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. That’s according to...
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. St Patrick’s Day is an opportunity for the global Irish family, wherever they are living, to joyously acknowledge our...
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). Commenting on the report Mr. Gerard O’Leary,...
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...
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...
