THERE are two years left in the life of this Government — maybe less if the perpetual farrago of political storms keep brewing — and Eamon Ryan is in a hurry. As the lightning rod for much of the ire directed at the Government online for various policies — theContinue Reading
Serial entrepreneur Bobby Healy has developed a talent for spotting opportunity. The past three decades or so have seen him found several businesses, from games development from travel technology, with varying degrees of success. His new venture is quite literally taking off. Manna Aero has been working on beginning droneContinue Reading
Custom officers must check for many things: drugs, tobacco, animals and illegal firearms. From next year they will also be on the lookout for other items packed away in shipping containers – namely plastic knives and forks. For these seemingly benign items are among pollutants causing huge concern across Europe.Continue Reading
This summer, in the English town of Ringwood, Bretton, the local council ordered the felling of an oak tree it claimed risked causing structural damage to nearby houses. The tree, which is listed on the UK Woodland Trust’s ancient tree register, is known to be well over 600 years old.Continue Reading
The Irish Medtech Association, the Ibec group that represents the medtech sector, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland has announced the winners of the Irish Medtech Awards. The accolade of Medtech Company of the Year was awarded to Cerenovus, part of Johnson and Johnson MedTech. Ibec head of sectors, and directorContinue Reading
The Irish regime for issuing aquaculture licences is not sufficiently robust in how it evaluates risks to wild fish stocks and downplays the threat posed by sea lice arising from commercial salmon farms, according to Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan. In a letter to Minister for Food and theContinue Reading
LAST month, the World Health Organisation declared climate change ‘the single biggest health threat facing humanity’. It warned that global warming would lead to escalating physical and mental health problems. The signs are already there. A 2018 Belgian study found a positive relationship between temperatures rising above 21ºC and admissions toContinue Reading
17 August 2021 Six months ago, Callum Swift thought it would be hard to persuade other European Doctors that the climate crisis was going to affect their careers in every aspect over the next decade. Now the emergency medicine doctor says that it’s not going to take any persuasionContinue Reading
If you thought humans wearing facemasks to shops to buy their milk was a strange sight, wait until the cows who make the milk start wearing facemasks too. he ZELP – or Zero Emissions Livestock Production methane-reduction device – is designed to be worn by cows and is one ofContinue Reading
