Entrepreneurs and business owners in the marine research sector have sharply criticised the decision of UCC and Cork Institute of Technology to withdraw funding and staffing from the Irish Maritime and Energy Research Cluster in Ringaskiddy.

A partnership between two third-level colleges and the Irish Naval Service to promote commercial maritime research has been mothballed for “not being fit for purpose”.

An Bord Pleanála has a duty to the Irish people that it is not living up to with regards to Indaver’s plans for Cork Harbour, writes Linda Fitzpatrick

Dare is raising funds for a portable wind turbine that can generate power when a ship is stationary, writes Trish Dromey.

The army is helping to build a robot which will retrieve vital forensic information in the event of a ‘dirty bomb’ or chemical attack.

The chief inspector overseeing the oral hearing into a proposed incinerator for Cork Harbour will provide an update on Monday over whether the meetings can continue amid claims the initial application is invalid.

It may have sounded a bit head in the clouds when the naval service announced plans to use a kite in an innovative radar system which would also help save fuel.

There were angry exchanges and at least three calls for an adjournment at the opening day of An Bord Pleanála’s oral hearing into proposals by waste management company Indaver Ireland to build a €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

A UCC spin-off company specialising in wave, tidal, and offshore windfarm technology hopes to make €10m- €15m per year in the next five years and has the potential to make significantly more.

The minister for the defence and marine, Simon Coveney, will oppose controversial new plans for a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour.

Pioneers in marine renewable energy have gathered in Cork to pay tribute to Ireland’s “father of ocean energy”.

Aiming to take the risk out of investing in marine renewable energy, Cork startup Exceedence has launched a revolutionary new software tool which can assess whether an energy project stands to make money or lose it.

IRELAND is now firmly on what I believe is an unstoppable journey of marine expansion, writes, Simon Coveney.

These are the first images of Ireland’s largest wave tanks housed inside a vast €15m marine energy research facility which will open in Cork this weekend.

More than 80 jobs are to be created in Cork’s marine energy sector by three companies, it was announced at a major maritime conference yesterday.

There’s a crane right on the doorstep of the country’s Maritime College: it’s a sign of upward trajectories for Cork harbour, at the site of UCC’s new Beaufort Research Centre, as it prepares to host a conference Friday week on the harbour’s future.

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Third-level students are to engage in underwater robot wars as part of the first innovation week organised by the Irish Maritime and Energy Research Cluster.

The Naval Service is preparing to use drones as part of a plan to improve its surveillance operations while policing the county’s 1 million square kilometres of territorial waters.

The Government is facing renewed pressure to sanction the construction of a strategic new motorway between Cork City and Ringaskiddy.

An Bord Pleanála has approved an ambitious €40m remediation plan to transform one of the State’s worst environmental disaster zones into a large public park.

It was great to read a good-news story about the development of the Lower Cork Harbour in your article (Irish Examiner, March 12).

Twice as tall as Ireland’s tallest building — Cork’s 17-storey Elysian tower — and now also set to be taller than Dublin’s needle-like Spire, are each of Cork’s harbour’s just emerging, elevated wind turbine hubs and spinning vanes, all in the vicinity of Ringaskiddy.

As a Harbour resident and a boating enthusiast, the Marine Minister Simon Coveney is well-placed to oversee the progress in plans being made for his maritime backdoor, he tells Tommy Barker

€200m in investments and up to 4,000 marine-centred jobs and new tourism attractions are in Cork Harbour’s pipeline, reports Tommy Barker.

The Naval Service will this year make history when it tests new kite sails which will have the combined effect of providing enhanced surveillance and saving fuel.

Ireland plans to become the first country in the world to use “floating off-shore wind turbines” which it is envisaged will supply the national grid with green electricity within the next six years.

The Government has sanctioned a €1.3m investment to provide vital infrastructure at a national maritime and energy research cluster which aims to create 4,000 jobs by 2025.

Despite being in the Dáil til after midnight as the abortion debate rumbled on, a bright-eyed Taoiseach found himself within hours riding the high seas in a powerboat on Cork harbour on one of the most beautiful days of the summer.

A new super-smart buoy is to be launched in Cork harbour in the next few weeks which will provide scientists with a wealth of information and facilitate a number of hi-tech research projects.

By mid-November it will become clear how many soldiers will have to leave Collins Barracks, Cork, for other barracks as part of a Defence Forces’ rationalisation plan.

I refer to your article “Exporting waste — opportunity squandered” which appeared on Tuesday.

Collaboration between the navy and research boffins has resulted in the first Taoiseach’s public service excellence Award for a maritime project which could create 52,000 jobs from wave energy.

Ireland will have the “smartest, most innovative and responsive” navy in the world within the next few years.

A new €14m research lab will help make Ireland a global leader in marine renewable energy research, the energy minister was told yesterday.