Birr Telescope Project Beamed Onto EU Stage

Jim Higgins, MEP for the Midlands-North-West Region, today hailed as “impressive” the plan presented in Brussels to create a new super powerful telescope at Birr Castle, Co. Offaly. LOFAR (Low Frequency Array) is a next-generation radio telescope that is currently being deployed across Europe, with stations already operating in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, the UK and France. […]