Ireland’s web security is under threat from the latest generation of tech-savvy criminals, writes Rita de Brun

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Esat BT has been awarded a €5 million contract by retail group Primark to deliver a communications network that will allow the running of voice and data across the same network and the removal of telephone lines.

An ambitious survey of the Irish sea bed - an area 10 times the country’s land area - is already yielding acres of information for students of the world’s oceans.