“This is a generational opportunity to make a difference,” Diarmuid O’Brien told a packed audience at the Round Room in the Mansion House on Monday morning. “I would ask everyone in this room, from our universities to industry to government, to the agencies that we collaborate with to work together with ambition to take advantage of this generational opportunity and provide that transformational benefit for the country.” The new CEO of Research Ireland spoke as he unveiled the State agency’s strategy for the next five years that aims to help the country build an “internationally renowned research and innovation system”.…