The Department of Rural and Community Development is currently developing a new, whole-of-Government rural development policy for Ireland. This will follow on from the Action Plan for Rural Development which was published in January 2017 and reaches the end of its three-year timeframe in 2019. The new rural policy will be forward-looking, with a 5-year…
Niall Gibbons, CEO, Tourism Ireland (3rd left), pictured at the Shannon Chamber lunch in Dromoland Castle Hotel with (from left): Tony Brazil, Limerick Travel; Michael Vaughan, Vaughan Lodge, Lahinch; Mary Considine, president and Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Chamber; Niall O’Callaghan, managing director, Shannon Heritage and; Dermot Kelly, president, Irish Hotels Federation. Photo: Eamon Ward. …
Co Clare Hotel, Hotel Doolin, Win Excellence in Environment – LIC – Award, sponsored by EPA, for their project Green Team Work While Boots Ireland was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Award at Chambers Ireland’s CSR Awards 2019, at the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road in Dublin last night (19 September…
Some of the Zimmer Biomet team at Shannon, who manufactured the implants, used to transform the lives of 100 patients in Vietnam as part of Operation Walk Ireland. Back row, left to right: Garry Ennett, Seamus Lynch, Kenneth Collins, David Corbett, John O’Donoghue, Roy Thompson and Stephen O’Kelly. Front row, left to right: Darren Kierse, Craig…
Shannon Chamber, in conjunction with Employability Clare will host an evening seminar dedicated to the topic of health and wellbeing in the workplace. The event, which is being held at Ei Electronics’ Centre of Excellence in Shannon Free Zone, from 6pm – 8pm on Thursday, 19 September, will include a keynote address by accomplished author…
An open invitation has been extended by Richard Bruton T.D., Minister of Communications, Climate Action & Environment to Shannon Chamber members to attend a Climate Action Forum which takes place on Friday, 6 September in Limerick. The Forum takes place at Tait House, Roxboro Road, Limerick, V94, NXT8. commencing with registration at 11.3opm, concluding at…
Chambers Ireland will be participating in 27th edition of the annual Eurochambres Economic Survey 2020 (EES), which, each year, seeks to capture the expectations of the European business environment and the challenges it faces. This qualitative study is based on a series of questions addressed and answered by over 45,000 company responses. It will be particularly…
Chambers Ireland is a member of the Eurochambres Women’s Network, which comprises of Chamber members/policy leaders from across the European Chamber network. The group is tasked with working on policy recommendations that will support women in business, inclusion in the workplace and female entrepreneurship. In order to get a wider understanding of the challenges women…
Milford Hospice Harvest Fair volunteers (from left): Angela Quinn, Brid Foster, Peggy Riordan, Kate Devane and Ann O’Sullivan are seeking donations for their stalls at the Milford Harvest Fair. Photo: Keith Wiseman. Milford Care Centre is asking the public throughout North Tipperary to consider donating goods for the many stalls that will be in…
Continued uncertainty around Brexit has highlighted the importance of capacity building in the customs intermediary sector and the necessity to boost ‘in-house’ customs capacity amongst business that are regularly trading with the UK. Delays at customs can result in disruption to both business and customers. Taking steps now to train key staff on how to…
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