University College Cork (UCC)

UCC spin-out’s Wave device uses AI to offer hope of early intervention for newborns with brain injury

New gender equity approach sacrifices equality of opportunity and primacy of scientific excellence, traditional cornerstone criteria for awarding grants

Q&A with food analyst Ruth Hegarty: ‘There is a nutrition standard for hot school meals provided by the Government, but there is no oversight of this’

Across the first half of the 20th century few women went on to third-level education and, of these, fewer took science degrees

Lack of even a basic list raises questions about how the scheme was monitored

At a time of climate crisis, the new Government has a choice to make between carbon budgets and economic growth at all costs

The breakfast host seems to court listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mob

Research Lives: Aideen McCabe, PhD student, University College Cork

Ireland’s ability to reach its legally binding CO2 reduction targets by 2030 would be fatally undermined by the continued growth of data centres

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 the bridge between Ireland’s renewable energy potential and its climate commitments

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

University aims to return to financial sustainability following €8.6m deficit and falling student numbers

Fewer students awarded first-class degrees but proportion of high achievers is 40% higher than in 2015

Rich collection of essays, poems and reflections on a visionary who breathed life into Ireland’s musical tradition

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

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.

Report warns not cutting emissions risks greater long-term costs, stranded assets, and dependence on unproven carbon removal technologies after 2030

Doherty was best known for his written works on Michael Collins, Terence McSwiney and the Irish Civil War

Political parties must indicate how they will uphold and strengthen our carbon budgets