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Hot school meals scheme: ‘We are institutionalising consumption of ultra-processed food in our children’
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Why have women won so few Nobel Prizes?
Across the first half of the 20th century few women went on to third-level education and, of these, fewer took science degrees
Let’s get real: Ireland’s data centre boom is driving up fossil fuel dependence
At a time of climate crisis, the new Government has a choice to make between carbon budgets and economic growth at all costs
‘The records sought do not exist’: ‘Golden visas’ granted under €1.25bn scheme but no list of investment beneficiaries
Lack of even a basic list raises questions about how the scheme was monitored
At Newstalk, Ciara Kelly gets righteously annoyed
The breakfast host seems to court listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mob
Decoding early signals to catch ovarian cancer sooner
Research Lives: Aideen McCabe, PhD student, University College Cork
The Irish Times view on data centres and climate: no more development without a renewables boost
Ireland’s ability to reach its legally binding CO2 reduction targets by 2030 would be fatally undermined by the continued growth of data centres
Data centre boom under AI growth in Ireland threatening climate targets, report warns
Friends of the Earth calls for ‘moratorium on new data centres and expansion of existing ones until robust legislative framework is in place’
Electrification is Ireland’s missing climate link
Electrification is the bridge between Ireland’s renewable energy potential and its climate commitments
How 485 million years of Earth’s temperature history reveals climate tipping points and extinction risks
At 13.9 degrees, there is much scope for Earth’s surface to get a lot warmer, as demonstrated by new study on its temperature history
TU Dublin appoints senior civil servant as next president
University aims to return to financial sustainability following €8.6m deficit and falling student numbers
Grade inflation falls at Irish universities following concern over integrity of degrees
Fewer students awarded first-class degrees but proportion of high achievers is 40% higher than in 2015
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music: Stellar capture of irrepressible force of nature
Rich collection of essays, poems and reflections on a visionary who breathed life into Ireland’s musical tradition
Food historian Regina Sexton: As an island of farmers, we have moved far away from food production
Cork-based food historian on the exploitation of young people’s good intentions, her home city’s food links to slavery and the importance of oats
Carl and Gerty Cori: a Nobel Prizewinning husband and wife team
Prague-born couple Carl and Gerty advanced knowledge of how the body produces and stores energy. They shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for this work.
Ireland not acting aggressively enough to hit climate targets – UCC study
Report warns not cutting emissions risks greater long-term costs, stranded assets, and dependence on unproven carbon removal technologies after 2030
Tributes paid to ‘outstanding’ Cork historian Gabriel Doherty after his death at 56
Doherty was best known for his written works on Michael Collins, Terence McSwiney and the Irish Civil War
Golden rice could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year
Evidence on the genetically modified crop is overwhelming: it poses no dangers while offering fantastic life-saving potential
Election 2024: Will parties stand firm on the climate law?
Political parties must indicate how they will uphold and strengthen our carbon budgets
University open days: when they take place and what makes each university unique
Key details about 2024-2025 open days for UCC, UCD, TCD, UL, Maynooth University, University of Galway, DCU and RCSI
John Creedon: ‘I was always being sent away, not because they didn’t love me, but because they couldn’t cope’
Broadcaster and author reflects on an unusual childhood in Cork, constant low-level anxiety and presenting Winning Streak without understanding the rules
Trinity College Dublin drops five places to 139th in world university rankings
Of the nine Irish universities ranked five dropped, three remained in same position, and one, Dublin City University, improved
Atlas of the Irish Civil War. New Perspectives: History presented with imagination and innovation
Issues raised in third volume of historical series are at core of concerns still with us today
A climate change paradox: instead of worrying about not being seen as moral enough, politicians don’t want to appear too moral
A study among UK MPs found many feared being seen as zealots - but has an Irish TD found a better way?
Ireland’s fossil fuel usage peaked in 2008, but do we have the will to end it?
Climate change science shows us that meeting our energy needs by burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide
Intermittent short bursts of exercise dramatically improve your health
Latest discovery represents most exciting and important health news announced for some time
We asked a renter, a landlord, a pensioner, a carer and a wheelchair user what they want from Budget 2025
‘It was alright before my husband died. But on my own, coming into the winter, I am worried’
‘What’s up with the dude wall?’ Rows of portraits of men should have no place in Irish education
The problem with academic portraiture is that it sustains the myths of meritocracy and obscures privilege
Victim of Tuskar Rock air crash awarded posthumous degree by UCC
Michael Cowhig had submitted thesis to UCC shortly before tragedy in which 61 died
Graduate programme: ‘My work placement provided an excellent transition’
Leah Carroll studied engineering in UCC before joining the Irish Distillers Internship programme
Happiness is not considered to be an important goal in some cultures
Some researchers have found that striving to achieve happiness leads to thinking that time is scarce, which produces unhappiness
Paschal Donohoe on Atlas of Finance: Wonderful illumination of our economies and histories
Dariusz Wójcik’s book maps and visualises brilliantly an analysis of millions of financial data points
‘A stark example of the apartheid’: An Irish doctor on working in the West Bank
'It’s a trauma-manufacturing machine what’s happening – not just Gaza, but in the West Bank too'
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