If you see a young, athletic-looking student speaking frantically into their phone in a Spar shop in the coming weeks, don’t be concerned.
The retailer and Israel Olatunde, European Athletics Championship finalist and fastest Irish man in history, have launched a competition for two third-level students in Ireland to win €5,000 each in cash to support them this academic year.
They have partnered with Cian Mooney, a familiar face on TikTok with over 7 million likes and 92,000 followers, to pay his local SPAR beside University College Dublin a flying 10.17-second visit.
To be in with a chance of winning the cash prize, college students across Ireland have to do likewise and record a Tik Tok video in their local SPAR in under 10.17 seconds and share it on Cian Mooney’s TikTok channel.
This competition will see an additional €10,000 invested in SPAR’s recent Community Fund initiatives, which have already invested €20,000 into community-based projects across Ireland in the last 12 months.
“Everybody knows the challenges that are being faced by third-level college students across Ireland with rising costs and accommodation shortages. €5,000 is a huge amount of money to anyone and a real game changer for any student facing into the academic year,” said Olatunde, who himself has moved away from home in Dundalk to live on campus in his final year of a Computer Science with Data Science Degree at Belfield.
“I’m delighted to partner with SPAR on this initiative and to have a bit of craic with Cian to get the competition out of the blocks.”
Join us tomorrow when we will have an in-depth interview with Olatunde touching on confidence, faith and the cost of using washing machines.
“SPAR is proud to partner with Israel on this initiative. College students are hugely important to SPAR, and this is a small way of us recognising their struggles and giving something back to them.” added Colin Donnelly, SPAR Sales Director.
“As an organisation with a long heritage of supporting athletics we’ve had our eye on Israel for some time now. We couldn’t be happier to collaborate with him on this project and have a bit of fun as we break new ground for our brand into TikTok.”
SPAR is a long-standing supporter of athletics in Ireland and internationally through longstanding sponsorships of Athletics Ireland and European Athletics. It also supports grassroots football in Ireland through sponsorship of the SPAR FAI Primary Schools 5’s competition.
