Olive Keogh

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Olive Keogh

Having worked as a consultant in critical care and anaesthesiology for many years, Prof Dorothy Breen has seen first-hand the distress caused by burnout within the medical profession. Keen to do something about it, she began investigating the problem and quickly discovered that only a small proportion of doctors ever seek outside support to ease their job-related pressures. This inspired her to set up forDoctors.ie, a coaching and mentoring service provided by doctors for doctors.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Olive Keogh

Dave Hayes, Denis McCarthy and Gavin Coakley are the founders of HappyPath Labs, an AI-enabled start-up aiming to provide customer feedback faster, cheaper and more accurately than the traditional ways of gauging customer reaction to products and services.

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Olive Keogh

“Enzymes are the hardest working molecules in nature. They have a role to play in countless bioprocesses from the production of bioethanol, drugs and detergents to brewing, baking and food – and that’s only scratching the surface,” explains Dr Tim Roche. Roche is co-founder of BioEnz Technologies, which is developing a commercial portfolio of novel enzymes that will play a key role in protecting the environment, improving nutrition and treating disease in the future.

3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Olive Keogh

Maths is a bugbear subject for thousands of students and many turn to grinds to get them through the Junior and Leaving Cert exams. Cork-born TJ Hegarty is a whizz at maths and first started giving grinds to make money when he left school and went to study agricultural science at UCD. A farmer’s son who is “good at making things happen”, he was working with the Kerry Group when the idea for Breakthrough Maths began taking shape in his head. This was back in 2020.

4 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Olive Keogh

Traditional market research is slow, expensive, and inaccessible to many businesses. That’s the view of CogniStream AI founders, Alex and Ciarán Harris, who are replacing person-to-person market research with a novel AI tool that can do the job faster and at a fraction of the cost. “Market research agencies charge upwards of €20,000 per study and take weeks to deliver results. The alternative?