#ThinkLanguages 2025
#ThinkLanguages 2025
#ThinkLanguages 2025 continued as a week-long festival style event. 21,000 TY students celebrated nationwide during the week of the 17-21 November.
This was the eighth annual celebration of languages and cultures. The event has quickly become a highlight of the TY calendar and over 240 schools across the country kicked off their events taking part in a range of activities.
Partner Offerings
We teamed up once again with some great partners to offer an assortment of activities to schools participating in #ThinkLanguages Week.
The Department of Foreign Affairs Career for EU strategy kindly sponsored our Champion Team Prize in 2025. Six TY students and two teachers won an exciting trip to Brussels – taking in all the sites and visiting the EU institutions!
Universities across Ireland opened their doors for campus tours, activities and workshops to give TY students a taste of what life is like as a third level language student!
The Irish Film Institute showed foreign language films at cinemas nationwide and also gave schools the opportunity to stream the movies directly into the classroom.
Read more about our partners here.
National TY Celebration of Languages
TY students from right across Ireland came together in a national celebration of languages and cultures, enjoying inspirational talks, fun language-filled workshops and competing against schools nationwide in an interactive #ThinkLanguages Quiz.
TY Students, TY Coordinators and MFL teachers got to run the show and put on a festival of languages in their own school – with lots of support from the #ThinkLanguages Team!
Champion Team 2025
Ennistymon Community School were the lucky Transition Year students crowned the winners, taking home the title as well as an amazing prize of a trip to Brussels.
To enter the competition, Champion Teams created a short, engaging vlog of their week, highlighting their #ThinkLanguages Week experience. The standard of entries from around the country was extremely high in 2025, with the judges having a difficult time choosing three finalists.
As well as taking home the winning trophy, the Champion Team from Ennistymon Community School will have the opportunity to experience what a career with languages could look like as part of their prize, thanks to the Department of Foreign Affairs and its ‘A Career for EU Strategy’. This is the third year they have supported the competition in recognition of the importance of multilingual Irish representation in Europe.
Watch the winning vlog entry here!
Poster Competition
Running alongside the Champion Team Competition was the #ThinkLanguages Individual Poster Competition, which invited Transition Year students nationwide to design creative posters celebrating one of the key themes of #ThinkLanguages Week – ‘Think Global Opportunities’. It was the first year of the competition, with the finalists’ designs displayed on the day. Shortlisted students came from Loreto College, Cavan; Our Lady of Lourdes, New Ross; and Coláiste Íosagáin, Booterstown with Jewell Belleno from Our Lady of Lourdes Wexford announced as the winner on the day.
