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Cork online grinds platform aims to help students get top marks in maths exams

22 hours 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.
Ireland risks up to €26 billion in penalties by missing EU climate targets - what’s at stake?

23 hours ago | irishtimes.com | Sandra O'Connell

The recent joint report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and the Climate Change Advisory Council made for sobering reading. Published in March, A Colossal Missed Opportunity – Ireland’s Climate Action and the Potential Costs of Missing Targets, looked at the possible costs Ireland faces if it fails to meet its agreed EU climate commitments. These require domestic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, an increasing share of renewable energy, and improved energy efficiency.
Residential retrofits: how do the sums stack up for homeowners?

23 hours ago | irishtimes.com | Deanna O’Connor

Residential retrofitting is a key element of the Government’s Climate Action Plan, with a target of 500,000 homes to be retrofitted to a minimum B2 building energy rating (BER) by 2030. The benefits in terms of warmer homes and cheaper energy bills are obvious but the main barrier appears to be the high upfront cost. How do the sums stack up for householders?
Employers focusing on green skills to drive energy transition

23 hours ago | irishtimes.com | Sandra O'Connell

Supporting the energy transition requires a broad set of interdisciplinary skills. Eirgrid, the operator and developer of Ireland’s electricity grid, is responsible for a safe, secure and reliable supply of electricity, playing a key role in helping Ireland to meet its climate commitments and to successfully navigate the energy transition.
Republic must share Omagh bombing information with inquiry, says North’s former police ombudsman

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Freya McClements

The State must initiate a “determined process” to make its records available to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, the North’s former police ombudsman has said. Baroness Nuala O’Loan said she believed legislation was probably necessary “to enable the transmission of intelligence and information which the Republic holds” about the 1998 atrocity, in which 31 people, including unborn twins, died.
All you need to know as Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry look to retain title in New Orleans

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Philip Reid

Zurich Classic of New OrleansPurse: €8.05m/$9.2m (€1.15m/$1.329m each to the winning pair)Where: New Orleans, Louisiana, USAThe course: TPC Louisiana – 7,425 yards, Par 72 – is a Pete Dye design with input from former tour player Steve Elkington and Kelly Gibson. The course, which opened for play in 2004, is a public facility located in over 250 acres of wetlands along the Mississippi river and features in excess of 100 bunkers and five water hazards.
Spain’s left celebrates rapport with Pope Francis

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Guy Hedgecoe

In Spain, the response to the death of Pope Francis has reflected how the country’s political left found common cause with him on a range of issues, a dynamic that often riled the Catholic right. The number of Spaniards who see themselves as practising Catholics has dropped to fewer than one in five and is now surpassed by atheists and agnostics. Yet the country’s church remains a powerful institution, with five cardinals eligible to take part in the upcoming conclave.
Meath hoping to give Dublin as good a game as Cork gave to Kerry

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Mary Hannigan

A week ago, Darragh Ó Sé “couldn’t make an argument for Cork getting anywhere close” to beating Kerry in their Munster championship meeting on Saturday, so today he’s doffing his cap to them for taking the game in to extra-time. “It was great to see some of that old fire back in the Cork bellies,” he writes, having a notion that the team being written off helped put it there. The challenge now, though, is to kick on and prove that they don’t need to see the Kerry jersey to keep that fire burning.
Rory McIlroy’s Grand Slam is ‘pretty scary’, says Xander Schauffele

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Philip Reid

Two-time Major champion Xander Schauffele has identified Rory McIlroy’s career Grand Slam achievement as being a “pretty scary thing” for his rivals. Schauffele – who defends his US PGA title at Quail Hollow next month and The Open at Royal Portrush in July – believes the Northern Irishman has the potential to freewheel into future Majors without any of the mental scars or pressure that had accompanied his efforts for more than a decade. “It’s incredible for the game of golf.
Asia markets rally as Trump hints China tariffs could be cut

1 day ago | irishtimes.com | Denis Staunton

Markets in Asia rallied on Wednesday morning after Donald Trump suggested that tariffs on China cut be cut substantially and said he had no plans to dismiss Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. Speaking to reporters in the White House on Tuesday night, the US president said he was confident that there would be a trade deal with China and that there would be no need for “hardball” negotiations. “We’re going to be very nice. They’re going to be very nice, and we’ll see what happens.