Science teachers call for Ireland to join Cern

It is “high time” Ireland joins the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), a body representing science teachers in Ireland has said.

The Irish Science Teachers Association (ISTA) said Ireland’s presence in Cern would allow researchers to achieve similar discoveries that had changed the face of science and medicine.

UCC president, Patrick O’Shea, and world-renowned UCD particle physicist Ronan McNulty are among leading academics who support joining Cern, Cork senator Colm Burke said.