If ever there was proof anyone can learn to code, it is Tiernan Mangan, who at just five years old will be debuting his very first game at today's CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards. "He was a sneaky ...

Gordon Hunt joined Silicon Republic in October 2014 as a journalist. He spends most of his time avoiding conversations about music, appreciating even the least creative pun and rueing the day he ...

Darragh Walsh flashes a small electronic tag against the back of his smartphone and begins to explain how his self-designed app allows people to keep tabs on each other's movements. Stop listening for ...

CoderDojo is among several organisations competing for a €775,000 prize fund in the 2012 Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awards. The finalists will spend the next three months vying with others for a ...

The story of CoderDojo is well known: Cork teenager James Whelton set up a computer club in his school, spotted a gap for kids interested in computer coding and found an angel investor, Australian ...

The youngest ever eircom Spider Award winner was announced last night at the annual internet award ceremony at the National Convention Centre, Dublin. The youngest ever eircom Spider Award winner was ...

They are a formidable new force in the tech world – tween developers with world-class coding skills and firsthand insights into the games kids really want to play. At the forefront of this wave of ...

Three innovative teens from Killorglin Community College are hoping to crack the coding competition circuit with their impressive idea of setting up a new contest for youngsters in Kerry. Second year ...

Two organizations working to get kids interested in technology are coming together. The Raspberry Pi Foundation, maker of the bite-sized Raspberry Pi computer, on Friday announced it is merging with ...

Matthew Malen is only 12 and already he knows how to code, develop websites, apps and games. On Thursday this Irish native spent the morning teaching a handful of San Francisco middle school students ...

On Saturday afternoon a group of 30 pint size wannabe hackers gathered at the GitHub offices in San Francisco for the first CoderDojo in the United States. Irish teen sensation, James Whelton had ...