What would you love to see by 2020?

NIALL MEEHAN(18)

6th Year Firhouse Community, College, Dublin

“In the next 20 years, I’d really like to see a big discovery made in the area of light- speed travel. That subject really interests me.”

ANGEL LI (16)

6th Year Maryfield College, Drumcondra, Dublin

“I would love it if a cure for deafness were found in the next decades. Science and music are my two favourite things in life, so hearing is v ery important to me.”

DARRAGH McGRATH (17)

6th Year Clonkeen College, Meath.

“The most important discovery needed in the coming decades is a renewable energy source.”

WHAT SCIENCE DO YOU LIKE MOST?

DARREN CARTHY(18)

6th Year Scoil, Muire Community College Clane, Kildare

“I’m interested in astronomy and the universe, dark matter and stuff like that. I’d like to see more research done into anti-matter.”

PATRICIA MONKS (17)

6th Year, Maryfield College, Drumcondra, Dublin

“I like chemistry the most because I love the way everything is made up of loads of little things. I love that if you look into a microscope, you can see all the little atoms and everything.”

AOIFE RYAN (18)

Loreto Beaufort, Rathfarnham, Dublin

“My favourite aspect of science would be genetics in biology. I had never known anything about it before and am only starting to understand it now. So it’s a new and interesting topic for me.”