It’s just as well Mick O’Rourke is in the business of renewable energy as his daughter Caoimhe May, 12, is as close to perpetual motion as you can get.

MANY people will, by this stage of the summer, have visited a beach and while most of us have favourite stretches of shoreline, how much do we know about what actually goes on in the shifting sands beneath our feet?

Irish ambassador for European Code Week, which runs from Nov 25 to 30, Julie Cullen spoke to Vincent Ryan about her busy working day.