Steve Linnane, general manager, Element Six, welcomed Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Chamber, Jennifer Stratton, continuous improvement engineer with Cook Medical and chair of the Mid-West Lean Network (MWLN) and Chamber members to the on-site lean workshop. Photo by Eamon Ward. Operating from a 22-acre site at Shannon Free Zone for the past sixty-two years, Element…
One of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of the State will ensure sustainable water supplies for half of the population up to 2050 and beyond June 25, 2024 – The delivery of the Water Supply Project, Eastern and Midlands Region is critical to sustainable economic growth, enabling housing delivery and attracting investment to…
Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Chamber (centre) pictured at the digitalisation and AI seminar held in Future Mobility Campus Ireland, delivered by the EY Consultancy team pictured from left: Brian Moroney, Orla Duffy, Vikram Kunnath, Maurice Foley, Megan Conway, Tim Cush and Tim Bergin. Photo by Eamon Ward. Keenly focused on capturing trends in manufacturing…
Monday, 24 June, 2024: Water supply has returned to the majority of customers in West Clare following a burst to a water main yesterday. Uisce Éireann crews were immediately deployed and worked hard to restore normal water supply to impacted customers as quickly as possible in Coore, Miltown Malbay, Spanish Point, Mullagh, Clonadrum, Moloskey, Creegh, Cooraclare…
John McInerney, Captain, Lahinch Golf Club leads the PAFS Ireland Ltd team onto the fairways of Shannon Golf Club. Shannon Chamber’s annual golf classic is gaining notoriety as a not-to-be missed event with 52 teams and over 200 golfers choosing to swap their desks for the fairways to compete in this keenly contested competition, where…
Newly elected mayor of Limerick John Moran was one of more than 1,000 people to have attended Ireland’s largest Irish-UK collaborative manufacturing event, which was held at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) newly opened Coonagh Campus – just hours after he was elected as Limerick’s first citizen (June 12, 2024). Organised by the…
Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) is urging more businesses based in the Limerick and Clare region to be involved in delivering its various education programmes. These programmes are guaranteed to be both a worthwhile employee engagement experience, enable the company to forge closer links with the local community and help tackle educational disadvantage. Through…
Ensuring best practice while sharing ideas and experiences around student engagement in a new era in education, was central to the Biannual Student Affairs Ireland Seminar which took place in the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) Moylish Campus this Tuesday (June 18, 2024.) More than 180 student affairs professionals from 19 Higher Education Institutes…
The Antaris team, led by chief operating officer, Eugene Cush, pictured with Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Downes. With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) now mandatory for companies with more than 500 employees, and with those with more than 250 employees coming into the net from January 2025, and listed SMEs from January 2026,…
The WRC Inspectorate carries out workplace inspections to ensure Employer compliance with a range of employment laws. In its recently published Annual Report, the WRC highlighted that the inspection service carried out 4,727 workplace inspections in 2023, up from 3,943 in 2022. The inspections found that 2,221 Employers had contravened employment law. These cases comprised…
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