Researchers at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) have landed a double-funding boost to help advance their work in developing smarter, energy-efficient homes.

Technology that could help save lives in fires, and that makes it harder to get lost at trade shows, has earned researchers at Cork Institute of Technology a major international prize.

THE detection of MRSA and other hospital bugs could help save lives and improve patient care for thousands of people around the world — and the technology to do it is being developed by Irish scientists.