PHOTO CAPTION; Pictured (l-r) Dónal Martin (7) from Blackrock, Ava Connolly (9) from Leopardstown and Claudia Cunningham (6) from Castleknock.

The public vote for this year's Doodle 4 Google is open.

Almost 2400 entries have been whittled down to just 75 children around the country - who have the chance of being named Ireland’s top doodler and having their doodle displayed on the Google Ireland homepage for millions of people to see.

 Members of the public can vote for their favourite Doodle here

Voting will close at midnight on the 10th of March. The five most popular doodles, one from each age category, will go forward to the final and one of Google’s professional doodlers will select the overall winner.

The five class group winners and their teachers will receive a Chromebook each. The overall winner will have their doodle shown on the Google.ie homepage for a full day in March 2014 as well as receiving a scholarship of €5,000 for their third-level studies. In addition, the winner’s school will also receive a €10,000 technology grant as well as a Chromebook for both the overall winner and their teacher.

Last year's winner was Annie Coyle from St. Bernadette's Special School in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal;