Frank Barry
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The euro 20 years on: Ireland’s long journey to currency union
- Economy
- January 2, 2019, 05:59
Sometimes European politics has found a way to take a step forward. At a summit of European Union leaders in the Dutch town of Maastricht in December (...)

Is Ireland’s booming economy just an illusion?
- Economy
- March 30, 2018, 06:35
A slew of data about the Irish economy published in the past two weeks all points to a remarkable turnaround in the State’s economic fortunes. Headl(...)

Varadkar and Trudeau: is it bromance or just another photo-op?
- Politics
- August 19, 2017, 06:00
We are living through a golden period of Canadian-Irish relations, if we are to take the level of engagement between the two governments at face value(...)

Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland has bowed to US firms since 1950s
- Opinion
- September 2, 2016
Both Donald Trump and Minister for Finance Michael Noonan have been talking potatoes recently. The two go back some way, most memorably when, excrucia(...)

Orbsen Therapeutics to take part in €6m liver disease clinical trial
- Health & Pharma
- April 22, 2014, 13:50
Orbsen Therapeutics, a spin-out from NUI Galway’s Regenerative Medicine Institute (Remedi) has announced plans to partner with the University o(...)

Stem cell trials on tackling osteoarthritis may lead to treatment in five years
- Irish News
- March 26, 2014, 01:01
Researchers in Galway predict that stem cells could be used to treat osteoarthritis withi(...)

Innovation Awards profile: Orbsen Therapeutics - Stem cell research
- Business
- February 10, 2014, 01:00
Breakthroughs in stem cell research tend to be announced with quite some fanfare but this was very deliberately not the case with Orbsen Therapeutics.(...)

Ireland’s first stem cell manufacturing centre approved at NUI Galway
- Health
- January 27, 2014, 01:00
Stem cells can be manufactured for human use for the first time in Ireland, following Irish Medicines Board licensing of a new facility in Galway.NUI (...)

Foreign investment flow increased last year, according to latest statistics
- Ireland
- October 5, 2013, 01:09
Colm KeenaPublic Affairs CorrespondentForeign direct investment into Ireland in 2012 was €30 billion, up from €17 billion the previous year, according(...)

Diners bite into world’s first stem cell burger
- Agribusiness & Food
- August 5, 2013, 01:00
The world’s most expensive hamburger will be served in a London restaurant today, made entirely from synthetic meat at a cost of €250,000.A live strea(...)