Day: 8 December 2021

Health News

The Healthy Ireland Survey 2021

By Ryan Harmon
The Healthy Ireland Survey 2021 has been published by the Department of Health, showing the general landscape of Irish people’s health across a range of categories. Smoking 18% of the population are current smokers, a decline of 5 percentage points since the first wave of this survey in 2015 and roughly equivalent to smoking levels […]
News Transport

Government Approves DART+ Programme

By Ryan Harmon
The Dart +West programme has been given government approval to enter the planning system, which is a crucial milestone in expanding and transforming the rail network in the Greater Dublin Area. Government today also approved the preliminary business case for the wider DART+ Programme. DART+ will: Double passenger capacity per hour to 52,000 and treble […]
Council Partners News Technology

Free Outdoor Public WiFi Goes Live Across Towns in Mayo Under WiFi4EU Project

By Ryan Harmon
Mayo County Council was successful in securing €60,000 under the WiFi4EU project. This European funding was matched funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development. The WiFi4EU Project provides a free outdoor public Wi-Fi service in 9 locations in County Mayo.  The service is installed in public places such as main streets, public parks […]
Business Financial News

High Potential Dublin Start-Ups

By Ryan Harmon
Ireland’s capital remains one of the leading European tech cities, just behind London and Paris. So it’s encouraging that the latest Financial Times’ Tech Cities of the Future rankings described Dublin as a “thriving hotspot for start-ups”, and Enterprise Ireland’s support structures for early-stage entrepreneurs play a huge part in the city scoring highly.