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Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock TD today [Wednesday]) congratulated the two Dublin students, Mark Kelly and Eric Doyle from Synge Street CBS, who last night won a major award at the annual EU Young Scientist Competition in Bratislava for their mathematical project on ‘Simulation Accuracy in the Gravitational Many-body Problem’.

This follows their win at the BT Young Scientist and Technology awards earlier this year and also follows Alexander Amini’s (Castleknock College) notable success in this same EU Young Scientist competition last year.

"There is no doubt that Mark and Eric faced some stiff competition and we are very proud of their achievements in winning this top award, in the physics section of the prestigious EU Young Scientist Competition. They are an inspiration to their fellow students and I hope their achievements will serve to encourage more students to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects", said Minister Sherlock.

"This award demonstrates yet again the very high standards being achieved by our young people in the science, engineering and technology field and follows on from Alexander Amini’s great win in last year’s competition. It is most encouraging that Irish students continue to excel at these EU Young Scientist Awards, consistently outperforming our European neighbours, and we have now won over 30 prizes since our first participation in 1989. I think we can certainly say that the future is most definitely promising, with the calibre of enthusiastic and excellent science students that we have in our education system," Minister Sherlock added.