European Commission to name satellite after Dublin schoolboy

A 10-year-old boy from North Dublin will have a satellite named for him after he won a European art competition.

Adam Vaughan from Swords has won the Irish leg of the European Galileo Drawing Competition.

Adam, who attends Saint Cronan's Senior National School, called his art-work "The Solar System" and the Galileo satellite being named after him will be launched into space later this year.

The Galileo Programme will launch a total of 30 satellites that will form a constellation orbiting at more than 20,000 kilometres from earth.