The centre offers various courses for gifted students as well as conducting research and promoting the needs of the talented in Ireland.

[3] Saturday courses are offered for primary school students at various colleges and institutes of technology around Ireland throughout the year.

A summer programme for 12–17 year-olds (1st – 5th year) as part of CAT or CTY runs only at DCU premises.

[1] Because of the Irish financial situation in the mid-2000s, fewer people were able to afford the cost of the programme, especially after the Government cut CTYI's funding in 2009.

[citation needed] Some of the students at the summer programme come from overseas, mostly from continental countries such as Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

[citation needed] Activities take place from 3.15pm to 5pm, supervised by the residential assistants (RAs), while from 5pm and 6:30pm students have dinner and are required to attend a meeting with their RA group.

[citation needed] 6:30pm to 8:30pm is taken up by the study period, which is supervised by the teaching assistant, and social time takes place between 8:30pm and 10pm, with lights-out at 10.30pm.

[citation needed] On weekends, social activities such as discos, shopping trips, visits to the cinema, excursions to various interesting sights in Ireland and talent shows are organised.

[citation needed] Dr. Colm O'Reilly – Director Dr. Catriona Ledwith – Assistant Director Dr. Leeanne Hinch – Academic Coordinator Dr. Orla Dunne – Residential Coordinator Ms. Lynne Mooney – Young Student Manager Ms. Linda Murphy – Post-Primary Manager Ms. Ruth Lally- Post-Primary Administrator Ms. Cathy Woods – Early University Entrance Administrator Ms. Hazel Skinner - Early University Entrance Administrator As the on-site programmes available for students are part-time and/or short-term, most of the staff associated with these programmes are contracted for a set period of time.

It was announced in the post-crash 2009 Irish budget that the government would not continue directly contributing to CTYI funding.

The move to withdraw funding was criticised by CTYI staff but a spokesperson for the Department of Education said that "the resources available for next year meant that difficult choices had to be made and the abolition of the grant to the Centre for Talented Youth was one of those tough decisions."