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SDCC Launch Affordable Homes Portal

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South Dublin County Council has launched a new portal to seek provisional expressions of interest from the public for the provision of affordable homes. The launch of the portal follows the recent allocation of €18 million to South Dublin County Council by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government through the government’s Serviced Sites […]
Feature Financial News

Ministers McHugh and Mitchell O’Connor announce €18.75m capital grant for Cork institute of technology under Project Ireland 2040

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The Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. and the Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D. today announced an €18.75 million investment in Cork institute of technology. The funding is being allocated under Project Ireland 2040, which commits to exchequer investments of €2.2 billion in Ireland’s higher education infrastructure over […]
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Successful landlord training scheme, organised by Fingal County Council and RTB, takes place

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Some 30 landlords attended the free day-long event at the Clayton Hotel Dublin Airport which provided free training to better inform them of their rights and responsibilities, policy and regulatory changes in the sector and how to successfully manage tenancies.  The course covered a number of areas including pre-tenancy guidelines, the rights and responsibilities of
Feature Health News

Taoiseach and Minister Zappone host event marking launch of National Childcare Scheme

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The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone T.D., has today marked the opening of the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) for online applications with An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD. The National Childcare Scheme opened for online applications on Wednesday 20th November 2019.  Acknowledging this achievement, Minister Zappone stated: This is a landmark
Feature Housing News

Minister Murphy publishes Winter Rough Sleeper Count, Homeless Quarterly Progress Report and October Report on Homelessness

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Commenting on these reports Minister Murphy said: “Rebuilding Ireland continues to put in place supports to help people out of homelessness. Today we see that those sleeping rough is at its lowest level since 2015 and the lowest since Rebuilding Ireland began. In October, there was a decrease of 23 families and 47 children in […]
Education Environment Feature News

The Story of Water, a new documentary exploring the development and current state of Ireland’s public water network

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Understanding the role that water plays in our daily lives Research commissioned by Irish Water and conducted by B&A indicates that 44% of the Irish public admit they ‘know nothing or not very much’ about the work carried out by Irish Water and almost 80% of those surveyed say that they are interested in hearing […]
Culture Feature News

Putting a Purple Spotlight on Disability this Tuesday

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Today is ‘International Day of Persons with Disabilities’ and Donegal County Council will be joining the rest of the country and the Disability Federation of Ireland in putting a purple spotlight on disability. All Public Service Centres across Donegal will display external purple lighting to celebrate the resilience of people with disabilities both in Donegal […]
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Tánaiste and Minister Kyne kick start public consultation process for new national policy on our offshore islands

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At a special event today, Saturday 23rd, on Sherkin Island, An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Coveney T.D., in conjunction with the Government Chief Whip and Minister of State for the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, Seán Kyne T.D. will launch a consultation process aimed at formulating a new national policy […]