Ubiquitous LCD screens contain valuable recoverable materials, as well as poisonous mercury. Votechnik has robotised their disassembly and is now exporting to Sweden and the US.
Democracy is always interesting. It is rarely experimental. Limerick’s mayoral election is different.
Eoghan Mulcahy was selected for the world’s most sought-after start-up bootcamp with his software company Ten.Dev, which is about to launch its first product. This is what the experience taught him.
Limerick manufacturing software start-up Mavarick was founded two years ago. Working with the €65 billion German car maker is a big breakthrough.
The Criminal Assets Bureau seized 112 cars and froze millions of euro in the pursuit of a car dealership it claimed to be "an engine of fraud, fuelled by money-laundering”.
When a Forbes profile of Stripe's founders caused deep offence for labelling Limerick "stab city", the magazine announced it would host an event in recompense. Eighteen months later, that promise remains unfulfilled.
Tech transporation giant Uber had built a team of over 500 people in Limerick since 2015. Now it has just let a large number of them go as the business cuts costs in reaction to Covid-19.
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