Last year he was the youngest person in Europe to develop an app for the Apple store. Now a Waterford schoolboy is about to become the youngest speaker at the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs, being held in Silicon Valley.

MICKEY HARTE never had a smaller audience but he rarely got a bigger response either.

Today is National Children’s Day and parents are being urged to put the spotlight on children.

“WHAT a wonderful way to begin a new school year,” Sheenagh Brennan said yesterday after learning she’s top of the class with her pupils.

The Green Party has marked today, National Children’s Day, by hitting out at the marketing practices used to sell products, particularly those of high sugar content, to children.