Ryan Harmon, Author at Council.ie

Cork County’s second ‘School Zone’ has been officially launched at Bunscoil Rinn an Chabhlaigh in Rushbrooke, Cobh by Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton TD, and Deputy Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Deirdre O Brien. The newly developed ‘School Zone’ includes colourful child friendly traffic calming measures which are designed […]

The Future of HR: From Flux to Flow

HR is in a state of flux. Global volatility and uncertainty has driven a focus on how to steer through the next few years but increase the business value from HR. It is a journey from flux to flow. The labour market is experiencing acute shortages of key skills, as employees go through the ‘Great […]

Business Education News

Knowledge Transfer Ireland Announce Winners of 9th Annual Impact Awards

Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI), the Irish body that helps connect businesses of all sizes to publicly funded research opportunities, has announced the winners of their 9th annual Impact Awards. The KTI Impact Awards celebrate the work of the Higher Education Innovation Offices around the country, and their role in helping transform academic research into commercial […]

Council Partners Environment News

Christmas Lights Lit By Pedal Power in Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are putting the environment top of their Christmas list this year by making greener, eco-friendly choices with Christmas lights. Living Christmas trees and fairylike forest walks all aglow, generators fuelled by Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil, extra low voltage LED’s and Christmas tree lights lit by pedal power on the iconic bandstand on

Technimark Expands Longford Facility to Meet Growing Demand in Medical Market

Technimark, a global manufacturing leader for the medical market, announced that it will create 80 new highly skilled roles over the next two years as it expands its facility in Longford, with a 50,000-square-foot addition, doubling the size of its existing plant. Technimark will be investing €26 million to expand the facility’s capacity in medical manufacturing,

Business Council Partners News

Kildare County Council Launches ‘Shop Local, Support Local’ Christmas Campaign

Kildare County Council’s Economic & Enterprise Office have launched a shop local marketing campaign designed to create greater public awareness of the importance of shopping with local businesses over the Christmas period. The ‘Shop Local, Support Local’ campaign will include radio and newspaper advertising and active social media promotion of local businesses around

Business Environment News

200 Businesses to Take Part in Free Commercial Fleet Trial for Electric Vehicles

The Department of Transport and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) have announced the launch of a Commercial Fleet Trial. Businesses will be trialling a fully electric vehicle to see how they can work for their business to save money and emissions. Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan, said, “two hundred businesses nationwide will have […]

Health News

Department of Health Publishes Health in Ireland Key Trends 2022

The Department of Health has published Health in Ireland Key Trends 2022. Highlights from the report include: Significant increase in activity with 1.5 million attendances to hospital Emergency Departments in 2021, an increase of 13% year on year, and 3.2 million attendances to outpatient appointments in 2021, an increase of 8% year on year. 83% […]

Lord Mayor of Dublin Signs Twinning Agreement with City of Kyiv

The Lord Mayor of Dublin Caroline Conroy has signed an agreement to begin a twinning process with the Ukrainian city of Kyiv. The Lord Mayor and the First Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State, Mykola Povoroznyk, signed the Dublin Kyiv Twinning Agreement during the Lord Mayor’s visit to the 2022 Kyiv Investment Forum in […]

IDA Ireland Welcomes Pfizer’s €1.2 Billion Expansion

IDA Ireland, together with An Tánaiste Leo Varadkar welcomed Pfizer’s announcement of its €1.2 billion expansion at its Grange Castle facility. This investment will see a new facility built on the site premises and will double the capacity for biological drug substance manufacturing at the facility and create hundreds of new jobs at the facility. Pfizer […]

Shopping in Limerick is Easier Than Ever This Christmas!

Seasonal shopping in Limerick offers the chance to soak up the festive atmosphere under the city’s twinkling lights, and, with a choice of options of how to get to and around Limerick this December, there is more reason than ever to shop local this Christmas. As part of a series of initiatives to entice more […]

News

Best Of Council Journal News – November Highlights

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Environment News

National Food Waste Prevention Roadmap 2023-2025

The Government has published the National Food Waste Prevention Roadmap 2023-2025. Food waste is a global problem that has environmental, social and economic consequences. Growing, processing, transporting and storage of food all use a significant amount of resources. Tackling food waste is one of the key steps we can take to achieve sustainability, to help […]

Cork City Heritage Urban Orienteering Project

Cork City Council is delighted to announce the launch of the Cork City Heritage Urban Orienteering Project. This fantastic project has been developed as a fun outdoor activity that is suitable for all ages. The aim of the orienteering routes is to get people involved with heritage and to raise awareness of and celebrate Architectural […]

Skills for Better Business – A New Resource for SMEs Launched

Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar, and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, launched Skills for Better Business, a two-part initiative aimed at assisting SME owners and managers across Ireland. Skills for Better Business comprises an Online Tool for management skills assessment,

Council Journal November Newsletter!

Our Council Journal November Newsletter went out today, packed full of the best news stories for November from around Ireland! The Council Journal is a market leading information, intelligence and news resource that reports on Local Authorities & Government in Ireland. Be sure to follow us

Environment News Technology

Success of Electric ELVES Training Programme for the Safe Collection and Recycling of Electric Vehicle Batteries

ELVES, Ireland’s End-of-Life Vehicle compliance scheme, has welcomed Minister Ossian Smyth, Minister of State with responsibility for Public Procurement, eGovernment and Circular Economy to Plunket College, Dublin, to celebrate the success of the Electric ELVES training programme for Authorised Treatments Facilities, (ATFs or permitted scrapyards) who are involved in the

Financial News

Investment of €853M in Ireland’s European Regional Development Programmes

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath TD, together with the Southern Regional Assembly, Northern and Western Regional Assembly and the Eastern and Midlands Regional Assembly, launched Ireland’s two European Regional Development Programmes (ERDF) Programmes for the period 2021 – 2027. Following lengthy negotiations, the EU Commission adopted the

South Dublin County Council Wins Innovation Award at 2022 Chambers Ireland Awards