VIDEO: Whirlwind transition for Young Scientist duo

While their school hopes the success helps their case for a new science room, the parents of the country’s top young scientists are looking forward to seeing their bright young kids a little bit more.

Those were just some of the aspirations at Coláiste Treasa in Kanturk, where a bagpiper and school trad music group were just about audible over the screams and applause of 500 teenagers welcoming home their national champions — Eimear Murphy and Ian O’Sullivan.