abstract:Sarah Flannery (born 1982, County Cork, Ireland) was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Technologies during a brief internship there. The project, entitled "Cryptography – A new algorithm versus the RSA", also won her the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award for 1999.
In the first count, Mr Dwyer received 40, 122 (36.84%) votes, Mr Stockton, an executive board member for Halton Borough Council, got 30, 974 (28.44%) and SarahFlannery (Independent) received 18, 596 (17.08%).