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  • National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2025

    Let’s Get Reading Register Here! Ireland’s tenth National Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge takes place at 12 noon on Friday April 11th 2025 – which is right before this year’s Easter holidays. We can’t think of a better way to kick off with a break than a reminder of all the positive benefits of…

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  • National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2024

    Ireland’s ninth National Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge takes place at 12 noon on Friday April 26th 2024.  The main focus of this exciting initiative is to promote reading for pleasure by encouraging everyone to take time out to read.  The simple but very effective idea is to promote the importance of literacy and…

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Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Ireland was founded by Kathleen Moran, beginning in 2016, to promote reading for pleasure and is administered by the JCSP Library Demonstration Project, and supported by City of Dublin ETB, Children’s Books Ireland, LAI Youth Libraries Group, Laureate na nÓg, CDETB Curriculum Development Unit, Poetry Ireland and many more .

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