A refreshing insight into how schoolchildren view the internet, in a Trend Micro-backed competition, produced winners from Kerry to Kildare and Cork to Cavan.

AS 10 four- and five-year-olds lean forward out of their tiny green plastic chairs, teacher Margaret Brown holds up a small yellow duck and poses a question.

EVENING classes in creative writing, basic science and computer animation have never been so popular, but the latest set of graduates at one Cork city school are a lot younger than the usual set of people developing their skills.