When Mike Gallagher was in transition year at school, his Dad took him on a backpacking trip around South America. “Travelling is part of my family’s...
On a whistle-stop trip to Ireland, I recently went to a Dunnes Stores mega market in Galway. I was wowed. Supermarkets in Spain can’t compete; at...
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For the past 18 months Alice Maria Murphy has been rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous in Beverly Hills in her role as head of...
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The Gulf Stream current creates a transatlantic bridge that connects Ireland to the Gulf Coast and the Gulf Coast to Ireland. The current originates in the...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PF6L227D5ZHFJIUAE7L4F7JGSU.jpg "A chance interview at ESB led to an international career in energy")
There’s nothing electronic engineer Catherine Hurley enjoys more than a good chinwag about energy. Specifically, energy infrastructure projects and the bigger the better. A former plant...