An 18-year-old student from west Cork has won the top prize at the prestigious Google Science Fair in the United States.
Fionn Ferreira, from Ballydehob, was announced as the overall winner at Google's international headquarters in California this evening.
His project suggests a new way to filter microplastics from water by using magnets.
Fionn was one of 24 global finalists chosen from a shortlist of 100 regional entries who competed for the top prize of a $50,000 bursary.
The event is widely seen as the most prestigious STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) student competition in the world.
Fionn sat his Leaving Certificate last month at Schull Community College and is due to attend university in the Netherlands in the autumn.
He also works as a curator at the Schull Planetarium, has won 12 science fair awards, speaks three languages fluently, and plays the trumpet at orchestra level.
He even has had a minor planet named after him by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory.
