Future looks good for young inventors

THE jobs will be there for them — that was the message Minister Micheál Martin had for the hundreds of “young Einsteins” showing off their science projects yesterday.

Attending the BT Young Scientist of the year competition, the Enterprise Trade and Employment Minister stressed that Ireland’s only future now lay in intellectual growth.

But the young boffins who packed into the RDS hall in Dublin were too busy to think about jobs, as judges yielded their pens and paper marching from stall to stall.