School doubly proud to scoop top prize at competition

HAVING a Young Scientist winner in your school is an incredible feat for any teacher or principal, but two in just over a decade has made staff at Scoil Mhuire gan Smál doubly proud.

Sarah Flannery’s win while a student at the Blarney school came in 1999 and Richard O’Shea’s victory last Friday added to a long list of category winners in the school’s 28 years of participation in the project.

The common denominator was physics teacher Sean Foley who, accompanied by fellow teachers, Annette McNamara and Triona Buckley, brought 10 students with six projects to this year’s competition.