Three students from Cork have made it into Time Magazine's list of the top 25 most influential teenagers in the world.

16-year-old Ciara Judge, and 17-year-olds Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow scooped the top prize at the Google Science Fair in California last month for their discovery of bacteria that deposits nitrogen from the atmosphere into soil.

The girls from Kinsale Community College join the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and the daughters of US President Barack Obama on the list.