SWEET DEAL:Here's a tasty business idea for your mini-company: sell chocolates. The Hope Foundation has teamed up with Butler's Irish Chocolates for this idea, with all profits going to the Hope Foundation, which works to provide education, healthcare, shelter and nutrition to Indian street children. For more information, visit www.hopefoundation.info and click on the Hope Projects link.

TONGUE-TIED:With funds so tight for Transition Year, the All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad – a competition in which teams or individuals use their ingenuity, creativity, and skill to solve language-related problems – will cost nothing. Indeed, funds can be made available through an Education and Outreach Programme to cover the cost of visiting Dublin for the national final, as well as the cost of visiting Poland for the international final. Tel: 01-7006704 for more information or E-mail Cara Greene (cara.greene@dcu.ie) www.cngl.ie/ailo