A dispute over whether University College Dublin is entitled to a 15% shareholding in a fast-growing company involved in developing commercial processes for global pharmaceutical giants has come before the Commercial Court.

You’re called up by the Clare senior hurlers. You stroll into the dressing room your first night and you want to make friends. Shane O’Donnell, hat-trick hero of the 2013 All-Ireland final replay: you’ll chat to him, maybe about what he’s at in UCC.

Cork-based Atlantia provides clinical research for companies on the health benefits of their products

Cork scientists have identified an “arsenal” of new natural alternatives to antibiotics.

Dublin pharmaceutical R&D company, APC, is using revolutionary technology to help pharmaceutical companies bring new medicines to the market quickly.

Forget the latest diet. Eat to nourish your gut and expect to reap the benefits: better mental health, high energy and weight loss, says Clodagh Finn.

At least 300 jobs have been announced across the country by three companies.

THE difference between optimism and wishful thinking is the difference between achievement and disappointment. It is also the difference between building on solid foundations or on sand. 

Some 450 jobs are being created with an expansion by accountancy and consultancy giant Deloitte and new research positions at a pharma firm.

Fifty jobs will be created at a hi-tech future foods and smart medicine research centre in University College Cork which will today be designated a national institute.

The IRFU has enlisted the aid of a cutting-edge healthcare company based in Cork to ensure its players are in top physical shape for next month’s World Cup.

I have Asperger’s Syndrome and two of my five wonderful children are also on the autism spectrum.

Irish scientists have signed a €4.8m research deal with a British pharmaceutical company to develop new drugs which target the gut and treat symptoms of autism.

British Ebola victim William Pooley told of Sierra Leone’s poverty and his brushes with the country’s political elite shortly before he was struck down by the potentially deadly virus.

Shots have been fired at a Ukrainian air force base in Crimea that has been blocked off by Russian forces.

THE announcement last week of a €50m Government and industry research investment for the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre of food and medicine underlines its growing status as a national centre for food and medicine research excellence.

A Cork-based food and health research facility is to receive €50m in funding from the Government and private industry, with more than 100 jobs to be created by the investment.

A Cork-based research centre is to benefit from a €50m cash injection.

Mice raised without bacteria in the gut showed distinctly autistic patterns of behaviour, choosing to interact with objects more than other mice, scientists at University College Cork (UCC) have found.

JOSEF PAVELKA died last week, a celebrity and a ‘nobody’.

Ask any cut-and-thrust surgeon about a hard day’s work and he or she is likely to say something like: “It was bedlam today.

CECILY Brennan’s punchy paintings of angry red limbs torn up with eczema are so convincing that staff from UCC’s Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) praised their accuracy.

SIX senior level Cork-based food researchers have been named in the top 20 of 15,000 specialist authors in a global list compiled by the global ratings agency, Thomson Reuters Science Watch.

IRISH scientists have designed probiotics that can be used to modulate the physiology of host fat cells, a finding which could prove useful in controlling conditions such as obesity.

SOCCER legend Niall Quinn has urged men to visit their GP for regular check-ups for the early detection of prostate cancer.

STUDENTS at UCC have created a range of innovative food products. The products include Mílóir, a new spread that combines honey and cream cheese that can be used for dinner, lunch, snacking or as a dip.

Less than one third of men know age is the single biggest risk factor in developing prostate cancer, it emerged today.

BALLOT counting was under way in Sierra Leone last night, a day after presidential and legislative elections seen as a test of whether the African nation has emerged from its bloody past.

Campaigners demanding fairer trade deals between Africa and Europe will take their protest to the streets of Dublin today.

AN educational computer game that takes players on a bacteria-blasting journey through the human gut has been developed by University College Cork.

A US firm is to invest €1m in developing a European research and development centre in Galway.

It has been reported that the US-owned Electronics company, APC, is to seek voluntary redundancies at its plants in Galway and Castlebar.

The Israeli army exploded a two-story building containing a suspected bomb lab south-east of a West Bank refugee camp as reporters looked on yesterday.