It’s great to see such a huge response to this month’s competition.  As the vast majority of you knew, the odd van out was:

C) Long Ace Van

All the entries have been put into a giant hat and without any further ado, here’s the winners!

The 2 winners that will receive 2 weekend passes each to Vantastival are:

1. James Young, Sixmilebridge, Co Clare
2. Oisin Clarke, Dublin 1

Congrats guys! You’re tickets and DoneDeal Festival packs are on the way to you as we speak!  We’ll be at the festival in the DoneDeal van so make sure to drop by and say hi!

Our 5 runner up DoneDeal festival goodie bags are also on their way to:

1. Lilian Nolan, Dublin 8
2. Frank Bradley, Letterkenny, Co Donegal 
3. John Kinsella, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow 
4. Linda Casey, Portlaoise, Co. Laois
5. Robert McGlade, Lucan, Co.Dublin

Thanks to everyone that entered and congrats to all our winners.  Make sure to sign up for our Newsletter and keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitter for all upcoming competitions.

Having a longer NCT on your car is definitely a huge selling point.

Elaine has put together an article on what you can do to help you sell your car quickly AND get the best price for it!

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Given the number of dogs in Local Authority pounds and rescue centers across Ireland seeking adoption, we have decided at this time not to allow any new advertisements of dogs for stud or bitches in season/heat.

DoneDeal and the DoneDeal Foundation PetAware Project is committed to promoting adoption over purchase of dogs as well as the benefits of spay and neutering of companion animals in order to promote responsible pet ownership and reduce the burden of pet over population in Ireland. In line with this we have revised our Dog Policy and will no longer allow the advertisement of stud dogs or bitches in season on the DoneDeal website.

Figures from the Department of the Environment show that 5244 dogs were put down in pounds across the country in 2010, you can read more on these figures here: Stray & Unwanted Dogs 2010

We have updated this policy from Wednesday April 11th. The changes will take some time to implement so any ads published before this date will have to expire after the two months they paid for. 

We’re looking for all TPP Readers and Junior DoneDealers out there to help design our birthday logo for our 7th birthday in June.

What we want you to do is download and print an entry form and our logo template to draw and colour around and get creating this years DoneDeal birthday Logo!

The winner will receive an art set worth €50 and will also see his/her logo design on the DoneDeal Birthday Card this year AND as the logo for our website and blog for the week of our Birthday in June!

We’re also going to give the winner’s class a fantastic arts and crafts kit for 30 children to the value of €350! To top it all off, the great people at The Primary Planet are giving a full years subscription  to their Children’s Newspaper to the winners school!

To be in with a chance to win:

• Download the entry form and logo template and get colouring and creating a birthday logo for DoneDeal
• Return to -

Angel Marketing,

DoneDeal Kids Draw Competition,

35 South Street,

New Ross,

County Wexford

Closing date is May 18th 2012

So what are you waiting for…..get drawing!

To put you in the right direction, you can have a look at some drawings we did before as well as last years winning logo, as well as download all you need to enter here:

http://blog.donedeal.ie/donedealer-juniors-draw/