Twitter trolls may have met their match after their criticism of the BT Young Scientist winning project was drowned out by praise for Cork youngsters Alan O'Sullivan and Cormac Harris.

Their project, entitled "a statistical investigation into the prevalence of gender stereotyping in 5 to 7-year-olds and the development of an initiative to combat gender bias” drew plaudits from competition judges and members of the public.

Professor Joe Barry, the head judge of the Social and Behavioural Sciences category, said that the project was "particularly impressive in that Cormac and Alan also created very pertinent and useable resources for primary school teachers to combat gender stereotyping among young children.”

However the project was not to everyone's taste, and predictably enough there were some people on Twitter who felt the need to criticise the work of the two young men from Cork.

One Twitter user said the project was "ideology not science".

Another said that "social science is not real science", although the clue seems to be in the name.

Alan and Cormac were impressive when speaking on the Late Late Show last night, and you can watch the video below to see them discussing their project with Ryan Tubridy:

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And it seems the Irish public agree that the Colaiste Choilm students were worthy winners of the prestigious prize, with praise coming from all corners for their brilliant achievement and project.

What do you think?