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Irish Independent
a day ago
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Mia Griffin claims victory in national road race cycling championships
Kilkenny woman Griffin, riding for the Switzerland-based Roland team, was part of a ten strong group that dominated proceedings for most of the race. This front group also contained last year's winner Fiona Mangan (Winspace Orange Seal), Caoimhe O'Brien (Cynicsa), Aoife O'Brien (DAS Hutchinson), Linda Kelly (Spin the Bean), Emma Jeffers (Liv AlUla Jayco), Lucy Benezet Minns (Lotto Ladies), Abi Conway of Westport Covey and Dan Morrissey duo Marine Lenehan and Aine Doherty. After a cagey affair for much of the day, defending champion Mangan put in a couple of attacks on the final of four 25km laps. This sparked several counter attacks from her breakaway colleagues, none of which stuck until Benezet Minns took off solo with around 12km to go. A strong time triallist, Benezet Minns opened a gap of 18 seconds as she passed through the finish line and went out onto the 9.4km finishing circuit. Her lead began to dwindle however as the nine chasers got their act together and worked hard to bring her back. Her advantage fell to ten seconds with 5km to go and the junior road race and time trial champion for the past two years was caught just inside the final kilometre. In the gallop for the line, Kilkenny woman Griffin used her track speed to blitz the sprint and take the title by a bike length from Caoimhe O'Brien, with Marine Lenehan taking the bronze. Emma Jeffers finished fourth to take the under 23 title from fifth placed Aoife O'Brien with Abi Conway taking the bronze in seventh place. After an impressive victory in the junior women's time trial championship on Thursday night, Aliyah Rafferty stormed to victory in the junior women's race, finishing over a minute and a half clear of Greta Lawless of Dawson racing who outsprinted Dungarvan's Aoife O'Donovan for silver. In the earlier junior men's race, Conor Murphy of Caldwell Cycles soloed clear of two breakaway colleagues to add the road race title to the time trial title he claimed on Thursday night despite an early bike change. Rory Condon of Zappi Racing took silver at 1:22, while France-based Darragh Byrne (AS Villemur Cyclisme) outsprinted Matthew Walls of Lucan for bronze 44 seconds later. James Armstrong, who had been in the three-man break until the dying kilometres took fifth ahead of VC Glendale teammate Toby Sweetman
Evening Standard
2 days ago
- Sport
- Evening Standard
Western Force vs British and Irish Lions: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream, team news, lineups, h2h, odds today
Perhaps we should not have been surprised to see the Lions edged out by Argentina, whose status as 7-1 underdogs for victory in Dublin seemed ridiculous despite missing a number of France-based stars, particularly when you consider that they beat all of New Zealand, South Africa, France and Australia in 2024 and are currently ranked fifth in the world - three spots ahead of the Wallabies.
Time Magazine
3 days ago
- Business
- Time Magazine
TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025: Schneider Electric
For more than 20 years, Schneider Electric has been guided by an ambitious goal: to drive the global energy transition forward through electrification, digitalization and automation. Schneider's products and services support everything from smart energy and building management to industrial automation and EV charging. The France-based multinational supports the sustainability practices of 40% of the Fortune 500. 'We accompany customers from strategy to execution,' says Chief Sustainability Officer Esther Finidori. One example of what that looks like: Schneider helps its customers buy renewable energy from suppliers, accounting for 60% of such purchasing in the U.S. market. 'It's complicated for corporations today to source renewable energy,' Finidori says. But with its global profile, Schneider says it has helped customers avoid 679 million metric tons of CO2 emissions since 2018—equivalent to taking over 130 million cars off the road for a year. Today, the company's decarbonization solutions are in 40% of commercial buildings and homes, 50% of hospitals, and 33,000 wastewater facilities around the world. One prominent building example is JFK Airport's New Terminal One in New York City, construction of which began in September. Schneider is providing software and other tech to help build a 12-megawatt microgrid with over 13,000 solar panels—touted as the largest rooftop solar array in New York City and in any U.S. airport terminal. The microgrid will power half of the terminal's daily operations. Schneider is also helping ensure that the power-hungry data centers proliferating amid the AI boom are energy-efficient. Last year, in collaboration with AI chip giant Nvidia, the company introduced the first publicly available AI data center reference designs. Disseminating those designs is important 'because this is how we'll achieve efficiency and scale while making sure the best practices are widely adopted,' Finidori says. Schneider is achieving sustainability and efficiency not only for its customers, but in its own operations and the supply chain that supports its $38.8 billion in annual revenue. With 130,000 employees spread across 108 countries, the company's carbon footprint is complex. But Schneider aims to achieve net-zero operations by 2030 and net zero across its value chain by 2050. (During the last five years, it's cut emissions in its entire value chain by about one-fifth.) 'We want to demonstrate it's feasible to decarbonize fast and everywhere by doing it in our own operations first,' Finidori says. The company—which ranked #1 on TIME's World's Most Sustainable Companies of 2024 and 2025 lists—is on track, Finidori says. From 2021 to 2024, Schneider, which links its sustainability goals to employee pay, more than halved its operational emissions. The winning change strategy is clear: '[E]lectrification of everything—heating, industrial processes, our fleet—as well as sourcing renewable energy,' she says.
The Journal
4 days ago
- Politics
- The Journal
'No double standards': Zelensky signs agreement to try 'war criminal' Vladimir Putin
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR Zelensky has signed an agreement that will establish a trial for President Vladimir Putin whom he described as a 'war criminal'. Zelensky signed an accord with the Council of Europe to set up a special tribunal to try top officials over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as he made his first visit since the start of the conflict to the France-based rights body. But after a face-to-face meeting with Trump earlier the day at the Nato summit in The Hague, Zelensky made an impassioned call for close ties between Europe and the US president. 'We need a strong connection with him (Trump),' Zelensky, who had a public spat with the American leader in the Oval Office earlier this year, told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. 'We need unity between Europe and the United States and we will prevail,' Zelensky said, adding: 'We need unity in Europe first of all.' The proposed special tribunal would prosecute the 'crime of aggression' in the full-scale invasion, which Russia launched in February 2022, and could, in theory, try senior figures up to Putin. 'We need to show clearly aggression leads to punishment and we must make it happen together, all of Europe,' said Zelensky after signing the accord with Council of Europe secretary general Alain Berset. 'There is still a long way to go. Justice takes time but it must happen,' he added, saying the accord is a 'real chance to bring justice for the crime of aggression'. 'It will take strong political and legal courage to make sure every Russian war criminal faces justice, including Putin,' Zelensky said. Advertisement 'No double standards' Berset said the next step to set up the tribunal, which the Council of Europe hopes could start work next year, would be an enlarged agreement to 'allow the widest possible number of countries to join, to support, and to help manage the tribunal'. It has not yet been decided where the tribunal would be based but Zelensky said The Hague would be 'perfect'. 'International law must apply to all, with no exceptions and no double standards,' said Berset. This is the first time such a tribunal has been set up under the aegis of the Council of Europe, the continent's top rights body. The 46-member Council of Europe is not part of the EU and members include key non-EU European states such as Turkey, the UK and Ukraine. Russia was expelled in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine and its supporters want to see justice served for Russia's all-out invasion in 2022 and European foreign ministers endorsed the creation of the tribunal in a meeting in Lviv in western Ukraine on May 9. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has already issued arrest warrants for Putin over the abduction of Ukrainian children and four of his top commanders for targeting civilians. But the ICC does not have the jurisdiction to prosecute Russia for the more fundamental decision to launch the invasion – otherwise known as the 'crime of aggression'. According to the Council of Europe, the tribunal will be set up within the framework of the body 'with the mandate to prosecute senior leaders for the crime of aggression against Ukraine'. It said the tribunal 'fills the gap' created by the 'jurisdictional limitations' of the ICC. With reporting from AFP. Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
Evening Standard
4 days ago
- Sport
- Evening Standard
Western Force vs British and Irish Lions: Kick-off time, TV channel, live stream, team news, lineups, h2h, odds
Perhaps we should not have been surprised to see the Lions edged out by Argentina, whose status as 7-1 underdogs for victory in Dublin seemed ridiculous despite missing a number of France-based stars, particularly when you consider that they beat all of New Zealand, South Africa, France and Australia in 2024 and are currently ranked fifth in the world - three spots ahead of the Wallabies.
