James Maloney

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Enterprise Ireland hosted an innovation arena for the sixth year at this year’s National Ploughing Championships. Photograph: Collins
Ground-breaking agritech recognised in innovation awards

Technology capable of recognising individual cows, a portable diagnostic kit for vets, an automated livestock feeding system and a quick-fix solution (...)

Rathfarnham, circa 1905. Photograph: National Library Ireland/Flickr Commons
A murder, a moustache and the scourge of Rathfarnham

In Rathfarnham, people were terrified of Peter “Garibaldi” Wade. For years, the 25-year-old had worked a day here and there in manual labour and spen(...)

Agritechnica trade fair in Germany: Irish exhibitors this year include Combilift, Malone Farm Machinery, Athlone Extrusions, Mastek, and Burnside Autocy. Photograph: Getty Images
Agritechnica 2017: Putting Irish agri-tech on the international map

Enterprise Ireland is leading a group of 18 companies to fly the flag for the Irish agri-tech sector this week at Agritechnica 2017 in Hanover, German(...)

Governor Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate, is named after his Sligo grandfather Richard Michael Cawley, a Chicago bus driver, with whom he was “especially close”. Photograph: Mark Makela/The New York Times
VP debate: Irish-Americans Tim Kaine and Mike Pence to lock horns

One Capitol Hill staffer recalls a question asked at a table quiz in Washington a few years ago: who is the only member of Congress to have cut turf i(...)