Shannon Airport wins top award from European airline association for third time

Shannon Airport wins top award from European airline association for third time

Thursday 11th October 2018:  Shannon Airport, a Shannon Group company, has received major recognition overnight from the European airline community after being chosen as this year’s winner of the Airport of the Year Award from the European Regions Airline Association (ERA). This is the Airport’s third win, having secured the prestigious title in 2014 and…

Gift Innovations Invests in New Facilities and Expands Product Offering

Gift Innovations Invests in New Facilities and Expands Product Offering

Picture: Mary Doyle, Accounts, Paul Gadie, Director, Ann Lyons, Managing Director & Meghan Harrass, Operations Manager Limerick-based Gift Innovations has expanded its business to meet a growing demand for carefully selected corporate promotional products. Recognising how organisations are using promotional products to enhance their employer brand experience, Gift Innovations saw an opportunity to complement their existing…

Launch of Mid-West Apprenticeship App

Launch of Mid-West Apprenticeship App

Creating Pathways-Building Careers A new innovative apprenticeship app will be launched by the Mid-West Regional Skills forum in association with Limerick Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB) on Tuesday 25th September at the Institute of Guidance Counsellors post primary careers event in the University of Limerick. The purpose of the Apprenticeship App is to assist…

Minister Pat Breen welcomes Taking Care of Business Event to Mid-West

Minister Pat Breen welcomes Taking Care of Business Event to Mid-West

Taking Care of Business: Over 200 attend one-stop-shop event for small businesses in the Mid-West 29 state bodies, agencies and services come together to answer questions and provide answers to small business owners, managers and entrepreneurs. Focus on access to finance for SME’S.   Limerick, Ireland, 25th September Over 200 small-business owners, managers and those…

Minister Bruton welcomes significant subject changes for start of new school year

Minister Bruton welcomes significant subject changes for start of new school year

Picture: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister for Education and Skills Richard Bruton T.D., Dublin footballer Bernard Brogan ,Emma Crumlish, Ciara Rooney, Mark Winters and Conal Kehoe . Continued rollout of the Junior Cycle Short courses in Lithuanian and Korean for Junior Cycle and Transition Year First students take Computer Science & Physical Education at Senior Cycle The…

Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Mr. Pat Breen, T.D. welcomes another strong performance of the Credit Guarantee Scheme

Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Mr. Pat Breen, T.D. welcomes another strong performance of the Credit Guarantee Scheme

Scheme has provided over €93m in lending to SMEs that supports over 3,500 jobs   3 August 2018 Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Mr. Pat Breen, T.D., today welcomed the latest Quarterly Report from the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) on its operation, on behalf…

EXPLORE Programme aims to increase Lifelong Learning rates, provide new opportunities for existing workforce

Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development John Halligan T.D., today launched the EXPLORE programme, an innovative new initiative aimed at increasing participation rates in Lifelong Learning and offering an opportunity to upskill for those already in employment.  The key objective of the initiative is to create a potential new solution to…

Annual Report Reveals 15,000 Irish SMEs Availed of Upskilling in 2017

Annual Report Reveals 15,000 Irish SMEs Availed of Upskilling in 2017

Skillnet Ireland Annual Report reveals 15,000 Irish SMEs availed of upskilling and training in 2017   94% of the member companies that benefited from investment in training through Skillnet Ireland were SMEs Skillnet Ireland Chairperson warns of ever-widening productivity gap between indigenous SMEs and the multi-nationals based in Ireland 6% of the 240,000 SMEs registered…

Element Six to showcase Lean benefits at Shannon Chamber briefing

Element Six to showcase Lean benefits at Shannon Chamber briefing

By adopting Lean methodologies and tools, enterprises can achieve significant improvements in competitiveness, according to Stephen Linnane, HR Manager with Shannon-based Element Six. Mr Linnane was speaking ahead of a Breakfast Briefing on Lean systems organised by Shannon Chamber to be held at Shannon Airport House, Shannon Free Zone on Thursday next, July 19 at…