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Borrisoleigh student’s LGBTQ+ social media platform wins Big Idea award

A team of students from St Joseph’s College Borrisoleigh has won in the equality category of this year’s Big Idea Challenge competition. The winning team IEJ INC. made up of Isaac Brophy, Jessica Murphy, and Emma Davis, won their award for their ...

06 Jun 2022 at 21:33

School Days

Kilkenny Youthreach scoops national award with creative Big Idea for the future

A group of Kilkenny teenagers have scooped a national award for their Big Idea! The Kilkenny Youthreach team was keen to provide a winning solution for ‘Mental Health - Spaces and Places’ and did so with 'The Lounge,' a concept for a new type ...

21 May 2022 at 14:33

Whats on

Carlow teens focus creativity on mental health and climate change challenges

Two-thousand students from schools nationwide, including two schools from Carlow, Borris Vocational School and St Leo's College, are nearing the end of The Big Idea programme as they submit their projects to the 400 mentors and judges this ...

19 May 2022 at 13:33

Rare Henry Moore sculpture sold for eight times estimate after bidding war

A sculpture by pioneering British artist Henry Moore has sold for £400,000 at auction after a bidding war. The lead sculpture, titled Mother And Child, is considered “extremely rare” as it is a material the sculptor used only for a short ...

16 Mar 2022 at 15:55

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Kilkenny innovators encouraged to “Be the change you seek” and apply to Social Entrepreneurs Ireland

Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) is encouraging people from Kilkenny who have an innovative idea to solve a particular social problem to “be the change you seek” by applying for a place on its Ideas Academy – aimed at those with an ...

24 Feb 2022 at 09:33

Arts & Entertainment

Carlow students scoop national awards with creative Big Ideas for the future

A group of transition year students from Carlow have scooped the national award for the country’s best Big Idea with their concept for technology that would give loyalty points and rewards for recycling. Around 2,000 students from ...

25 May 2022 at 19:33

Business

Winners of the inaugural IDEAS Kilkenny competition for innovative start-ups revealed

The final of the inaugural IDEAS Kilkenny competition, an initiative of the Local Enterprise Office was held in Langton House Hotel on Tuesday, May 31. This initiative has launched back in March 2022 during Local Enterprise Week ...

01 Jun 2022 at 18:33

South Donegal

Ballyshannon Danny's new album launch a mixture of ‘Wisdom & Graft’

Ballyshannon man Danny O’Connor, who has plied his musical trade in Berlin for over a decade, has just launched his new album which is available to purchase in the popular 'Novel Idea' shop in Ballyshannon this week. The ...

06 Oct 2022 at 17:33

School Days

Big Ideas from Kilkenny students in nationwide project

Students from two Kilkenny groups have just submitted their projects to the nationwide Big Idea programme. The teenagers from Kilkenny Youthreach and Castlecomer Community School took part in the programme to find ...

14 May 2022 at 14:33

Jobs

Creativity and critical thinking programme recruiting Carlow mentors for Irish students

Irish product designer Kim Mackenzie-Doyle, founder of The Big Idea, says the free education programme is rocketing ahead teaching teens to solve problems through creative thinking. The design trailblazer behind ...

16 Jun 2022 at 15:33

Entertainment

Booker Prize shortlist author Deborah Levy ‘inspired to write by schoolteacher’

Booker Prize-nominated author Deborah Levy has told how she was inspired to write by a schoolteacher in South Africa. The novelist, 62, whose books Hot Milk and Swimming Home both made the Booker Prize ...

16 Jan 2022 at 01:25

Local News

Derry students take part in national creative thinking programme 'The Big Idea'

Students from Lisneal College have taken part in this years multi-award-winning programme, The Big Idea. They participated alongside learners aged 15 to 19 years from 22 counties, from Transition Year,...

09 May 2023 at 17:33

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