The Centre for the Talented Youth (Ireland) (CTY Ireland) is a youth programme for students between the ages of six and seventeen of high academic ability in Ireland, run by Dr. Colm O'Reilly. There are sibling projects around the world, most notably the CTY programme at Johns Hopkins University, the original model for CTY Ireland. CTY students are eligible to participate in CTY's summer sessions for older students. CTY was founded in 1992, with its first summer programme running in 1993, and is based at Dublin City University in Glasnevin, Dublin 9. The centre offers various courses for gifted students as well as conducting research and promoting the needs of the talented in Ireland. Currently, it caters for 5,000 students a year Eligibility Eligibility for CTY's programmes is based on scores in the School and College Ability Test. Students who score within the top 5th percentile are eligible for the CTY programmes, and those who score within the top 10th percentile are eligible for the CAT programmes. Students who score within the top 15th percentile are eligible for the Summer Scholars program. CTY also allows for bright and motivated students to partake in courses such as the correspondence course, and scholarships can be attained for EUE or the secondary school summer programme. Students can also attend on a psychologist's recommendation. Primary School Programmes Saturday courses are offered for Primary School students at various colleges and institutes of technology around Ireland throughout the year. There are courses for both the 6–7 age group and the 8–13 group. DCU also run classes on Wednesday afternoons. Secondary School Programmes A summer programme for 12–17 year-olds (1st – 5th Year) as part of CAT or CTY runs only at DCU. These courses give students the opportunity to study college-style and college levelled courses intensively for three weeks in the summer in one of two sessions, each of which lasts three weeks. Because of the Irish financial situation up until recently, fewer people were been able to afford the steep cost of the programme, especially since the Government cut CTYI's funding in 2009. Since, students can now attend both sessions of the course, and the age bracket has been increased to include up to age seventeen. Some of the students at the summer programme come from overseas, mostly from continental countries such as Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Owing to the intensive nature of the programme,