equal voice schools competition at the Cork International Choral Festival, which took place at the Opera House recently. Their specially commissioned piece, Fothrach Ti i Min na Craobhe by Oliver Hynes, O Searcaigh) won the Sean O Riada Memorial Prize. The choir was also awarded the John Cunningham trophy for best school choir at the festival.