Sixteen new bus corridors have been proposed in Dublin, the construction of which could require the reduction of approximately 1,300 front gardens as well as walkways, trees, and on-street parking. All 16 of the routes are radial routes, meaning they head to or from City Centre, and most of them pass by commercial areas. Some […]
Month: June 2018
Dublin City Council’s upgraded free cycle parking facility was opened today in Drury Street Car Park by Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mícheál Mac Donncha. The expanded unit now has a capacity to hold 332 bicycles. This is twice the capacity of the original facility opened in 2009, the Council have said. Facilities which have been upgraded […]
The Government has decided to push forward with plans of merging Galway City and County Councils into one no later than 2021. The decision followed a report presented to cabinet last week by Minister of State for Local Government and Electoral Reform, John Paul Phelan. The report endorses the recommendations of the Galway Expert Advisory Group […]
A new €750,000 fund for fintech and deep tech start-up companies has been announced today by Enterprise Ireland. The fund is designed to enable recipient companies working in areas including fintech, proptech, artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, the internet of things, blockchain and cloud, to reach key technical and commercial
Today marks the start of MoneyConf 2018, a conference dedicated to exploring the future of finance and technology. Now in its 4th year, MoneyConf is expected to draw more than 5,000 people to Dublin’s RDS Arena over the next three days, 11 – 13 June. The event will offer speeches and panels with a line […]
Bus company Go-Ahead Ireland has announced today that it is creating 425 jobs and investing €8.5 million as it expands its operations to include Go-Ahead Dublin. Since the company was granted a contract from the National Transport Authority (NTA) last August, the Go-Ahead Ireland buses have been running 24 of the existing Outer Dublin Metropolitan […]
The 15 winning projects for South Dublin County Council’s 300k annual Have Your Say initiative have been announced. Now in its second year, Have Your Say €300k is a local democratic process, allowing citizens in a local community to decide how to spend a portion of a public budget in their area. For 2018, citizens from […]
Ireland’s top tourist attractions, paid and free, have been revealed in Fáilte Ireland’s annual list of “Ireland’s most popular visitor attractions” for 2017. The Guinness Storehouse once again drew the most visitors, with 1,711,281 people coming through its doors this year. The National Gallery of Ireland, however, received the most significant
Today it has been announced by Government that almost €11 million is to be allocated for flood relief schemes in County Donegal. Minister of State for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran met with officials from Donegal County Council this morning to discuss advancement in flood relief measures. A scheme […]
Major school building projects have been interrupted with the news that Sammon Contracting Ireland was placed into liquidation yesterday. The Co Kildare based construction group employs more than 200 people directly and many more subcontractors indirectly. Following on from UK contractor Carillion’s collapse, a company who owed Sammon Contracting Ireland €8m,
The new County Donegal Development Plan 2018-2024 has now come into effect. Adopted by the elected members of Donegal County Council on May 9th of this year, it is the first consolidated Plan for the entire functional area of Donegal County Council which includes the former Town Council areas of Letterkenny, Buncrana and Bundoran. This new […]
Ireland’s largest home grown Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider Abtran is set to create 350 new jobs in Sligo. As part of its expansion plan in the north-west region of Ireland, Abtran will base a new regional operations centre in a high-tech facility at Finisklin Business Park. Recruitment for the roles in Sligo has began, with […]
With over 1,600 members and an ambitious 3-year development plan, Lean Construction Ireland (LCi) have recently made the decision to incorporate and have now appointed a Board of Directors. This initiative, to incorporate, will allow the Directors to concentrate on growing the association and the development of lean principles within the Irish construction sector through