Leaving Cert pupils Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly - both 17 and from Synge Street CBS in Dublin 8 - took home the top prize for their study to help monitor satellites orbiting the earth more accurately.

CRUELTY of the scale, intensity and impact revealed to the Child Abuse Commission is almost impossible to encapsulate, but one man epitomises the system that savaged the childhoods of thousands of innocents.

Limerick GAA is celebrating a €5m Gaelic Grounds gift from JP McManus today.