CIGS Irish-German Video Competition and Unternehmen Deutsch

On 30 April, the 2025 Centre for Irish-German annual video competition for students studying German at Irish universities took place and was a wonderful and memorable event, showing off many facets of Irish-German relations. The booked-out event was, like last year, a joint undertaking with the fantastic Unternehmen Deutsch competition, run by the Goethe-Institut e.V. Institut, so a huge thank you to Andrea Battes (the UD key organiser) and Goethe-Institut director Noémie Njangiru! Noemie was part of the video expert group, together with Stefanie Ziska, CEO of the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce (who very generously sponsored the competition again - thanks so much!), the German embassy (represented by H.E. David Gill and Cultural Attaché Wolfram von Heynitz), the Irish ambassador in Berlin, H.E. Maeve Collins, who participated online, and of course Derek Scally from the Irish Times, who expertly engaged with all groups after their respective videos were shown.

Warmest congratulations to the winning group from the University of Galway: Hanna Fairchild, Brendan Gunning and Claddagh OReilly (with their video on Roger Casement). Runner-ups were the UL Business German students: Joshua Fortune, Johanna Gnann, Meadhbh Hodnett and Mark Ryan (“Der Einfluss der deutschen Technokultur auf das irische Nachtleben“). The third prize was claimed by Lorna Derrane, Alana Rogers, Anna Staeglin-Tucker and Anna Triller of Maynooth University (“Treffen Sie die Mutter”).