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Leave No Trace Awareness Campaign Urges Care and Respect for Our Outdoor Spaces

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

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Cork County Mayor’s Charity Ball Lineup Announced

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 […]

Business News

Ericsson to Hire 250 at its R&D Centre in Athlone

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

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Love Your Beach Week is Back in Galway

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 […]

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Is Your Business Ready for Sustainability Reporting?

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

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Funding for Local Authorities to Purchase Vacant Buildings for Community Use

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 […]

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Team From TU Dublin Wins Dublin City Council’s ENFUSE Finals

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 […]

Business News

Integrity Opens Its European Base in Cashel

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 […]

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TY Students Graduate From Ireland’s Only Football Focussed Course

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 […]

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N24 Cahir to Limerick Junction Project

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

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National Symposium On Role of Creativity and Arts in Wellbeing

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

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UNESCO Learning Cities Gather at UL City Campus

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 […]

Business News Technology

Supermetrics Celebrates Dublin Office Opening

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

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National Award for Meath Students at Enterprise Finals

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 […]

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Irish Public Say They Are Not Attuned to Water Safety

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

Business Education News

10,500 Free Courses for Unemployed Returners to Work

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

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Cork County Council Launches Green Festivals Pilot Programme 2022

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

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ICS Medical Devices Set for Galway Facility Expansion