Cork and Tralee institutes of technology plan to spend part of a €70,000 branding budget to assess if they should change the name of the technological university to be created by their merger.

THE callous but not entirely unexpected decision of Talk Talk to stick to its 30 days’ notice for 575 workers in Waterford brings to the fore an issue which has preoccupied people in the south-east for many years — the question of creating a university there.

Scientists may have found a way of repairing the damage done to skin by sunlight.