Ireland may benefit from the increase in wages in China as a growing number of companies look to bring manufacturing back to their core markets.

The recession may have cast a cloud over the country, but it’s proving to have a silver lining for the hi-tech sector in terms of attracting more and better students.

They may not be RoboCop or R2-D2, but 80 students and their vocal fans from 20 schools will be hoping that their designs will win the Lego Robot Competition tonight.

WHAT do making rockets and robots, gaming, 3D, animation, teddy hacking, astronauts — even a portable planetarium and Mega Molecules — have in common? Discovery 2011.