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Ireland could eliminate Covid-19 ‘within months’ with tighter restrictions
- Health
- July 6, 2020, 00:02
Ireland can eliminate Covid-19 over the course of the summer but repeatedly imposing, lifting and reimposing restrictions is a dangerous gamble, accor(...)

PPE decontamination methods under scrutiny as shortage persists
- Health
- May 11, 2020, 03:00
Widespread shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers persist and are being exacerbated by continuing problems with globa(...)

Expert warns major challenges are not being faced around housing
- Social Affairs
- April 15, 2019, 20:25
Renting will become impossibly expensive for tens of thousands of people unable to get a mortgage or social housing unless the State delivers affordab(...)

'Thundering disgrace' - Business hits out at North’s lack of Brexit influence
- Economy
- April 12, 2019, 05:15
“Pandora’s Box has been opened and people want something,” says Angela McGowan, the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) regional director for No(...)

Normandy political, business leaders discuss post-Brexit plans in Dublin
- Economy
- January 28, 2019, 01:45
Political and business leaders from Normandy visited Dublin last week to discuss contingency plans for Brexit including cargo ships travelling directl(...)

US-China trade war and Brexit expose ‘complexity’ of global trade
- Economy
- November 19, 2018, 18:57
The escalating US-China trade war and Brexit have exposed the extent and complexity of global supply chains and ultimately the dangers of acting unila(...)

Belfast-based unit aims to reduce vulnerability to cyber threats
- Innovation
- August 30, 2018, 04:15
Prof Maire O’Neill is a Queen’s University, Belfast cybersecurity expert who knows that even something as innocent as a toy doll can be corrupted by (...)

UCC cuts the jargon in new Instagram campaign
- Science
- August 30, 2018, 01:00
University College Cork has successfully launched a social media campaign aimed at presenting complex ideas and research in a straightforward way to a(...)

Are biologically based plastics a realistic replacement for petrochemical plastics?
- Science
- January 29, 2018, 10:11
As environmental campaigners highlight the ecological damage caused to fish and birds (and ultimately humans through the food chain) by plastics made (...)

Irish sea level rising 3.5cm a decade since the early 1990s
- Environment
- December 7, 2017, 18:48
There has been a large rise in sea levels around Ireland in recent decades, and the trend is going to accelerate over the next century. This will test(...)