Conor Galvin, managing director, Golf Voyager (centre), with fellow finalists and judges at ITB China. Judging panel describe Golfvoyager.com as a truly innovative travel technology platform In the same week as Limerick-based Golf Voyager, the booking engine that allows golfers to custom–build their own golf package in minutes, announced a partnership with three-time Major…
Shannon Airport has today announced the commencement of a €15 million, 100 job project to upgrade the airport’s runway, the longest runway in Ireland at 3,199 metres (almost two miles). Dublin based specialist in this area, Lagan Asphalt Group, with offices in Tulla in County Clare, has been appointed by the airport to undertake the…
Monday 8 May 2017: Shannon Airport is fully geared up for a strong 2017 summer programme with a 16% increase in capacity in this year’s summer season services now getting into full swing. With 35 services in all, Shannon is set for a bumper season across all key markets. The US is strengthened again this…
The Minister for Employment and Small Business, Pat Breen TD is in Estonia today (Monday) for a series of bilateral meetings. These meetings form part of an ongoing programme of engagement by Irish government Ministers with EU Member States in an effort to build awareness of the unique impacts of Brexit on Ireland and to…
With forty per cent of all exports from Ireland to Europe using the UK as a land break the impact of Brexit on Irish trade could be significant, if customs are to be reintroduced. This was a point raised today with the publication of a report entitled ‘Brexit and Customs – Cost and Consequences’ by…
Survey highlights the need for SMEs to be Brexit ready – Minister Breen The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD, has today published the findings of a survey of 1,045 SME business owners which was conducted in January by Behaviour & Attitudes, and has set out a number of actions…
2nd May 2017 Today, the Government approved draft legislative proposals brought forward by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD, and the Minister for Employment and Small Business, Pat Breen TD, in response to the commitment in the Programme for Government to address problems caused by the increased casualization of work…
Shannon Airport was in celebratory mode at the weekend as one of the world’s best known airlines, Lufthansa, commenced scheduled flights for the first time from the airport as its new Frankfurt service took off. The service to the financial capital of continental Europe and one of Germany’s most interesting tourism cities took to the…
The British Ambassador to Ireland, Robin Barnett (7th from right) met with a delegation from Shannon Chamber, Lufthansa Technik Shannon, GE Digital Solutions and Care About You Ltd. during his first visit to Shannon. Photograph by Eamon Ward In office since August 2016, the British Ambassador to Ireland, Robin Barnett, paid his first visit…
Tony Donohoe has been appointed the new Chair of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) welcomes the establishment of the new National Skills Council (NSC). This is the final step in the establishment of a new national skills architecture following the restructuring of the Expert…
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