The family of a paraplegic Cork teenager who sustained severe spinal injuries when she fell backwards off a flat roof at a nightclub has expressed concern that her recovery will be hampered by a lack of appropriate facilities at Cork University Hospital.

The family of a Cork teenager who sustained spinal injuries when she fell backwards off a flat roof in Kinsale at the weekend has labelled the nightclub where it happened “insensitive” for continuing their celebrations in the days after the incident.

A Cork teenager is recovering in hospital after falling from the roof of a nightclub in Kinsale at the weekend.

A Cork schoolgirl is being hailed an “inspiration” after using €1,000 of prize money she won to fund lifesaving surgery for a baby in the Ukraine.

The BT Young Scientists exhibition opens to the public today at the RDS in Dublin.

Three students from Cork have made it into Time Magazine's list of the top 25 most influential teenagers in the world.

A company set up in a hurling-mad school has won a top prize at a student enterprise competition for its camán-shaped keyrings customised with school, club, and county crests.

A teenager who got his neck trapped in a freak railings accident is fighting for his life in hospital.

A fifth year student who has contributed to a scientific effort to solve an 80-year-old mathematical puzzle is the 50th BT young scientist of the year.

LAST week, Kinsale Community College students Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow beat 120 entries from 38 countries to win the 2013 EU Young Scientist of the Year competition.

Three teenagers from Cork have scooped a top prize at the EU’s Young Scientist competition.

Three students from Kinsale Community College have been awarded a first prize in Biology at the EU Young Scientist Competition in Prague.

People leaving a school concert may have seen a man following a young woman who was later found semi-conscious in a Co Cork harbour town.

Three third-year students from Kinsale Community College in Co Cork have won the overall prize at this year's BT Young Scientist Exhibition.

Even though they had just moved into the area, the young couple renting the dormer cottage on Abbey Lane in Kinsale, Co Cork, bought a baby present for their neighbours when their son was born four weeks ago.

TWO young farmers’ sons beat off the challenge of more than 500 other projects from schools on both sides of the border to win this year’s BT Young Scientists of the Year award.

A PRINCIPAL has spoken out on a “crisis situation” in her overcrowded school and warned that the failure of the Department of Education to keep its promises could lead to a limit on enrolment.