HEALTH professionals are working closely with local students, parents and teachers following news that six teenage girls, who live within a 19km radius of Co Kildare and west Dublin, have taken their own lives in the past 12 months.

THE last of the Dublin sessions of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All Ireland Schools Quiz took place in the Montrose Hotel last night.

SOMALIA-BORN Abdusalam Abubakar, who found a way to crack the encryption system used by banks and the military to keep information secure, is this year’s BT Young Scientist of the Year.

THE RDS was buzzing yesterday with a new form of electricity: the industry, laughter and conversation of young people with science on their minds.