THE quality of broadband connections in Ireland is inferior to that of less developed economies like Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania, according to an international survey of high-speed internet connections in 66 countries.

INFORMATION technology was one of the centre planks of Ireland’s recent economic expansion and it will be central to any recovery.

A Spanish psychologist met Cambodia’s “jungle woman”, hoping to unravel some of the mystery surrounding the woman who emerged from the forest, naked and unable to speak, after what may have been nearly two decades in the wild.