Dublin maths teacher battles for Branson investment

A maths teacher from Dublin is in with chance to win a major investment from Richard Branson.

Brian Arnold co-founder of a website which provides free tutorials to maths students around the world.

HegartyMaths.com is leading a competition to win 150,000 pounds sterling from the Virgin boss.

Mr Arnold has said that winning would help the site reach a new audience.

"One of the big things it will do is it will allow us access to schools across the UK and Ireland, and work with current providers, and getting that business advice and mentoring from Virgin Media would be absolutely huge," said Mr Arnold.

"The Virgin group provide internet for most of the schools across the UK, which would allow us to get the website into pretty much every school."

The Clontarf man is encouraging people to vote on virginmediabusiness.co.uk.