Video: 12-year-old champion coder from Dublin overcomes bullying

Silicon Republic have released a video, made by Athena Media, of a 12-year-old Dublin girl’s efforts to beat bullying.

Kathleen Marie Maughan, from Clondalkin, Co Dublin, hadn't used a computer until two years ago. And yet within that short space of time, she has managed to design an app that won her a trip to Brussels in a competition against 257 other students.

Kathleen Marie joined CoderDojo classes in the Deansrath Centre in Clondalkin when she was 10, and when she was asked by her parents if she liked it, her reply was an emphatic: "I don't want to leave here, ever."