As a Fine Gael TD calls for an investigation into the National Lottery as no player has won the jackpot in almost six months, a statistician calculates that you're more likely to see a toddler starting crèche next year whose first two friends are called 'Micheál' and 'Leo'

For many students taking part in the BT Young Scientist competition, it was a Christmas of analysing data, checking ongoing experiments, and polishing up their projects.