Three Cork teenagers have bagged the top prize at this year’s Google Science Fair for their project, Natural Bacteria Combating World Hunger.

THE JP McManus Scholarship Awards went international last night with two of the eight recipients having been born in Poland and Togo.

A teenager who collapsed at an athletics event in the grounds of a Cork school remains in a serious condition in hospital this morning.

AMBITIOUS young boffins began setting up their stalls yesterday as hundreds of pupils put the final touches to their science projects for this year’s BT Young Scientist of the Year competition.

JP McMANUS, the man who never liked school, yesterday received a doctorate from the University of Limerick.