Barry Brennan
CTAHR) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, passed away at home in the early morning hours on January 27. Supportive of colleagues and a leader in
CTAHR, Brennan was a great mentor for many.
Brennan came to Hawaiʻi in 1967 after graduating with his bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University. He studied in the entomology department (now part of the Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences), earning his master’s degree in 1969 and PhD in 1975. He served as
UH’s pesticide coordinator and pesticide applicator training coordinator from 1976 to 2001.
Brennan with his grandson.
During much of this period, Brennan was a member of, and even chaired, the Department of Environmental Biochemistry. He took a leave from August 1997 to January 1999 to work in Washington,
Forty years after they first got together to make music, Sligo based Those Nervous Animals are about to release their first complete studio album, The Mission Sessions, consisting of songs from early days and from every decade since, the most recent material recorded remotely during the first Covid-19 lockdown of 2020.
The core band consists of singer and instrumentalist Barry Brennan, bassist and arranger Eddie Lee and guitarist and songwriter Pádraig Meehan.
On this project they are joined by Susan Rowland on vocals and by percussionist/sound engineer/drummer Tom Jamieson.
Those Nervous Animals were just a little bit unusual among new Irish bands of the 1980 s; they mixed blue-eyed soul, funk and indie into an uncategorizable whole.
Customer relations platform ServiceDock acquired by Critizr
The Dublin start-up had raised €500,000 from backers and counted a number of large brands among its clients.
ServiceDock, an Irish start-up that has developed a customer feedback platform, has been acquired by French company Critizr.
The ServiceDock platform is used by retail businesses to manage their customer relations and gather data from customers through messaging apps like Facebook’s Messenger.
The Dublin-based start-up was founded in 2016 by Leonardo Correa and Oisin Ryan. It had raised €500,000 from Enterprise Ireland and angel investors including CapF9 Ventures founder Barry Brennan.
France’s Critizr, which develops similar products for customer engagement, said it will be integrating ServiceDock’s products with its own to fuel its push into the Irish and UK markets. No financial terms for the acquisition have been disclosed. The French company has raised more than $18m from investors to date, with b