By Hannah Martin
The team at Specsavers Eyre Square Centre are delighted to announce sixth class student Gabriela Pomerlan from Moycullen, Galway, as a runner up of the national Specsavers Irish Book Awards short story competition.
The Galway native entered the competition with her enchanting story and has been awarded the runner up prize, a collection of popular Irish children’s books, including Peter Donnelly’s ‘The President’s Dog’ and Ellen Ryan’s ‘Gods Don’t Cry’.
The short story competition celebrates Specsavers’ sponsorship of the Junior and Senior Irish Children’s Book of the Year categories at the recent An Post Irish Book Awards 2023.
This year’s short story prompt was ‘I stepped out of the front door clutching my new binoculars. My mum said they were magic but didn’t tell me what they could do…’ and Gabriela’s creative story, titled ‘The Shimmery Butterfly’, impressed the judges, who felt she had a bright future as a budding author.
