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Irish Independent
29-07-2025
- General
- Irish Independent
Leitrim centre aiming to keep Irish heritage alive with popular stone wall course
Dry stone construction, the practice of building using only stone without any mortar is seen as a long standing rural tradition and an essential part of our history and social fabric. Dating from the neolithic period, in Ireland the patchwork of stone walls are still easily recognisable on our landscape and fields, and forge part of our identity as a people. In December 2024, the craft was added to the prestigious UNESCO list of protected cultural practices. Ronan Crehan from the Dry Stone Wall Association of Ireland and Office of Public Works will be giving a course this coming weekend at the Organic Centre in Leitrim. Mr Crehan is passionate about the craft, working in the Office of Public Works as part of their heritage services in the preservation and maintenance of the national monuments of Ireland. He is also a stone mason, dry stone walls instructor and member of the Dry Stone Wall Association of Ireland and recognises the importance of safeguarding measures to protect our precious past for future generations. He says, 'Recently, drystone walling was recognised in Ireland as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. "This is fantastic, because this means that the craft and the walls can be protected. "Drystone walling has been making a steady come back over the past 20 or so years.' Mr Crehan has found that Irish people have been keen to help protect the walls on their land. 'As a course it is very popular, because a lot of people have drystone walls on their land and the courses give them access to the knowledge on how to repair and maintain them. "Drystone wall's and the craft of drystone walling is a living heritage and UNESCOs recognition of this has promoted and protected that even more,' said Mr Crehan. The Organic Centre in Leitrim is one of the pioneer centres to acknowledge the importance of stone walls to our culture providing dry stone walling courses for over two decades. Mr Crehan said The Organic centre is a perfect place to run the course, because the participants can see how a drystone wall works in a garden setting. "It can support biodiversity by creating shelter for small mammals and also a place for different plants and lichens to grow among the joints in the stone. "The participants take inspiration from this and can see how something like a drystone wall can work in their own garden,' said Mr Crehan. Mr Crehan's upcoming weekend course will be held on August 2 and 3, and those interested can book online at ring the Organic Centre on 0719854338.
Associated Press
04-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Server-Class Ethernet NIC Market Increased by $2 Billion in 2024, Reports Crehan Research
SAN FRANCISCO, March 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Server-Class Ethernet NIC revenues increased by $2 billion in calendar-year 2024, according to the latest report from Crehan Research. The increase reflects a continuation in the trend of strong investment in server-class Ethernet NICs, resulting in a doubling of market revenues in just three years — despite one of those years having seen relatively weak performance due to a general market inventory correction. Analysis of the strong growth also reveals that data center customers are spending a greater portion of networking budgets on Ethernet NICs (see accompanying chart). 'Data Center Ethernet NICs have gone from low-cost commodity chips soldered down on volume server motherboards to high-performance, differentiated, add-in cards that provide a multitude of high-value network functions, including ones formerly handled by CPUs,' said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research. 'As a result, Ethernet NICs have seen an upward trend in share of data center networking budgets, even as those budgets grew robustly.' Crehan also reported a strong surge in demand for the highest speed NICs during the year, with combined 100GbE, 200GbE and 400GbE NICs increasing more than 50% in both shipment and revenues. 'Although generative AI was a driver of the high-speed Ethernet NIC demand surge,' Crehan said, 'there were numerous other areas contributing to the growth, including general cloud compute and storage.' About Crehan Research Inc. Crehan Research Inc. produces reports with very detailed statistics and information on the data center switch and server-class adapter & LOM/controller (NIC) markets. The company's reports are supported with rich insights and context to deliver increased value.
