Angel investing is growing every year in Ireland. Pádraig Hoare speaks to John Phelan, head of Halo Business Angel Network, which last week announced a record investment in a company spun out of Cork IT.

Ireland’s medical technology industry is one of the largest in Europe with 13 of the world’s top 15 companies in the field having operations here.

AventaMed has developed a device which aims to take grommet surgery out of operating theatres and turn it into a quick procedure that can take place in a consultant’s offices. The elective surgery involves the use of small tubes.

A medical device company which is about to spin out from Cork Institute of Technology narrowly missed out on a $100,000 (€74,000) top prize at a prestigious medical device competition in the US.

Two Irish researchers have invented a medical device which has the potential to revolutionise how doctors around the world perform one of the most common childhood medical procedures.