Cork students win Young Scientist title

Taoiseach Brian Cowen led the tributes to the joint winners of the 2009 BT Young Scientist of the Year title last night.

The pair, John D. O'Callaghan, 14, and Liam McCarthy, 13 , second-year students from Kinsale Community School, Co Cork, were entered in the Biological and Ecological Sciences category, junior section, with their groundbreaking test to establish the health of cattle using washing up liquid.