HEALTH Minister Mary Harney was given the cold shoulder by SIPTU — for reportedly being “too busy” to discuss a recruitment embargo with the union’s nursing section.

THE Government needs to make increased investment in R&D a top priority in negotiations on the future EU budget, a top advisory group said yesterday.

Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin today announced the appointment of a new Advisory Science Council to succeed the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, ICSTI.