All children starting school in September 2022 can get a free Book Bag at their local Cork County Council libraries. As part of the initiative, a ‘My Little Library Book Bag’ is available free for every child starting school in 2022 to help them to prepare for this big step. Children and their parents or […]
Day: 19 April 2022
Global Irish Festival Series to Attract Diaspora Home to Mayo, Donegal, Limerick and Kerry This Year
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD and Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and Diaspora, Colm Brophy TD, have announced that the Global Irish Festival Series will take place along the Wild Atlantic Way in Mayo, Donegal, Limerick and Kerry this year. A joint initiative between Fáilte Ireland […]
The Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has announced a €20 million for school library book grant will be provided to recognised primary and post-primary schools for the purchase of books, audio books and other media for the purposes of improving their existing literacy resource banks. This €20 million fund will be paid to schools […]
The latest PMI survey, from S&P Global, shows that business activity in Dublin experienced a sharp and accelerated increase in Q1 as the COVID-19 Omicron wave faded. The headline rate increased to 60.1, from 59.4 in Q4, marking four successive quarters of growth. Activity strengthened across all three monitored sectors, led by construction. Output across the rest of
Citi have announced that it intends to create 300 new jobs for Ireland this year. Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe T.D. and Cecilia Ronan, Citi Country Head Ireland, with Martin Shanahan, CEO, IDA Ireland made the announcement at Citi’s European Bank headquarters on North Wall Quay in Dublin. The bank employs 2500 people in Ireland […]