Maths + imagination = student’s writing contest success

TAKING the boredom of maths out of the equation is a tricky problem — but one teenager has done it.

Lauren Mulvihill, 13, from Dungarvan in Waterford, figured out just how to do it in a fraction of the time mathematics professors might take — and has won a trip to London and a meeting with a top literary agent for her trouble.

Lauren was the overall winner of the brainfood.ie Fantasy Writing contest.