‘We wanted to build a global organisation, but build it in Carlow’

Interview: David Walsh, HaloCare

Healthcare start-up by Netwatch founders helps elderly stay living independently

Irish firm HaloCare’s software tracks and interprets movement and health at home

Centric Health sells Global Diagnostics Ireland in €16m deal

London-listed Medica Group acquires company founded by Dr Johnny Walker in 2007

Irish molecular diagnostics company GlowDX raises €1.1 m

Company’s backers include a number of well-known angel investors and SOSV

Irishman who founded Radio Caroline and ‘changed radio forever’ dies

Ronan O’Rahilly (79) set up the pirate radio station on a ship in 1964

Web Summit moves on from Dublin roots as it matures in Lisbon

AI is hottest topic at fully-fledged international conference with 60,000 attendees

From smart beds to smart sticks: The health technology transforming our lives

McKinsey report predicts we are ‘at cusp of healthcare revolution that will eclipse achievements of past centuries’

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Khalid Kelly: ‘I don’t want to seem heartless. . . but what does one man matter?’

In a 2004 interview in ‘The Irish Times’ the Dubliner talked about his extremist views

Diageo completes sale of US, UK wine interests

Treasury Wine acquires interests in deal valued at $552m

Diageo sells off US, UK wine interests for $552m

Treasury Wine to acquire brands including Blossom Hill and Piat D’Or

Will a digital makeover be good for our health service?

It may have been slow to embrace technology, but the healthcare sector is now set to embrace the future

Sleep champions: Fourth and final week

Medical Matters: Let’s lay down a marker. Let’s do it tonight. Let’s sleep for eight hours

Charlie Bird: reporting from the Arctic for ‘The Irish Times’

From late February the former RTÉ journalist will be living among an Inuit community in Nunavut, documenting it in print and online