These are busy times for Ronan Murphy and Smarttech247.

MaREI marine research institute, in UCC, is hosting an event entitled ‘Collaboration Opportunities for a Thriving Maritime Economy’ on Thursday, May 2, in the UCC Centre for Executive Education, 1 Lapps Quay, Cork.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has measured and recorded what it believes to be the first ever 'marsquake'.

The Indian Summer we have been experiencing in recent weeks is not just putting us in better form, but also the winemakers across Europe. 

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have won £55,000 in libel damages from the Sunday Times over a story which suggested that they had kept evidence from authorities investigating their daughter’s disappearance.

Ousted Rehab bosses Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery are almost certain to be forced to attend a public grilling to clarify still-unanswered questions about the charity’s finances before the Dáil’s summer break.

A joint initiative between DCU, NUI Galway, UCC and UCD focusing on the data analytics called Insight, is hoping to create 300 jobs through 12 planned spinout companies.

Three hundred jobs are to be created through a new centre for data analytics.

Research into wave energy and how to screen babies for diseases are among the five projects from University College Cork chosen for a funding boost.

Quest Software, the Cork-based company which agreed to be bought by a group led by Insight Venture Partners, says it has received a higher offer of $27.50 (€22) a share in cash, the third buyout increase announced this year.

Quest Software, which makes tools to help companies manage computer systems, has accepted a sweetened $2.17bn (€1.73bn) $25.75-a-share bid from Insight Venture Partners and agreed to the addition of Vector Capital to the buyout group.

Insight Venture Partners topped a $25.50-a-share bid that Quest Software received from an unidentified suitor, intensifying a takeover battle for the software maker, according to a person familiar with matter.

Quest Software, a maker of software to help companies manage cloud computer systems, rose above a new $25.50-a-share cash buyout offer from a strategic bidder that topped a previous agreement with Insight Venture Partners.

Quest Software rose above the $23-a-share offer from Insight Venture Partners to take the technology company private, signalling investors may anticipate higher bids.

SOFTWARE consultants Insight was awarded a €900,000 contract to renew their software testing and quality assurance services to the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, it was announced yesterday.

IRA men could not have been shot dead on Bloody Sunday and their deaths kept secret, the Saville Inquiry into the deaths of 13 civilians shot dead by paratroopers 30 year ago was told today.

Both the Provisional IRA and Official IRA gave orders to their members not to fire any shots on Bloody Sunday, but some did, a distinguished journalist who carried out a major investigation of the killings 30 years ago told the Saville Inquiry today.