The creation of thirty new jobs in Galway by Enterprise Ireland Companies is a huge boost for the West of Ireland, according to Senator for Roscommon-Galway, Aisling Dolan who is Seanad Spokesperson for Further & Higher Education, Science, Innovation and Research.
Updated / Thursday, 29 Oct 2020
15:00 The dolphins we thought were missing, presumed dead were actually missing, moved
Good news: Fungie may well have moved from Dingle up the coast to Tralee. This possibility has been raised by Dr Simon Berrow from the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Berrow spoke to Bryan Dobson on RTÉ Radio 1 s News At One about how dolphins who were thought to have died, like the most famous one in Ireland, were later discovered alive. We started studying the Shannon dolphins in May 1993 , explained Berrow. We called them the Shannon dolphins because they re a resident group who are always in the Shannon estuary. Every year, we do transits around the estuary looking for individual dolphins we know about from markings and we see how they re getting on.
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Simon Wakefield works in Canterbury, New Zealand, on one of the world s only deer milking farms.
Simon Wakefield left Ireland in February 2013 to embark on a six-month working holiday with friends from his agricultural business course in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Almost eight years later, he is still in New Zealand, but working on a very different project to what he originally planned.
“It was part of our course to do six months’ work experience in a business, so we went to a large scale dairy farm in Maniototo Otago, South Island,” he tells the
Irish Farmers Journal. The farm consisted of 1,600 cows on a low input system across two farms.
What shouldn t have happened? The broadcast of those comments to the world, or the comments themselves?
Because it really is none of a government minister s business what self-determining citizens can and cannot say to one another in private. That s between them, and he should know that. What kind of dystopian world would it be if we all had to get permission from Simon Harris before expressing an opinion?
It s not as if they said anything illegal. Unkindness is not a crime. Being overheard while making unflattering remarks about other people is not even that unusual an occurrence. There are many places on the internet where you can find people relaying the things they ve overheard - sometimes funny, or sometimes nasty.
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The Higher Education Minister Simon Harris has said comments made by two Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) lecturers were extremely hurtful .
The governing body of the college has launched an internal investigation, after they were heard discussing the performance of some of their students.
The students were able to hear the staff members discuss their presentations and allocate marks, after an online connection remained live.
Some of the clips include insulting language - such as a staff member asking whether there was something wrong with one student.
Several video clips of the incident have been widely shared across messaging apps.