Elizabeth O’Neill learned the hard way that competence and confidence are

Whenever we do stuff like Stoptober or Movember, it’s always to benefit ourselves. Movember is all about showing your awareness of prostate cancer by sporting a great big freshly-grown moustache which gets you extra likes on Facebook, while only the most uni-cellular amongst us need the benefits of stopping smoking in Stoptober spelled out.

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Facebook has come under fire after carrying out a psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 people without their knowledge.

One of the world’s most powerful businesswomen will discuss women leadership in business at an invite-only conference in UCC today.

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More intimidating than a midtown skyscraper and more confusing than Leaving Cert maths — tipping sends Irish tourists into a cold sweat even as they are supposed to be enjoying the white heat of the New York restaurant scene.

Robert C Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died at the age of 75.

Chuck Feeney, the grandson of an immigrant from Fermanagh, is not a household name.

As Steven Sinofsky prepares for the release of Windows 8, the world waits to see if it will restore the Microsoft brand and set him up for its top job, writes Bill Rigby

TRINITY College Dublin (TCD) has been ranked as the world’s 15th-best university for mathematics.

A former Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned during Brazil’s long dictatorship was elected president of Latin America’s biggest nation.

A CONSORTIUM of scientists have published the first genome for wheat, an achievement that should benefit food security challenged by Earth’s surging population, climate change and an emerging plant pest.

Two building workers were killed and one was seriously injured when a crane collapsed in a Manhattan neighbourhood, smashing into a 23-storey apartment building as it fell.

Farmers, businesses and the state are investing millions of dollars in ethanol and biofuel plants as renewable energy sources, but a new study says the alternative fuels burn more energy than they produce.

Nasa scientists have peered deep into stardust and spotted hidden galaxies more than 11 billion light years from Earth.

TEAGASC has announced the appointment of Dr Seamus Crosse as Director of Operations with responsibility for managing the organisation's research programmes in agriculture and rural development.

Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo won’t have to worry about his job just yet.