Anne O’Leary, Head of Meta Ireland, and President of IBEC, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, was today conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by University College Cork (UCC) for her services to business and technology, her charitable works, and for advancing the position of women in the workplace.

Dr Joanna Wharton receives prestigious €590,262 Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland Pathway Programme award. LINC project offers new perspectives on pre-electrical telegraphic cultures, during the period 1794-1850. The project contributes to a historically informed debate on the legacies of surveillance, secrecy, and technological acceleration.

“Irish Universities can and must be much better at engaging with business” states Sean O’Driscoll, one of Ireland’s business leaders, and chair of the Governing Authority of University College Cork (UCC).