After a tense Dragon’s Den-style face-off, four IT Sligo students were yesterday declared the winners in the Irish finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup.

A team of Irish students has won $25,000 (€17,000) in a prestigious international technology competition organised by Microsoft.

A GROUP of students are using flower power to impress the judges in an international technology competition by driving to the contest in Paris in a car fuelled by sunflower oil.

Ireland’s first Masters Degree in video games is being offered at Trinity university, it was revealed today.

Microsoft announced yesterday the 10 Irish finalists for the Imagine Cup, the company’s global student technology competition.