“A hard-hitting review of engineering research in Irish universities and its potential for making a contribution to economic development was recently published by the Irish Academy of Engineering. The figures show that in the four years from 2005 to 2009, the last government spent €1.35 bn of public funds on research in our universities, with 85% allocated to the disciplines in sciences, 8% to engineering and 7% to other, mostly arts, disciplines …” (more)
[John Kelly, Irish Times, 2 July]