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At a time when honey bee health and colony losses are a global concern, Galway-based Advance Science is celebrating 15 years in business – and 15 years of helping beekeepers around the world keep their bees alive and thriving.

There should have been celebration in Ireland this week. After a weekend of sporting triumphs, the country was ready—almost hungry—for a lift from the relentless gloom of recent times. Joy was supposed to ripple through communities, offering a brief but welcome relief. Instead, a hollow stillness has settled around kitchen tables and parish halls, a darkness that no good news can penetrate. A pain in our gut. Five young lives—bright, beautiful, beginning—were taken in an instant on the Ardee Road at Gibstown in Dundalk. And now a nation finds itself grieving alongside the families who must somehow live in the aftermath.

World Bee Day on Monday May 20 was marked by researchers at University of Galway posing a quest to the people of Galway, following their calls for the public to support the monitoring of more than 500 wild and native honey bee colonies.

An exciting EPA co-funded doctorate project has been completed by Jack Eakins at Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) Athlone Campus, in partnership with Maynooth University.

It had been more than 24 years since I spoke to Martin Costello of Corofin, until I saw him again yesterday. The last time we spoke, was in the kitchen of his home where I documented the heartache he was feeling at the horrific killing of his sister Eileen Costello-O’Shaughnessy. I remember then, as a young reporter, seeing the impact that grief could have on a person.

The bee is among some of the hardest working creatures on Earth. The pollination service bees provide is vital for food production and biodiversity. In fact, if we no longer had bees, aside from the huge upset to our ecosystem, we would quickly lose apples, tomatoes, coffee, and cocoa. Our crop production would be forced to switch to staple crops, rather than the more nutritious options. Currently almost two-thirds of the crops that feed the world rely on pollination by insects or other animals, and the bee provides us with an abundance of fruits, nuts, and seeds of variety and quality.

BEES, ANTS, and beetles are disappearing eight times faster than mammals, birds, or reptiles, and the current rate of decline may lead to the extinction of 40 per cent of insects over the next few decades.

POSITION YOURSELF between The Breeders' Last Splash - on the 'Divine Hammer', 'Invisible Man', rather than 'Cannonball' side of the spectrum - and The Beatles and 1960s psych-pop, and you have Spain's Me and The Bees.

The Skeff are delighted to have nominated BUMBLEance as their 2016 charity partner.