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Shannon Airport
“Today’s announcement by the Government that Shannon Airport is to separate from the Dublin Airport Authority into a new entity, which will include Shannon Development, is but the start of a challenging process which will take the airport in a new direction,” said Shannon Chamber’s president Damian Gleeson in Shannon [Read more...]
The Minister for Research and Innovation, Mr. Sean Sherlock
The Minister for Research and Innovation, Mr. Sean Sherlock TD, today (Thursday) concluded a two day visit to Helsinki, Finland where he met with a range of Finnish research and education policy makers, funding agencies and innovators. [Read more...]
Caroline Casey - Social Entrepreneur
Described by the Wall Street Journal as the woman who redefined inspiration, Caroline Casey, founder of Kanchi and the O2 Ability Awards, is making a rare appearance in the Mid-West region on Wednesday, 25 April when she address a business gathering at Dromoland Castle Hotel’s Brian Boru Hall at 6.30pm. [Read more...]
Senior Entrepreneur Recruitment
Around 3,400 people, aged between 50 and 64, started their own business in Ireland last year* but that figure could dramatically increase in 2012 if more people in that age group were encouraged to seek assistance for their business ideas. [Read more...]
St Patrick's Day Message 2012
I wish to send warm greetings on this St Patrick’s Day to Irish people at home and abroad and to our wider Irish family around the world. [Read more...]
Wastewater Treatment Plants
Nearly half of Ireland’s wastewater treatment plants serving urban centres are failing to achieve national and EU standards, according to a new report released today by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [Read more...]
Dublin Energy
Fuel Poverty levels could cover 50 per cent of the population within five years and 75 per cent within a decade if a properly co-ordinated energy policy is not developed, Architect and television presenter Duncan Stewart told the Energy Action conference in Dublin Castle. He also questioned if the €400 million spent each year of fuel allowances was being spent in the right way. [Read more...]
Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship
The many fundraising initiatives by House of Fraser in support of the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) in recent months have lead to the formation of a new scholarship at the Institute, ‘The Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship’. Over the last eighteen months House of Fraser raised an incredible €25,000 for the breast cancer charity at their Dundrum store. The Scholarship is named after Tricia McCarthy, sister of well-known beauty writer Triona McCarthy who has become a champion for NBCRI since her sister was diagnosed with the disease in 2007. [Read more...]
Ireland Fishing
The International Transport Workers Federation co-ordinator for Ireland and Britain, Ken Fleming, has welcomed the decision of that body to publish a Guide to the International Labour Organisation’s Fishing Convention and its call on governments to ratify it. [Read more...]
McDonagh Junction Shopping Centre Kilkenny
Conference hears how using the heritage resources of a town can help it recover from the recession.
“Our drive for uncluttered, zero maintenance buildings is creating sterile, uninteresting towns which are unattractive not only tourists, but for high end multinationals seeking a suitable base for the highly skilled mobile professionals they employ”, according to Liam Mannix, Heritage Council’s Irish Walled Towns Network. [Read more...]
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