It is “high time” Ireland joins the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), a body representing science teachers in Ireland has said.

FROM the RDS to CERN, from playing ‘a musical typewriter’ to playing with the most powerful machine ever built.

The success of third-year students Ciara Judge, Emer Hick, and Sophie Healy-Throw of Kinsale Community School in winning the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition at the weekend should act as an inspiration to young people throughout the country.