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Apart from being great fun, Tipperary’s annual Games Fleadh aims to get teenagers interested in a career in coding, writes Karlin Lillington

DRESSING UP as a Space Invader isn’t exactly in his job description as a lecturer in computer science at the Tipperary Institute of Technology, but Dr Phil Bourke gamely – pun intended – did just that at last year’s Games Fleadh (www. gamesfleadh.ie).