It may be twinned with Waterford, but the Maltese military’s ‘snub’ of an offer to take the naval vessel LÉ Aoife free of charge has angered Cork county councillors.

Talk about gratitude. The Government gifted a navy ship worth €400,000 to the Maltese but its military, instead of being grateful, torpedoed the idea.

An early-stage Dublin-based nanotechnology firm has secured €750,000 in seed funding from a consortium including Enterprise Ireland.