Expleo, the global technology and consulting service provider, has announced the results of its AI Pulse sentiment tracker for Ireland. The survey shows that business leaders in Ireland are far more likely than those in the UK, Germany and France to value empathy as a fundamental skill for managers in the age of AI. Meanwhile, the sentiment score for April remains unchanged from March, at 65 out of 100 for confidence in AI.

Despite ongoing concerns around the impact AI will have on the global jobs market, April's AI pulse shows that business leaders in Ireland believe that the most important skill for managers of the future, in the context of increased AI adoption, will be human-centred, empathetic coaching and people leadership. This is significantly higher than the importance business leaders in the UK (21%), France (15%) and Germany (18%) give it.

The most-valued skill, on average, across the markets surveyed is the ability to integrate AI into workflows and drive change (25%), while business leaders in Ireland are less convinced, at 19%.

The drive to keep humans in the picture may explain why 45% of business leaders are worried about how AI is transforming their organisation, up from 43% the previous month. This concern is felt to a lesser extent in other markets: 34% in France and Germany and 41% in the UK.

Commenting on this month's results, Phil Codd, Managing Director – Ireland, Expleo, said: "The high proportion of business leaders valuing human-centred leadership actually shows a great level of AI maturity. Business leaders here understand that it is people who transform organisations, not AI.

"The organisations that will get the most from AI are not the ones racing to implement it fastest, but the ones investing in the human side. Ireland's focus on empathy as a core management skill isn't a reluctance to embrace AI, it's an advanced understanding of what successful adoption actually requires."

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Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) has announced the €6.9 million REWIRE project, a new pan-European initiative designed to help scale high-quality remanufacturing through robotics, AI, digital twins and traceability tools for European industry.

The project is being advanced under Horizon Europe, the European Union's research and innovation programme, and is aligned with the topic on integrated approaches for remanufacturing, which aims to strengthen Europe's circular and digitised industrial value chains and support skills, standards and industrial uptake.

The project will focus on enabling scalable, efficient remanufacturing processes in sectors including heavy machinery, automotive and electronics, areas where complexity, variability and cost have traditionally limited innovation processes adoption. The project will bring together 3 RTOs, 4 RPO, 1 NGO and 5 industrial partners from 8 European countries to address key barriers such as poor traceability, fragmented digital systems, limited autonomous and adaptable robotics, weak decision-support tools and skills shortages. These factors hinder industrial adoption and scale-up, thereby supporting more resilient manufacturing, improved resource efficiency and stronger circular value chains in Europe.

Barry Kennedy, CEO of IMR, said, "REWIRE represents an important step in building Europe's capability in advanced remanufacturing. By combining industrial know-how with robotics, AI and digital technologies, the project will help manufacturers recover more value from products and components, strengthen competitiveness, and support the transition to a more circular and sustainable industrial base."

Kevin Burke, National Director for Horizon Europe at Enterprise Ireland, said, "Enterprise Ireland has, through its Horizon Europe support team of National Contact Points, supported IMR to build and coordinate this important Horizon Europe project. We are particularly pleased that the consortium includes a dynamic Enterprise Ireland client company Dromone Engineering as well as UCD together with project partners from across Europe. Successful projects of this scale demonstrate the importance and impact of Enterprise Ireland's Technology Centres Programme and support our ambition for our clients to turn innovation into industrial impact by delivering increased commercial success in international markets."

Dr Aswin Ramasubramanian, Robotics Technologist at IMR, said: "As REWIRE Coordinator, I am proud to lead this multi-million euro project and bring together a talented European expert team to show that remanufacturing can be just as fast, flexible and trusted as first-time manufacturing, while keeping valuable products and components in use for longer. By combining advanced robotics, AI, digital twins and traceability, we want to make it easier for manufacturers in sectors such as heavy machinery, automotive and electronics to recover value, cut waste and build more resilient supply chains."

The project is expected to commence in May 2026 and will develop integrated solutions for traceability and lifecycle data, modular robotics and AI toolboxes, adaptive AI planners for automated disassembly and inspection, digital product passport deployment, upskilling toolkits, predictive safety architectures, and fast-track compliance modules for industrial remanufacturing. REWIRE also aims to contribute to wider European outcomes by helping to double remanufactured component volumes in the sectors addressed, stimulate new circular synergies, increase implementation capability, support skills development and contribute to standards advancement.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101293592. See, https://imr.ie/

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Kerry, a global leader in taste and nutrition, has announced that the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a positive scientific opinion on Acrylerase, its novel amidase food enzyme designed to significantly reduce acrylamide in coffee extracts used to manufacture instant coffee and coffee substitutes.

The opinion comes at a time of increased EU focus on acrylamide in coffee products. Acrylamide is a process-related contaminant formed naturally during high-temperature processing such as roasting and, in the EU, is treated as a substance of concern due to its genotoxic and carcinogenic properties. Under Regulation (EU) 2017/2158, food business operators are required to apply mitigation measures in line with the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle and monitor acrylamide levels against benchmark values, increasing demand for effective and practical solutions.

Acrylerase is the first commercially available food enzyme designed to directly decompose acrylamide after it has formed, rather than reducing its formation indirectly through process modifications. As the first scientific assessment of an amidase for hydrolyzing acrylamide in coffee extracts and coffee substitutes for this purpose, EFSA's opinion marks an important advance in acrylamide mitigation under one of the world's most rigorous regulatory systems.

EFSA positive conclusion on Acrylerase for intended use

EFSA's positive scientific opinion confirms the safety of Acrylerase for its intended use in coffee extracts for instant coffee and coffee substitutes. As the first scientific assessment of an amidase for hydrolyzing acrylamide in these applications, the opinion represents an important regulatory milestone and provides manufacturers with greater confidence in adopting a targeted acrylamide-mitigation solution within the EU framework.

"A positive EFSA opinion is a significant milestone for Acrylerase and for manufacturers evaluating new ways to mitigate acrylamide," said Yasemin Koybasi, Global Regulatory Director at Kerry. "It reflects the rigor of the EU food enzyme evaluation process and provides important reassurance on the safety of Acrylerase for its intended applications."

Direct reduction without compromising quality

Unlike conventional mitigation strategies that focus on precursor reduction or process adjustments, Acrylerase directly decomposes acrylamide during processing, giving manufacturers an additional intervention point without requiring changes to established recipes or operating parameters.

Up to 90% reduction in acrylamide levels under relevant processing conditions, outperforming conventional mitigation strategies

No impact on taste, aroma or product yield under the intended conditions of use

Designed for integration into existing industrial coffee-processing workflows, supporting manufacturing continuity

Strengthening Kerry's leadership in food enzymes

The EFSA scientific opinion further strengthens Kerry's position in food enzyme innovation. The amidase expands Kerry's portfolio of enzymatic technologies designed to help customers address food safety, product quality and regulatory challenges across multiple categories.

"This milestone demonstrates how targeted enzyme innovation can help solve real-world manufacturing and food safety challenges," said Ronan Moloney, Vice President of Enzymes at Kerry. "Acrylerase delivers measurable value for customers while supporting compliance with increasingly complex regulatory requirements."

Collaboration with ANKA: combining enzyme science and coffee expertise

Acrylerase was developed in close collaboration with ANKA, a globally recognized specialist in coffee processing technologies. ANKA's expertise in coffee chemistry, roasting dynamics and industrial applications helped translate enzyme innovation into a practical, scalable solution for the coffee industry. The partnership highlights the value of combining enzyme science with deep category expertise to deliver advances in...

Just under 40% (38%) of all electricity was generated by wind last month, making it the biggest contributor to Ireland's fuel mix in April, according to new provisional data from EirGrid.

The figures show that overall, 48% of electricity came from renewable sources in April, with 6% of electricity generated by large (grid-scale) solar farms.

This is the third consecutive month where renewable generation met around half of electricity demand, as significant progress continues to be made in integrating renewables onto Ireland's power system.

To date, the developments EirGrid has made have enabled up to 75% of electricity to be generated from variable renewable sources (e.g. wind and solar) at any one time, and EirGrid has a significant work programme underway to increase this to 95%.

Looking at the same month last year, EirGrid's metered data shows that 33% of electricity was generated by wind and 0.9% by grid-scale solar.

Overall, total generation from wind and grid-scale solar last month was 1,078 GWh (Gigawatt hours) and 163 GWh, respectively, compared with 761 GWh and 119 GWh in April 2025.

EirGrid balances supply and demand every minute of the day from the National Control Centre, while also planning for Ireland's long-term electricity needs.

Elsewhere last month, gas generation accounted for 35% of all electricity used, while 16% was imported via interconnection.

The overall electricity system demand stood at 2,865 GWh in April, compared to 3,142 GWh in March.2

April also saw a new record for solar power, as Ireland reached a new peak of over 1 GW (gigawatt) of electricity provided by grid-scale solar power for the first time.

The peak of 1 GW (1021 MW) was set for the first time on Monday, 20 April at 12.19 pm. Another record of 1087 MW was then set on Friday, 24 April at 12.08 pm, followed by a record peak of 1133 MW on Saturday, 25 April at 2.14 pm.

It is estimated that 1 GW is enough to power around 500,000 customers, and the new record is attributed to the growing number of large solar farms connected to the power system.

Diarmaid Gillespie, EirGrid's Director of System Operations, said:

"It's positive to see that this was the third consecutive month where almost half of Ireland's electricity was generated by renewables. Wind continues to be the largest contributor, but the growth of solar in Ireland's fuel mix if noteworthy as we head into the summer months."

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By Patty Azzarello

I am in a room of 15 men and 1 woman. I am the woman. I am 31. The guys all look 20 years older than me. I note their big smiles, comfortable banter, and silvering, executive hair; they all look very impressive.

I had just been promoted to the executive level, and these were my new colleagues.

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My focus was split between two things:

1. I deserve to be in this room. I'm smart. I won this promotion fair and square.

2. It is undeniable that I am actually very young for this job—and I'm the only female.

The thought reverberating through my entire being was I am not like them at all. Here I was, in my classy black suit and high heels, feeling way too young and very small.

Watching all these men in their relaxed conversation circles made me think back to the very first job I had in my career.

I was 17 and in my second year of college. I was a student engineering intern working for the US government. I had big hair and big boobs.

All the full-time engineers were men, and all the other interns were older, male, and, by contrast, they all had neat hair and tidy, flat chests.

I walked into the shared office and found them all talking. Their eyes met my boobs upon entry, but they did not invite me into the conversation. As I stood on the sidelines, it struck me like a bolt of lightning . . .

These conversations are where everything happens. Everything. Everything at this job, everything at every job, and everything in the world. And—I am not in these conversations.

I saw my whole career flash before my eyes. Endless groups of people over the course of my lifetime talking about and doing all the important stuff—without me.

I knew I needed to put myself into that conversation circle of men, even though the thought of doing so in that moment made me feel panicked. But I took a deep breath and went in. It felt like that moment when you jump off the high dive. I was in motion but didn't know what would happen when I hit the water.

Everyone looked surprised, like, "What is she doing here? She's not part of this group? She's never been in these conversations before."

Then, they basically ignored me.

I felt weird that I didn't have anything to say. But I stayed in it and just listened. I listened while they talked about the new car dealership on Route 71. I listened when they talked about the football game last night, and the new secretary's sweet ass in her tight skirt.

But then, the conversation got to a new computer system being delivered tomorrow that we had an opportunity to get trained on if we wanted to. I leaped to the front of the line. None of the male interns leaped; they didn't even volunteer at all. I was the only one.

A couple of weeks later, someone needed to demonstrate the new system to all the visiting generals. And I was the only one qualified.

I realized something super important when I got that opportunity: As uncomfortable as it is to break into a conversation circle where I am not invited, if I can shove my way in there and just listen, just listening can create opportunities.

So now, here I am in the present, after my big career promotion in my first big room of big corporate executives.

I thought about the interns and the generals, and how I had forced my way into the conversation. So once again, I willed myself to walk into this intimidating conversation circle of executive men. And once again, they all ignored me. But I stayed there, I lurked. And again, I listened. I did not back away.

Just stay in the room . . .

People often ask me about my resilience. My formula is not that complicated. Anyone can do it. I just refuse to go away when I feel unwelcome.

I realized that to ultimately get my voice heard, I would need to get in the room, stay there, and then listen like my life depended upon it. I was constantly searching for any small hook or a thread I could grab onto in a confident way.

After lots of listening, I was able to form patterns that others were not seeing. I wa...

Applications are now open for one of Europe's best-known maker and applied technology events

Applications are now open for Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition, which returns to Rome from October 23–25, 2026.

The deadline for applications across all categories is June 15.

Maker Faire Rome

I covered the event for Irish Tech News last year (Irish Tech News has been reporting from the fair since 2019), and it remains one of the more interesting and hands-on technology events in Europe, particularly for people working in engineering, fabrication, sustainability, robotics, education and applied research.

Three calls now open

Organisers have opened three separate calls for participation.

Call for Makers

Open internationally to startups, companies, makers and innovators working across robotics, AI, IoT, sustainability, digital fabrication, agritech, wearables, food technology, space technologies and related areas.

Call for Makers 2026

Call for Schools

Open to student teams aged 14–18 from Italy and across the European Union.

Call for Schools 2026

Call for Universities and Research Institutes

Open internationally to researchers, doctoral candidates, university teams, public research institutes and academic spin-outs.

Call for Universities and Research Institutes 2026

Selected participants receive exhibition space free of charge, including practical supports such as setup services, electricity and Wi-Fi where applicable.

Projects are reviewed by an independent Scientific Committee.

A very different type of tech event

Maker Faire Rome takes place at the Gazometro Ostiense complex, a huge former industrial gasworks site in the south of Rome.

The industrial setting suits the event well. Inside the old steel structures are hundreds of working demonstrations, prototypes, experiments and exhibits, ranging from school projects to university research and startup technologies.

The event is linked to the wider international maker movement through Make: and the broader network of Maker Faire events worldwide.

That maker culture still comes through strongly in Rome, with many projects still at prototype stage rather than polished commercial products.

Robots, research and experimental ideas

At Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition you could move within minutes from teams of robots playing football to scientific research tackling the Xylella fastidiosa pest devastating olive groves across southern Europe. Nearby were startup competitions, robotics labs, AI demonstrations, digital fabrication projects, accessibility technologies and experimental sustainability ideas. One area featured remarkable wooden pinball machines created by Italian maker Massimiliano Aiazzi, combining mechanics, craftsmanship and engineering using levers, pulleys and counterweights rather than electronics. Elsewhere, students demonstrated autonomous vehicles, researchers showcased underwater communication systems and artists explored the overlap between sculpture, fabrication and digital design. What makes Maker Faire Rome unusual is that it does not feel like a polished trade show.

It feels more like a huge working laboratory where inventors, researchers, makers and students openly test ideas in public inside Rome's Gazometro Ostiense.

The event also reflects Italy's strong engineering and manufacturing tradition, with practical problem-solving and applied technology more visible than marketing hype.

Why events like this still matter

Many technology events are increasingly dominated by polished presentations and commercial messaging.

Maker Faire Rome still feels closer to a working laboratory. Visitors spend time talking directly with makers, researchers, engineers and students about technologies that are often still evolving.

For Irish startups, researchers, schools, makers and engineering-led projects, it remains a worthwhile event to watch and potentially participate in.

Applications close on June 15, 2026.

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Gas Networks Ireland has signed an agreement with Stream BioEnergy to connect a new €80 million biomethane facility in Little Island, Co. Cork, to the national gas network.

The announcement is due to be made today at the All-Island Bioeconomy Summit at the Johnstown Estate, Co. Meath. Speaking on the news, Gas Networks Ireland's Head of Business Development Karen Doyle said:

"This agreement with Stream BioEnergy marks another important milestone in the development of Ireland's renewable gas sector. Biomethane has a vital role to play in supporting Ireland's transition to a lower-carbon energy system while also delivering sustainable solutions for organic waste management.

"Connecting facilities such as this to the national gas network demonstrates how existing infrastructure can support Ireland's climate action targets, energy security and circular economy ambitions."

"Currently under construction, Stream BioEnergy's new facility in Little Island is expected to become operational in 2027 and will process approximately 90,000 tonnes of domestic and commercial food and garden waste annually. Using anaerobic digestion technology, the plant will produce 80 GWh of renewable biomethane each year — enough renewable gas to meet the annual heating demand of approximately 6,000 homes.

"The project will be Ireland's largest biomethane plant using mixed food and garden waste and represents a significant step forward in the country's transition to renewable energy and circular waste management.

"By injecting renewable biomethane directly into the national gas network, the facility will help reduce reliance on fossil fuels and artificial fertilisers while supporting Ireland's decarbonisation ambitions. The project is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 40,000 tonnes of CO? annually, equivalent to removing around 17,000 cars from Irish roads."

Morgan Burke, Chief Operating Officer of Stream BioEnergy, added:

"Renewable Gas can play a central role in reducing our emissions, and this agreement with Gas Networks Ireland marks a significant milestone for both companies and for the development of Ireland's biomethane sector. Our project in Little Island will provide for sustainable management of organic waste, enhance energy security, whilst contributing to our energy transition and decarbonisation targets in a meaningful way."

The agreement underlines Gas Networks Ireland's ongoing commitment to working with Ireland's emerging biomethane producers to deliver cleaner, more secure and more sustainable energy for the country. Stream Bioenergy's Little Island facility is the seventh biomethane production plant to be contracted to connect to the national gas network in the last three years with further contracts currently at an advanced stage of discussion.

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New research led by Trinity College Dublin's AI Accountability Lab pinpoints the growing threat posed by the influence AI companies have over the rule of law, and people's lives, as well as outlining how society can stem the tide.

The international team behind the work, which comprised researchers based in Ireland, the United States, Scotland and The Netherlands, mapped the growing and outsized influence that the "Big AI" industry exerts on the capture and control of the narrative, and of the regulatory measures related to AI and its ever-growing use in society.

After taking a deep dive into literature and media reports, the multi-disciplinary team identified 27 established patterns of "corporate capture", a process by which regulation and public bodies come to act in the interest of corporations rather than people.

Applying their classification to a dataset of 100 articles, specifically published around four critical events between 2023 and 2025 (the EU AI Act trilogues and the global AI summits in the UK, South Korea and France), they found 249 cases fitting capture patterns.

Of these instances, the most prevalent relate to:

1) Narrative capture, dominated by narratives such as "regulation stifles innovation" and "red tape" whereby regulation is portrayed as unnecessary, excessive, or obsolete.

2) Elusion of law, pertaining to violations and contentious interpretations of antitrust, privacy, copyright and labour laws.

How does Big AI exert such influence?

Growing evidence, outlined in the research, suggests that Big AI has undermined and resisted regulation, oversight and enforcement in a variety of ways, such as lobbying; retaliated against whistleblowers, researchers and law-makers; and benefited in some cases from a "revolving door" model where former policymakers go on to advise or take employment with major AI companies.

There are also many examples of Big AI making significant donations to political parties, public officials owning equity in regulated companies, while some governments and political leaders have also set the stage to undermine existing rules. For example, after previously calling for "simplification", in October 2025 EU Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen explicitly advocated for deregulation.

Dr Abeba Birhane, Director of Trinity's AI Accountability Lab, based in the ADAPT Research Ireland Centre and Trinity's School of Computer Science and Statistics, led the new research. She said: "In addition to 'narrative capture' and the violations and contentious interpretations of antitrust, privacy, copyright and labour laws that were most recurrent, we also found that Big AI frequently uses the notion that 'regulation stifles innovation' and that 'red tape can stymy national interest' to rationalise their control of the overall narrative."

Zeerak Talat, one of the co-authors from the University of Edinburgh, added: "The regulatory and oversight structures and processes that govern the industry deeply impact everything from fostering public trust in systems marketed as AI to the credibility of scientific knowledge, and from educational and healthcare services to information ecosystems, the environment, rule of law and even the integrity of democratic processes."

What is the potential impact of this research?

Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. And that continues to grow.

This work: 1) provides a new framework for understanding and identifying the many different ways in which Big AI controls the narrative and influences associated regulatory measures; and 2) categorises the most prevalent mechanisms in which the industry does that.

Riccardo Angius, PhD Researcher in the AIAL at Trinity, added: "This work provides policymakers and other researchers with rigorous context to comprehend the extent and depth of the pervasive and multifaceted capture of AI regulation by corporate actors. It calls into question the loom...

Audrey AI, a Dublin startup building AI for financial auditors recently announced a $1.8m pre-seed. The round was backed by Sure Valley Ventures, Delta Partners and Enterprise Ireland, with Donnchadh Casey (ex-CEO of Calypso) and Conor Jones (ex-CBO of Wayflyer) also investing.

To find out more I caught up with Ryan Laughran the CEO and Co-Founder of Audrey AI.

More about Ryan Loughran:

Ryan has a BSc Accounting, from Queen's University Belfast and an MBA from Stanford. With 5+ years in professional services at McKinsey & Co he also has 5 years helping audit firms adopt technology at Qualtrics.

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New data from Microsoft's threat intelligence team shows that email phishing attacks are accelerating worldwide as attackers adopt increasingly stealthy techniques to evade detection. These trends present growing risks for Irish organisations and their employees, many of whom remain under-prepared as tactics rapidly evolve.

The key findings include:

8.3 billion – Microsoft detected 8.3 billion email-based phishing attempts globally in Q1 2026, reinforcing email as a primary entry point for cyberattacks.

QR code phishing is up by 146% – QR code-based phishing attacks surged by 146% over Q1?2026. Attackers embedded QR images in PDF attachments, accounting for 70% of QR phishing by March, to slip malicious links past traditional email filters.

Fake CAPTCHA scams were up by 125% – March 2026 saw a 125% jump in phishing emails gating malicious links behind fake "verify you're human" CAPTCHA pages – nearly 11.9?million attacks that month, as criminals add fake security checks to trick users and bypass detection.

Credential theft – The vast majority of these email attacks (90%) aimed to steal user credentials rather than deliver malware, reflecting a shift by threat actors towards account compromise over payload-based attacks.

Phishing service disrupted – In early March, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit disrupted the "Tycoon2FA" phishing-as-a-service platform, leading to an immediate 15% drop in that operation's phishing activity for the rest of the month.

These global trends have clear implications for Ireland. Recent figures from Banking & Payments Federation Ireland's FraudSMART programme show Irish SMEs lost nearly €19?million to email scams over the past two years, while more than half of those businesses had no dedicated fraud-awareness training for staff, highlighting a local preparedness gap as phishing tactics become more deceptive.

Kieran McCorry, national technology officer at Microsoft Ireland said: "As new tactics like QR-code scams and fake CAPTCHAs surge, it's a wake-up call for organisations in Ireland to step up vigilance. Attackers are constantly refining their methods to trick even experienced employees, so questioning unexpected emails and having robust processes are essential now to protect credentials."

On a related note, CyberGym, the large-scale AI security benchmark backed by UC Berkeley's Center for Responsible, Decentralised Intelligence, just announced that Microsoft's MDASH now tops the industry leaderboard, surpassingMythos. What's most notable is the approach. MDASH is the first multi-model service CyberGym has included in the benchmark, and it now ranks at the top, ahead of single-model systems. You can read more about it here.

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