Helen Kelleher speaks with Lisa Daunt, guidance counsellor at Kinsale Community College.

Fiona Keating, should results fall in her favour this weekend, won’t be the first dual player to pocket two county senior championship medals in the one year. What’s unique about this 17-year-old is that she’s bidding to achieve double glory in the space of 25 hours.

A high-flying executive in one of the world’s largest companies touched down in his home town yesterday to donate €50,000 to a school, putting it on track to become the fittest school in Ireland.

Soccer legend Roy Keane has praised schoolchildren whose heroic fundraising efforts for the Irish Guide Dogs (IGD) have helped transform lives.

Sinead Kane is a marathon runner who, despite her blindness, has recently completed the World Marathon Challenge. Never heard of it? That's seven marathons, on seven continents, in seven days...

A regenerative flatworm could play a role in developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

The Garda whistleblower controversies have turned up in the most unexpected place — the BT Young Scientist Exhibition.

Some 4,000 teenage girls will meet role models for advice on careers in science and technology next month.

We are the robots.

Participation numbers continue to drop, but the Munster Branch of the GUI celebrated another good year in 2015, with Gary Hurley, John Murphy, and clubs Tramore and Dooks presented with awards during the annual delegates’ meeting at the Hibernian Hotel, Mallow, last week.

Some 200 schoolchildren from around the Cork region will go to college tomorrow to extract DNA from strawberries, study robotics, solve giant puzzles — and learn that maths and science are cool.

Waterford Leaving Cert Students at Abbey Community College, Ferrybank, Waterford City share their thoughts on English paper 1

Having whittled down the entries for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition from 2,077 to 550 last October, the judges will crown an overall winner this evening — which won’t be easy because the standard is up across the board, writes Evelyn Ring.

Students putting the final touches to projects for next month’s BT Young Scientist competition have the added incentive of up to €2,000 each towards a university education.

Fr Peter McVerry visited the Kinsale Peace Project last night where he spoke about his trust’s efforts to tackle the scourge of homelessness.

One of the Kinsale schoolgirls recently listed by Time magazine as one of the world’s most influential teenagers has called for an overhaul of the examination system.

A teenager suffered a fatal heart attack after his neck got trapped in a freak railings accident, an inquest heard yesterday.

Afric McGlinchey wanted to know how pupils at a Co Cork school are picking up awards worldwide

Three schoolgirls from Kinsale have been listed by Time magazine as among the 25 Most Influential Teens of the Year.

Cheering crowds, hundreds of handshakes, and plenty of pats on the back. It’s not every day you win the world’s top science competition, but these three Cork girls almost make it look easy.

Take a bow, teachers

Three Cork teenagers have bagged the top prize at this year’s Google Science Fair for their project, Natural Bacteria Combating World Hunger.

Three teenagers from Ireland have won the grand prize at this year's Google Science Fair.

One of Ireland’s top young scientists says students want to see schools becoming more digitally focussed during class time.

The wait for CAO offers is not a worry for a young woman who will soon be winging her way to Germany to further her career as a violinist.

An Irishman who wants to live on Mars and a doctor who can listen to the brains of unborn babies are among the speakers at a TED talk in UCC.

A common plant could be used to help treat chemical spills and other river pollution — and young scientists are helping turn the idea from theory to practice this week.

Teenagers attending the funeral of a 14-year-old boy who died after he became trapped in railings were urged to be kind to each other and express their grief and pain.

“We prayed for a miracle but unfortunately, it did not come to pass.”

Teenagers have gathered to use science, technology, and politics to help shape tomorrow’s world as part of the first European Union Student Parliament to be held in Ireland.

Students wonder whether social networking promotes narcissism; whether anxiety affects examination performance; and if they can save an endangered bird.

CABINETS jammed with trophies and plaques greet visitors to the school, displaying the talents of the pupils. Just like in any other school across the country, the shelves feature bronze statues of golfers, ribboned medals for basketball, and honours for GAA. There are also Young Enterprise awards and even a framed picture of a student receiving his Meitheal prize from then-President Mary McAleese.

We must aspire to be a republic of creativity, President Michael D Higgins declared as he opened the 50th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS, Dublin.

The Irish Examiner has received a major award for its role in promoting road safety.

Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, all third-year Kinsale Community School students, are having one hell of a year.

Ciara Judge is taking it all in her stride, being one of the top young scientists and now one of Ireland’s top brains, after getting 12 A’s in her Junior Certificate.

There’s no shortage of big names participating but Kinsale itself is the heart and soul of this summer’s arts festival, new director Marie McPartlin tells Jo Kerrigan.

With a display of powerful running, Sean Tobin removed two of the longest standing records from the books at the Munster Schools Championships which took place at the Cork IT Athletics Stadium.

Plans have been lodged for a major extension at Kinsale Community School to cater for growing student numbers.