Kildare County Council is pleased to announce the appointment of Helen Mulhall as an EU Just Transition Fund Tourism Activator. Mulhall will play a pivotal part in supporting and guiding private and community-based Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in developing high-quality project proposals and grant applications through Fáilte Ireland’s EU Just Transition
Image; www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Mariya Gabriel and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD have today (Thursday) launched the European Union’s new research and investment programme, Horizon Europe. Horizon Europe will be the biggest programme
Picture above: Web Summit in Dublin 2015 In June of 2020, Web Summit hosted 32,000 online attendees via Collision. Six months later they more than tripled this number with their flagship event welcoming 104,328 attendees from 168 countries, making it the largest online business conference of the year. All powered by their own proprietary software. And as […]
Picture above: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, TD. Image courtesy of Twitter. Ireland’s Minister for Tourism, Catherine Martin TD, urges closer cooperation on recovery at EU Ministers high-level meeting The EU has been urged to consider ways to enable the recommencement of safe travel, as vaccine programmes proceed, so
More than three-quarters (76%) of Irish businesses have experienced growing uncertainty across the data protection spectrum over the last 12 months with no signs of this abating according to a new survey from the Association of Compliance Officers Ireland (ACOI). Released ahead of World Data Protection Day (28 January) The survey of more than 250 […]
Ryanair has agreed to buy a further 75 new Boeing 737 MAX-8200 aircraft, bringing the total number of the jets that it has ordered to 210. The total value of the deal, including the 135 that it had previously ordered, is $22 billion. Ryanair expects to take the first deliveries of the aircraft from early […]
The European Commission’s Small Business Act Fact Sheet for 2017 found Ireland is the top performer in skills and innovation in the EU. Another measure where Ireland scores particularly well is the percentage of public contracts being secured abroad by SMEs. This is at 17.2% many multiples of the EU average of 2.6%. In eight of […]
The EU was called upon last week to abolish daylight savings time in a parliamentary committee. The Finnish parliamentary transport and communications committee gave its recommendation after more than 70,000 Finns signed a petition for citizens asking their government to cease this seasonal procedure. Their argument, that daylight savings time has an adverse effect on […]