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National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2026

DEAR Challenge Join us at 12 noon on Friday 24th April 2026 for our annual National Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge. DEAR is open to everyone, click HERE to register. The JCSP Library Project, which provides professionally staffed library services in 30 post-primary schools around Ireland, are delighted to announce the eleventh year of the challenge. Every year,… Continue reading National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2026

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National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2021

by Kathleen Moran Register your support for DEAR here Following on from our enormously successful 2020 National DEAR Challenge - where we had over 342,000 registered participants - we are once again inviting the entire nation to take time out to join our 2021 Challenge and to ‘Drop Everything and Read’ for 20 minutes at 12… Continue reading National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2021

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National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2022

by Kathleen Moran Register your support for DEAR here We are inviting the entire nation to take time out and to ‘Drop Everything and Read’ for 20 minutes at 12 noon on Friday April 29th 2022. The simple idea is to promote the importance of literacy and to spread the joy of reading for pleasure… Continue reading National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2022