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Taylor wins Boxing Gold
Ireland's boxing sensation Katie Taylor won her country's first gold medal of London 2012 by beating Sofya Ochigava. The 26-year-old lightweight, who is considered a national hero in Ireland after winning four world and five European titles, beat the Russian 10-8....
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Business Anticipates Ploughing Championships
Sixty-two South East based companies, from App design technology to GAA gear, hope to generate more than €1.5 million in sales at this year's National Ploughing Championships. The South East Enterprise Village, launched today (Wednesday 11th July) by the South East...
New Future For 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...
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Demand For Pilots Remain As Jet Set Turns Sixty
Aspiring pilots to attend exhibition six decades after first commercial jet flight. Sixty years after the first jet airliner carried fare paying passengers, The Professional Flight Training Exhibition, taking place in Dublin in early March, expects to welcome many...
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Fishing Industry Convention To Protect Seafarers
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. "The...
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Zero Maintenance Buildings Creating Sterile Towns
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...
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Finland is a model for Ireland
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. Minister Sherlock said the visit...
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...