Day: January 10, 2013

Millstreet Community School Wonderfully Represented at BT Young Scientists Exhibition 2013 in Dublin’s R.D.S.

We thank teacher, Chris Horan for the following superb update on the tremendous involvement of Millstreet Community School with the currently running prestigious BT Young Scientists Exhibition at the R.D.S. in Dublin.  Clearly the very talented and enthusiastic Students very much impressed the Taoiseach and the Minister.   Sincere congratulations to the Students and their Teachers – Ambassadors supreme for Millstreet – and we wish them all the very best of luck.   (S.R.)

Darragh Hickey, Seán O'Callaghan and Nathan Harman explain their G.A.A. Ranking Algorithm to Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
Darragh Hickey, Seán O’Callaghan and Nathan Harman explain their “G.A.A. Ranking Algorithm” to Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
Nathan Harman, Simon Coveney (Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine), Darragh Hickey and Seán O'Callaghan.
Nathan Harman, Simon Coveney (Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine), Darragh Hickey and Seán O’Callaghan.
Nathan Harman, Darragh Hickey, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Seán O'Callaghan and teacher Shane Guerin.
Nathan Harman, Darragh Hickey, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Seán O’Callaghan and teacher Shane Guerin.

BT Young Scientists

Millstreet maintained its remarkable record in qualifying for the finals in the RDS in January.This year’s project involves research into an “Algorithm for ranking Gaelic Football Teams”. The team will investigate ranking formulae in other sports and then devise a method most suited to Gaelic Football. They intend analysing 5 years of results in both league and championship and will give each win a points score based on several criteria. This will be perfectly placed to facilitate an open draw seeding process which would be needed prior to an open-draw championship. Up to 2,000 projects vied for the final places, and with just over 500 qualifying, it is already a big success. Best of luck to Nathan Harman, Seán O’Callaghan and Darragh Hickey in their research and a big thank you to the Community Council for their continued support to the school’s Young Scientist initiative.  (Chris Horan)

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The lads were interviewed Matt Cooper for yesterday’s Last Word Radio Show (TodayFm 4:30PM Mon-Fri)
You can listen to it on their Listen Back Media Player for the next few days. The lads are on from 31:45 – 33:40.

See all the news on the Millstreet Community School website

Radical shake-up for Cork Garda

The Examiner reports today on the impending changes to the way the Gardaí do business in Cork County – below are a few points of note:

  • “By April, it is expected the Cobh and Kanturk Garda districts will cease to exist. Garda stations in the Kanturk district such as Boherbue, Ballydesmond, Rathmore, and Millstreet will come under the control of Macroom.”
  • “From the end of this month all calls from North and East Cork will be transferred to the city control centre and by the end of next month it will also deal with calls from West Cork.”
  • “A new computerised system is to be launched by gardaí in Cork as part of a radical shake-up of the force in the city and county which, it is claimed, will improve their service to the public.”

Read the full article on today’s Irish Examiner