11-year-old wins papal robe competition

More than 4,500 children attending Catholic schools across Ireland took part in a competition designing papal robes as a gift for Pope Francis.

Organisers said they were overwhelmed by the standard but 11-year-old Jane Boland from County Tipperary was the eventual winner.

Jane's is now seeing for the first time how tailors in Rome used her design to make papal woollen vestments.

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