Patents, intellectual property and politics: A new infrastructure for our ideas

Blackrock College believed it was producing men of faith and learning, but a cohort of graduates left the school with some level of trauma from their time there.

Ciarán Kelly earned a place in Irish sporting history in November 2010 when, as Sligo Rovers goalkeeper, he saved four consecutive kicks in the penalty shoot-out against Shamrock Rovers. Behind the heroics, there is a deeper story about the tiny margins between winning and losing.

The wave of layoffs at technology multinationals is not over. We have been there before and we can learn lessons from the past with policies that limit public finances' reliance on foreign investment and support workers and domestic companies to make the most of the predictable cycle ahead.

While energy supply and interest rates fuel short-term uncertainty, what is certain is that damage to the ecosystem will destroy business in the long term. In her first column for The Currency, climate scientist Dr Tara Shine argues that the best response to current turmoil is to plan now for a more resilient future.

To keep the banks off his back, Musk needs to find $1.4 billion or so. Here are five ways he might try to get there.

If I could summarise the last four decades, it would be “Just in Time”. Unfettered capitalism has led to every aspect of our world, including even us as human beings, being commoditized.

At the recent Entrepreneur Experience, 24 emerging businesses received 24 hours of intense, in-depth mentoring with seasoned entrepreneurs. Here, the event’s captain Pete Smyth picks his key learnings from this year’s event.

The ongoing tech slump really matters for Ireland – our industrial model, after all, is based on securing foreign direct investment from big US multinationals. If they are in retreat, the investment will most likely slow down or recede.

All tournaments are approached with a dread about what could go wrong, but few have taken place with such an overwhelming feeling that the host is what went wrong.

The Conor Murray of 2019-22 has become a reliable but ultimately more risk averse, more predictable and less dynamic rugby player.