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How a Focus on Data Helps Achieve your People Strategy

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Dave A. Barry, founder of Conexion explains how the importance of exploring the right ‘people analytics’ is crucial in the modern hunt for talent. As a HR leader, I consider myself very fortunate to have worked with both Eli Lilly (biopharmaceutical) and Trend Micro (cybersecurity) during periods of significant organisational transformation. Between 2009 and 2011, […]
Business Culture Feature News

Gender Challenge in Local Government

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Local government plays an important role in creating and supporting environments that enable the community to achieve optimal health and wellbeing. Reducing gender inequity for women is a key strategy in achieving this goal. Definition: Gender Bias – ‘The often unintentional and implicit differentiation between women and men by placing one gender in a hierarchical
Culture Feature News

Limerick City Launches New Video Campaign

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Limerick City and county council launched a new video campaign called ‘Our Council, Our Stories’. The videos focus on the plethora of diverse county council employees in order to educate citizens about the day to day tasks of their local workforce. These videos, created by Southern Media and launched by the marketing department in Limerick […]
Business Feature News

Meet the Buyer: Limerick LEO Event

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Last month a large number of food producers such as restaurant owners, supermarket groups, and chefs gathered at the Limerick Institute of Technology to participate in the Meet the Buyer Event. This event, which hosted more than 75 up and coming businesses, allows participants to pitch their ideas to the top trade buyers from Ireland, […]
Environment Feature News

Dublin to host international cycling conference

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Dublin will host Velo-City, an international cycling conference later this month. The event is being hosted by the Dublin City Council and will take place from the 25th to the 28th June at the Convention Centre Dublin. Over 1500 delegates are expected to attend the four-day event. Transportation has always been a defining characteristic of […]
Environment Feature

Repair, Remake, Reimagine.

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Less than 5% of household waste is reused by Irish families. National Reuse Month is an initiative that hopes to improve this percentage by organising events and campaigns alongside local authorities for communities across the country. National Reuse Month was launched by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action & Environment on the 27th September in […]
Feature Health Technology

€1.1m Investment for Dublin MedTech Start-up

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Halo Business Angel Network has announced today that its MedTech Syndicate has led a €1.1million Series A funding round in Dublin-based start-up, OstoForm. Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) is an all-island umbrella group responsible for the development of business angel syndicates in Ireland. Business Angel Syndicates are groups of like-minded investors of high net
Culture Feature Tourism

Limerick Jazz Festival Returns

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Limerick Jazz Festival is returning to Limerick city for its seventh year running this week. The jazz trail take in four venues across the city, where great music and great international artists will play over four days. The festival has been running since 2012 and continues to attract a host of fantastic line-ups; this year’s […]
Business Feature

Innovation Voucher Deadline Approaching: A Need to Know

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Enterprise Ireland have issued a call to small limited companies, registered in Ireland, interested in developing links with Ireland’s publicly funded knowledge providers – Universities, Institutes of Technology, and publicly funded research bodies like Teagasc. SMES can explore a business opportunity or problem with the assistance of a public knowledge provider, and