Dublin City University has suspended the email account of a retired staff member who sent an ‘offensive’ message in response to the death of Ann Louise Gilligan, wife of Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone.

The signing of a $1m contract with a Malaysian university has provided Cork company, Akari Software with a significant breakthrough in its bid to develop sales internationally.

UCD’s footballers congregated under the Belfield lights on Wednesday night, the finishing touches applied ahead of today’s sojourn north.

Cork Institute of Technology and IT Tralee are moving ahead with plans to apply for technological university (TU) status.

The number of third-level colleges could be more than halved to fewer than 20 under plans to be submitted to Education Minister Ruairi Quinn in March.