The finalists for the 2018 BT Young Scientist Exhibition have been announced.

Changes in the design of mobile phone handsets and a reduction in the number of faulty telephone lines have contributed to a significant decline in the number of 112 and 999 calls, according to the Department of Communications.

Local authorities are facing multi-million funding shortfalls following confirmation that there will be no Government compensation this year following a rates review.

Exploring their passions, making money, and job satisfaction are equally driving Irish teenagers in the careers to which they aspire.

BT Ireland is “frustrated” and “disappointed” by the delay in the rollout of the National Broadband Plan, which it claims is due to rival Eir “chopping and changing” its plans.

A host of major contract wins helped BT Ireland to underlying annual revenue growth of 7% to the end of March.

The telecoms industry is in a period of huge upheaval that will see $300bn (€260bn) of revenue wiped from traditional telecoms across the world in the coming decade.

The country’s two biggest cities were boosted by major announcements yesterday as more than 100 jobs came on stream in Dublin and Cork’s first internet exchange opened for business.

Emergency call operators will commence a month-long work to rule from today. 

Further industrial action by a number of 999 operators following yesterday’s 12-hour work stoppage is being considered, the Communications Workers’ Union has warned.

Calls to the Samaritans have jumped by 30% in the last year — as more and more people in distress contact the charity.

BT Ireland yesterday announced all-island financial results for the year to the end of March with profit up 4% on a yearly basis.

The company that handles 999/112 emergency calls saw a significant drop in the number of calls made to the service in 2014.

Pre-tax profits at the Irish arm of BT Ireland last year increased by 10% to €31m in spite of revenues dropping to €434.2m.

It has become something of a cliché to say that Ireland’s greatest natural resource is its young people.

Large multinationals could move at least part of their operations out of Ireland as a result of the car crash-like fallout that could ensue should US authorities force Microsoft to hand over data stored in Irish data centres.

Last month, Pádraig Harrington told us, on the back of Europe’s Ryder Cup win, that Paul McGinley could do a job managing in the Premier League.

Clare County Council is set to proceed with legal action against telephone companies that have left phone kiosks in a "ruinous, derelict, and neglected" condition.

Revenues grew by 2% at BT Ireland last year, as the communications services provider further boosted its customer base on the back of increasing demand for fibre broadband.

Calls to the Samaritans are now free.

The Department of Communications has responded to social media criticism over the time it took to pinpoint the location of a drowning man in Cork City.

We must aspire to be a republic of creativity, President Michael D Higgins declared as he opened the 50th BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS, Dublin.

The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition gets underway today.

Three teenagers from Cork have scooped a top prize at the EU’s Young Scientist competition.

The widow of the drowned skipper of the doomed Tit Bonhomme trawler has called for an immediate review of how the 999 calls from the sinking vessel were handled the morning of the tragedy.

The company which operates the 999 emergency calls system has defended its staff for the way in which they handled two desperate 999 calls made from a mobile phone on the stricken Tit Bonhomme after it struck Adam’s Island.

BT Ireland has reported a 4% increase in annual revenue for the 12 months to the end of March.

A Nigerian woman has been awarded €13,000 in compensation against her employer, BT Ireland, after the Equality Tribunal found she had been discriminated against on racial grounds.

BT’s Irish operations grew revenue by 5%, on a year-on-year basis, in the group’s third quarter, covering the three months to the end of December.

A tired but exhilarated BT Ireland team are reflecting on what was certainly the best ever BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

There were jubilant scenes in Dublin last night as a Co Cork school celebrated winning the BT Young Scientist award for the third time in seven years.

A Chinese company which has overtaken Ericsson as the world’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment is to create 50 jobs here.

A leading information and communications technology solutions provider is doubling its Irish workforce with 50 new jobs.

Student interest in technology appears to be reaching new heights as record entries have been received for the annual schools’ science and technology fair.

Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly are already working on a formula on how to invest their €7,000 prize after being crowned Europe’s top young physicists at a ceremony in Slovakia.

The Irish internet speed record has been smashed by UPC who has recorded the highest speed ever of more than 1.4 gigabits per second download.

Calls to the Samaritans are expected to be free of charge from next year onwards after the charity concluded an agreement with Ireland's six largest telecoms companies.

Oscar and Bafta-winning producer David Puttnam yesterday delivered the first of a series of lectures from his West Cork home to university students in Australia.

Telecom companies have assured the public that law officers are only seeking access to data on customers when it is necessary for investigations.

Gardaí, the Defence Forces, and Revenue Commissioners are accessing record levels of private landline, mobile phone, and internet records.