Irish teen wins top EU science prize

A COUPLE of new tennis rackets is as extravagant as Ireland’s latest EU Young Scientist winner Alexander Amini will get with the €7,000 prize he scooped in Finland.

The 16-year-old computing ace landed one of three top accolades in the competition for his project, which could be in use within years by top sports coaches and medical experts around the globe.

He has advanced his sensor-based computer software significantly since being named BT Young Scientist in Dublin last January and impressed the judges in Helsinki this week to overcome competition from 130 contestants representing 37 countries.