Concerned chemical engineering students at University College Cork have been told every effort is being made to reverse the loss of accreditation for their degrees caused by a delay in replacing a professor.

A special bond was created between a boy and a Gorilla at Louisville Zoo in Kentucky yesterday.

SPOILER: Has Boyzone star Keith Duffy made it into the semi-final of diving show 'Splash!' tonight?

The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has acquired a 75% interest in Al Wazeen Trading as part of a €20m investment in Saudi Arabia.

An etiquette guide for moviegoers has been put together after a poll revealed more than half of film fans get annoyed by people talking in the cinema.

Food companies can gain a competitive advantage from Irish research tracing the relationship that exists between diet, gut bacteria, and the health of older people.

Teagasc’s head of food research, Paul Ross, has been named as research professor in the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre in UCC.

INNOVATIVE cheeses, ingredients and flavourings are being developed to capitalise on the 2015 post-quota era, said experts at yesterday’s global Cheese Symposium in Cork.

THE potential for infant formula exports will be one of the main topics under discussion at the Agricultural Science Association (ASA) annual conference in Carton House Hotel, Maynooth, Co Kildare, on Friday, September 9.

ICONIC brand Kerrygold will be the template for a suite of new cheese and dairy products to be developed for export at the Dairy Innovation Centre, launched at Teagasc Moorepark, in Fermoy, Co Cork, yesterday.

SIX senior level Cork-based food researchers have been named in the top 20 of 15,000 specialist authors in a global list compiled by the global ratings agency, Thomson Reuters Science Watch.

DUTCH food scientists are developing strategic links with Cork-based researchers in Teagasc Moorepark and in UCC, despite the competition that exists between them in terms of bringing projects to market.

IN the late 1980s, a tall, well-dressed chap used to come into the West End comic shop where I worked, and buy armfuls of expensive vintage comics.

SCIENTISTS in University College Cork claimed to have found a “magic bullet” that can kill the deadly hospital superbug C difficile.

A COMPANY formed by pork farmers to protect and promote their industry will formally launch its Truly Irish Country Foods brand at Mitchelstown Food Festival this coming weekend.

A COMPANY formed by pork farmers to protect and promote their industry will formally launch its Truly Irish Country Foods brand at Mitchelstown Food Festival this coming weekend.

A HUSBAND and wife research team made history at a college conferring ceremony yesterday.

A stage version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is to offer a £1m (€1.44m) cash prize, it was announced today.

HOPE for control of such problems as obesity and colon cancer are springing from the new Teagasc Biotechnology Food Centre at Moorepark, Co Cork.

Former GMTV presenter Eamonn Holmes has landed a new job – hosting the theatre version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

IN Pearse Park on Sunday, among the large crowd braving the elements, there will be the old-timers evoking 1968, the year Longford footballers were feasting at the top table.

Kildare 1-14, Longford 2-6

TV presenter Fearne Cotton proved her singing was not up to scratch tonight when she became the second star to be kicked out of Celebrity Fame Academy.

Celebrity Fame Academy was beginning today with one of the stars set to make an early exit.

TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson will head the new intake of students at the Celebrity Fame Academy, it was confirmed today.