Almost €50,000 was paid in expenses to four directors of the country’s science funding agency to attend board and committee meetings last year.

Scientists in the United States, China and Russia will soon be able to collaborate in cyberspace over a new high-speed computer network that includes the first direct computer link across the Russia-China border.

INITIATIVES to expand trade and investment and create US-Irish partnerships between the United States, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland were announced at the US-Ireland summit in Washington DC yesterday.