Ulster University

Um, so, um, there's hopefully going to be some really exciting findings coming out from that over the next year or so, and seeing, you know, what the impact of the effects of, of open goals have been in kind of some more real world, longer term trials.

There's also some great work being led by Ben Parra, a PhD candidate that I'm supervising, and Dr Noel Brick at Ulster University, particularly around sport official abuse.

And I think that for me has been a really important and interesting piece of work to be involved with over the last number of years.

And what's been really great, I think, in terms of Noel's leadership around this is the amount of engagement in a relational work.

Our universities and FE colleges are going well.

Well, the University of Ulster is about to go bankrupt.

Queen's, it tells us, they have no money.

No, not at all.

But it was an interesting start and it took a lot of effort.

And very fortunately, very soon after, I was offered a job at the College of Medicine and Dentistry in Birmingham, which is a part of Ulster University.

So I went up there actually to attend a course myself.

And you know Professor Raj Ryan?

very similar sense.

I didn't know like anyone in industry really yes it was one of those and especially Northern Ireland for anyone listening I think knows Northern Ireland and Ireland is a small place that kind of everyone knows everyone sort of thing we are the walking stereotype but sometimes but It was one of those, especially in building services, because so many, at least in Northern Ireland, came from the Ulster University course and I went to Queen's.

So I was going out going, everyone knows everyone through Ulster University.

I just was sitting there going, I have no idea.

So that, for me, coincidentally enough...

This isn't going to be, let's say, a totally finished document by Ardèche, which takes place in Cork on the 6th and 7th of November.

But the work that is ongoing at the moment with Professor Deirdre Heenan from University of Ulster, but with very real political input by the likes of former Senator Jim Darcy, current TD Eimear Currie, daughter of the great Austin Currie, God rest him, and many others who are elected and unelected is conversations with people from all backgrounds across all four corners of the island, from the business community, from the farming community, looking at, well, what does this mean for the health sector? What does this potentially mean for the enterprise economy? So that we would very much like that we in Fine Gael, Fine Gael, the United Ireland Party, are able to say, well, you know what, this is what we think United Ireland should look like.

Yeah, at the start of the summer, when Sinn Féin raised this whole issue inside the Dáil, pushed for a green paper, pushed for some kind of planning and preparation, Fianna Fáil voted against it.

And I think that's where the confusion arises in all of this.

So we were able to design an isolated wood crib.

there was the Liege test series so we explored about 15 different kinds of wood cribs which were supposed to be kind of nominally consistent with the office fuel load density from the Eurocode and we then took that crib and put it in a large compartment and ran a series of tests this was the Ulster Trafire test series run in care of University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and So, I mean, that was fantastic because it's very rare to be able to study a problem at different scales.

So to have the detailed data from the crib experiments, temperatures, fluxes, mass loss, spread rates, burnout rates, and then to go and look at what happens to the same crib in a full scale compartment.

You were touching on the early work by Juan, the stick versus flat piece of timber versus a structure fire.