Leading medical technology company Stryker today announced that it is to invest over €200m in Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) projects at three of its five Cork facilities.

For the €300m SME Brexit Loan Scheme to work for farmers, they would need the minimum loan amount to be dropped from €50,000 to €20,000, said ICMSA farm business chairman Shane O’Loughlin.

Cork county councillors are demanding that senior IDA officials address their concerns about the lack of progress in establishing industries on 230 hectares of vacant land which the IDA owns at 14 locations around the county.

The board of Bord Scannán na hÉireann has spoken out against sexual harrassment in the entertainment industry.

The Government has invited the public to tell them how they would like major historic events to be commemorated.

Laying their eggs from March to June, cock stonechats will be threatened by the Heritage Bill 2016 allowing upland burning in march, writes Damien Enright.

The Taoiseach has urged the Irish in Britain to come out to vote claiming they may make the difference in the outcome of the Brexit referendum.

Cork County Council is to write to the Government urging it to subsidise broadband providers in West Cork because the chronic lack of such facilities is severely hampering business development in the region.

I note that the Gaeilge version of the above sacred shrine tideal is sidelined of late; this is perhaps in aid of Tourism Ireland also.

‘Star Wars’ is returning to the Kingdom with preparatory work for a fresh round of filming taking place on Sybil Head.

John Bruton is concerned about the appropriateness of army officers speaking in our primary schools about the 1916 Proclamation (Irish Examiner, January 23, 2016).

Arts Minister Heather Humphries’ Protestant background will help make the 1916 commemoration events more inclusive, the Minister for Finance said yesterday.

The National Library has warned its collections are deteriorating due to storage conditions and some three quarters of these are stored in premises without adequate fire protection.

An Taisce has appealed to heritage minister Heather Humphries to intervene in the conservation of an early medieval site earmarked for a multi-million euro tourist development.

IT is possible to extrapolate from the ESRI report on island-wide attitudes to the Irish language published yesterday that the best way to rejuvenate the dying language would be to ask Britain to recolonise the Republic.

Why do some humans feel the need to inflict suffering on animals for ‘sport’? I ask myself that question yet again after reading about the dentist who paid $55,000 for the privilege of killing Zimbabwe’s oldest and best loved lion.

The Fine Gael party convention took place over the weekend in Enda Kenny’s home county of Mayo. Here is all the latest news from Castlebar and what lies ahead for the Fine Gael Party

Enda Kenny has said that if he is re-elected to office, his next Cabinet will be comprised of “50/50 of men and women - on merit”.

Nobody knows exactly how many Irish died on Flanders Fields in the first world war because many got caught up in the British propaganda war after the Easter Rising.

The saga of the Taoiseach, the turbulent TD, his assistant/fiancee and her diamond ring is made for TV – except maybe it would be too far-fetched for a producer to consider, says Michael Clifford

The Arts Minister Heather Humphries says Fine Gael officials told her John McNulty wanted to be on the board of an Arts organisation.

For a government that promised to put an end to the cronyism and stroke politics which brought Irish politics into disrepute, the performance of the Fine Gael–Labour Coalition in this regard has been truly abysmal.

The new Cabinet has been announced.

TDs have told how they were left traumatised and “physically sick” after meeting a group of women who had undergone symphysiotomy during childbirth.

With all bar four of the 43 constituencies in the General Election finished counting, the country’s political scene has undergone a sea change.

Former Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin has failed to retain her seat in Dun Laoghaire. Richard Boyd Barrett won the seat, bringing the haul of seats for Independents and others to 17.

The election of Fine Gael's Mary Mitchell O'Connor in Dun Laoghaire brings to 141 the total number of seats filled so far (from a total of 166).