Shooting has wrapped on ‘Woken’, an Irish thriller filmed in Limerick and Clare, starring Erin Kellyman (Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Green Knight) and Maxine Peake (Shameless, The Theory of Everything, The Falling). Filmed over five weeks on location in Limerick and West Clare the film is funded by Screen Ireland and produced by Fantastic
Month: May 2022
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Leave No Trace Ireland, Ireland’s only outdoor ethics programme, which promotes the responsible use of the outdoors, has launched its third national awareness campaign urging the public exercise care in their enjoyment of the outdoors including public parks, open countryside, and beaches. Record numbers of people are taking part in outdoor activities, putting increased
RTE sports pundit Marty Morrissey and RTE One’s Ireland’s Fittest Family coach, host of RTE 2FM Breakfast, and Irish rugby legend Donnacha O’Callaghan have been announced as the MC and special guest respectively at the upcoming Cork County Mayor’s Charity Ball on June 10th 2022, joining C103’s Patricia Messinger. Hosted by the Mayor of the […]
Ericsson has announced its plans to hire 250 people at its Irish R&D Centre in Athlone to support the company’s ongoing development of innovative cloud-native products that orchestrate, automate and power its global 5G portfolio. The highly skilled roles, which include opportunities for software developers, data scientists, architects, cloud and mobile communication
The award winning Love your Beach week is back for its second year, this time with more fun and games for all of the community to enjoy! Having recently won a silver award in the Best Environmental/Ecological Project Initiative at the All Ireland Community and Council Awards 2021, Galway City Council are once again proudly […]
Conor Holland, ESG Director at KPMG Ireland, explains how the EU’s Business Sustainability Reporting Directive will lead to fundamental change in corporate reporting. Without doubt, the European Union Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) represents the biggest single transformation in corporate reporting in the last 25 years. In a change akin to the
The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, has announced a new funding stream to support Local Authorities to purchase vacant buildings which can be converted and developed for community use. The funding, which is being made available under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme, aims to support the continued regeneration of our rural […]
Dublin City Council is delighted to announce that the team from TU Dublin has come first in the ENFUSE finals to support a local enterprise in Dublin by sharing ideas, knowledge and creating a bespoke plan to help the enterprise innovate. 11 student teams competed at this year’s ENFUSE Finals last night by pitching to […]
Integrity, a leading global IT consultancy in the life science industry is expanding its business in Ireland with the creation of new job opportunities in the Cashel area. Integrity set down roots in Ireland in October 2021 and is now ready to embark on its expansion across Ireland. This project is supported by the Irish Government through […]
Fingal County Council and the Football Association of Ireland have celebrated the graduation of the class of ’22 on the Football and Fitness TY Course, a joint collaboration based at the Corduff Sports Centre. The only course of its kind in Ireland, Football and Fitness has welcomed the latest graduation of its TY students, providing […]
Tipperary County Council in partnership with Limerick City & County Council, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the Department of Transport have published details of the Preferred Transport Solution for the N24 Cahir to Limerick Junction Project which is identified as a priority investment in the Government’s National Development Plan 2021-2030. This integrated
Catherine Martin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health, have announced a national symposium on creativity, health and wellbeing to be held on Wednesday 22 June 2022. The all-of-government Creative Ireland Programme, the Department of Health (Healthy Ireland), the Health Service Executive and the Arts
Learning Limerick hosted a UNESCO Learning Cities Seminar in University of Limerick’s City Centre Campus, Sarsfield Street, Limerick as the flagship event for this week’s Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival. The event featured guest speakers from the Irish Network of Learning Cities, including Belfast, Dublin, Cork, and Derry/ Strabane. As well as the sharing of best […]
Supermetrics, a Helsinki SaaS data integration tool that automates resource-consuming data delivery, announced the creation of up to 100 new jobs over the next 2 years alongside its investment in a dedicated Dublin office. The expansion of its Dublin operations demonstrates Supermetrics’ commitment to the region, while strengthening the company’s international
Meath students from St. Patrick’s Classical School have taken a national award in the Senior Category at this year’s Student Enterprise Programme National Finals. The Finals of the Local Enterprise Office initiative were held physically for the first time in three years at the Helix in Dublin with An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and host RTE’s […]
Dublin Port Company (DPC) has launched a new water safety awareness campaign, bringing comedy stars Darren Conway and Joe McGucken aboard to help spread the important message. The campaign is being launched ahead of the bank holiday to help promote the safe and responsible use of Dublin Bay for leisure and recreation this busy summer season and
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, and Minister of State for Skills and Further Education, Niall Collins, have launched 10,697 places on 275 free courses, under Springboard+ 2022. Springboard+ courses are from Level 6 (certificate) to Level 9 (masters) on the National Framework of Qualifications and are delivered by
Festival organisers from Youghal Medieval Festival, Clonakilty International Guitar Festival and Timoleague Harvest Festival have embarked on a new Cork County Council green festivals pilot programme to support the greening of festivals in the county. Funded by Cork County Council, the programme will include training workshops, virtual support sessions and in person
Galway based ICS Medical Devices has revealed a major expansion plan, with the opening of a new facility that will boost its manufacturing capacity and its workforce. The company is a catheter design and manufacturing services provider, based in Ireland’s west coast medtech hub. The company is moving into a new 16,000 sq ft manufacturing facility. […]