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Feature News Transport
Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Wexford County Council and Kilkenny County Council are delighted to announce that An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, T.D. will perform the official opening ceremony for the N25 New Ross Bypass on the afternoon of Wednesday the 29th of January 2020. The 15km scheme represents an investment in the order of €230 million in […]
Environment Feature News
A new report launched today (Tuesday 14 January 2020) outlines for the first time the range of actions local authorities have undertaken nationally to tackle climate change and to promote climate action within their communities. All local authorities to develop new climate action plans as 28,000 employees to be trained in climate action A new […]
Feature Housing News
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
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 […]
Feature Housing News
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
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
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
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
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 […]