McAleese: Who needs gold mines when we have brain power?

WE don’t have oil wells or gold mines in Ireland but we have amazing young brain power, President Mary McAleese declared when she opened the 47th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS in Dublin yesterday.

“There is nothing flat about the RDS today — it is a national grid of intellectual energy,” she said.

“It holds vaults of proof of the determination, organisation and capacity for sheer hard slog of our school students.”