AsIAm, Ireland’s National Autism Charity, has launched a new website to support autistic students starting college or resuming on-campus studies this September. The website has been funded by Rethink Ireland through the Innovate Together Fund. One in 65 students in school in Ireland today have a diagnosis of autism and 86% of these young people […]
Month: August 2021
Budweiser, distributed exclusively by Bulmers Ireland (C&C Group plc) in Ireland, has launched ‘Renew 100 Pubs’, a new sustainability initiative to help support Irish pubs in making the switch to renewable electricity. Over the next year, solar panels will be installed in one hundred pubs providing them with a 100% renewable electricity source. This latest
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, has designated Professor Vincent Cunnane to be appointed as the first president of Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest. Professor Cunnane is the outgoing President of Limerick Institute of Technology, and will take up the role in the new Technological University
Would you like to save €700 on food waste. It’s a hard-earned sum of money and yet Irish families throw away on average €700 worth of food every year, and that’s on top of all the waste along the food supply chain from production to sales. Nobody sets out to do their weekly shopping with […]
The Football Association of Ireland is proud to announce that football players representing the Republic of Ireland Senior Men and Senior Women’s international teams will receive equal pay on international duty with immediate effect in a ground-breaking deal for Irish sport. The historic three-way agreement between the Men’s and Women’s squads and the FAI was […]
Clonmel tortilla and tortilla chip producer Blanco Niño is planning to roll out its British and Nordic expansion, having formed partnerships in both regions with both wholesale and retail distributors. In Britain, the company has partnered with retailers such as Ocado and Daylesford Farm, in addition to securing listings with leading wholesale distributors, Cotswold Fayre,
The Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr. Colm Kelleher will officially launch 8 newly installed city parklets this week, on August 31st and September 2nd. Following a call-out for “parklet partners” in September 2020, a number of local businesses and community associations were selected to take part in the National Transport Authority-funded scheme. The parklets, designed by […]
An analysis of the #LuimneachAbú hashtag online by Limerick City and County Council’s Marketing & Communications office has shown that there were 14 million reaches over an eight day period around the All-Ireland Senior Hurling final. Limerick fans around the world showed their ‘true colours’ as they shared their stories and comments with other Limerick […]
Did you know that Irish whiskey almost went extinct in the 1970s? In 1975, there were only two Irish whiskey distilleries left in operation, New Midleton just outside of Cork, and Old Bushmills in Northern Ireland. Both were owned by one company at the time, Irish Distillers, which is now part of Pernod Ricard. Things […]
A new Clare County Fire and Rescue Service maintenance workshop in Ennis, Co. Clare, was officially opened by Darragh O’Brien TD, Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The €1.23m facility, which was completed in May, is located at the Central Fire Station Headquarters and replaces the single-bay workshop in the station that was built […]
As online fraud increases, we need to highlight some of the psychological mechanisms used by cybercriminals to avoid online fraudsters’ tactics. From major cyberattacks to text message scams, there has been an increase in online fraud and security incidents that has likely left many people in Ireland and around the world wondering how they can […]
Before freaking out about commuting again, remember that returning to the office after any lengthy time away (what was known as a “holidays” in before times) has always been tough. So in some ways, this is nothing new. Quarantine has given us the longest Sunday of the modern age, and suddenly it’s Monday. We’re all trying […]
40 tourism businesses across Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands are unveiling new and improved websites following funding and development support from Fáilte Ireland through the Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands Website Improvement Programme. The training and investment programme (grant scheme) was launched in Summer 2019 and was designed especially for visitor attractions and
COVID-19 removed tourists from cities around the world and now Dublin is using smart tourism to rebound and reset. The unexpected pause has given cities an opportunity to take stock and consider how their tourism offer could be reshaped for the better. Many are understanding that the equation can no longer be a purely economic […]
Minister for Social Protection, Heather Humphreys TD, and Minister of State, Joe O’Brien TD, have announced over 2,600 additional places for Pathways to Work on Community Employment (CE) and Tús schemes nationwide. The approval for an additional 1,475 places on CE schemes and 1,164 places on Tús schemes reflects a key commitment in Pathways to […]
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has published new guidelines for schools aimed at helping them improve road safety around their schools. The publication comes as pupils return to school for the start of the new academic year. The new guidelines provide information and tools to assist schools develop and implement a road safety action plan, […]
There’s seemingly no end to the business applications of artificial intelligence. From fraud detection to forecasting sales and analysing consumer behaviour, AI has rapidly become a powerful tool for enterprises across the world. In recent years, building societies and credit unions have increasingly looked to AI as a way to modernise their operations and better […]
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D., has announced a new initiative under the Creative Imagination Strand of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023– ‘Poetry as Commemoration’. The project is led by the UCD Library’s Irish Poetry Reading Archive and supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts,
Hospital consultants are calling on Government to set funding for Ireland’s mental health services at realistic levels in the Health Budget 2022, as the impact of Covid-19 continues to expose the decades-long detrimental effects of severe deficits across the service. Commenting on the launch of its Mental Health Pre-Budget 2022 Submission, the Irish Hospital Consultants
There was a fantastic local response to Bus Éireann’s second annual appeal in support of Meals on Wheels Dundalk, in conjunction with media partner LMFM last week, Thursday 19 August on the Long Walk, Dundalk. Joanne Duffy, Services Manager for Bus Éireann, said, “we are absolutely thrilled with the success of the second Bus Éireann […]