As part of the government’s ‘Housing For All’ plan, in July 2022 the Vacant Property Refurbishment grant was launched, aiming to enable ordinary people to bring vacant properties back into use as homes. After a slow initial take up, the remit of the scheme was expanded and the grant increased […]
The world’s first transatlantic cable, which sent its first telegram 166 years ago, started in Valentia Island off the coast of Co Kerry. Now subsea cables carry 99 per cent of the world’s internet traffic. Today’s cables enable the transmission of light along fibreoptic strands within the cable, enabling an ever-increasing […]
