One of the school children involved in a freak incident in which a wooden blank crashed through a bus window last Wednesday helped his school to win the Liffford Area Credit Union Quiz at the weekend.
Jamie Davenport was one of a handful of schoolchildren who were left terrified last Wednesday.
Brendan McGee was dropping home children, aged between six and 12, from An Leanbh Iosa National School in Carrigans when a plank of wood crashed through the window of his bus – narrowly missing the driver and a six-year-old boy.
A ladder, which also flew off the passing trailer, pierced the top of McGee’s Ford Transit minibus while the horrified kids – four boys and a girl – watched the plank career through the window.
“The glass went right to the back of the bus. They were in total shock. You could see that by their wee faces,” McGee told Donegal Daily last week.
Jamie Davenport was one of the passengers, but he overcame the ordeal to take part in the Credit Union Quiz at the weekend.
And his team claimed top spot yet again at u13 level.
Having won at u11 level in 2016 and at u13 level in 2015, the Carrigans school again were victorious, overcoming the challenge of several other national schools in the Lifford Credit Union area.
The team, made up of Cian O’Hagan, Davin Brogan, Jamie Davenport and Kiera Green, will now go forward to the Northern Region Chapter Final which will be held in the Mt. Errigal Hotel, Letterkenny on 5 March.
The Credit Union quiz competition is a national competition organised by the Irish League of Credit Unions.
