People Need to Understand the High Cost of Not Listening to their Bodies …Mental Health specialist Dr Harry Barry tells Shannon Chamber seminar

People Need to Understand the High Cost of Not Listening to their Bodies …Mental Health specialist Dr Harry Barry tells Shannon Chamber seminar

Dr Harry Barry (far right) pictured in Ei Electronics at the Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace seminar with (from left): Mike O’Riordan, IT & Supply Chain director, Reagecon Diagnostics; Eilish Neville, Addiction Counsellor and Dr Deirdre Smithwick, consultant psychiatrist, Community Health team, Shannon and; Helen McQuillan, team leader, Employability Clare. Photo: Eamon Ward….

Chambers lead the way on Sustainable Development Goals

Chambers lead the way on Sustainable Development Goals

Chambers Ireland and ICC Ireland have announced that both they and the network of affiliated Chambers across Ireland have together signed up to a new charter to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reflect the objectives of relevant Goals in undertaking their activities in the future. Chambers Ireland chief executive Ian Talbot commented on…

Rural Policy 2020 – Invitation to Partake in Public Consultation Survey

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…

InvoiceFair Wins Deloitte Award

InvoiceFair Wins Deloitte Award

On 20 September, InvoiceFair was announced as winner of the ‘Most Disruptive FinTech 2019’ at the Deloitte Financial Services Innovation Awards. Deloitte press release https://www2.deloitte.com/ie/en/pages/financial-services/articles/fsia-press-release.html. Receiving the Deloitte award from David Dalton, Head of Financial Services Deloitte; Helen Cahill CEO & Co-Founder and Peter Brady CFO & Co-Founder InvoiceFair.

IT’S THE SIMPLE THINGS THAT MAKE IRELAND STAND OUT AS A TOURISM DESTINATION

IT’S THE SIMPLE THINGS THAT MAKE IRELAND STAND OUT AS A TOURISM DESTINATION

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.  …

Boots Ireland take home the Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2019

Boots Ireland take home the Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2019

  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…

Zimmer Biomet Shannon Plays a Key Role in Helping 100 People in Vietnam Walk Again

Zimmer Biomet Shannon Plays a Key Role in Helping 100 People in Vietnam Walk Again

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 Group raises €8K from charity 5k

Shannon Group raises €8K from charity 5k

Tuesday 10th September 2019:  Shannon Group, in conjunction with Shannon Chamber, has raised more than €8,000 from an inaugural 5K event through the Shannon Free Zone last Thursday for this year’s Shannon Group designated charities, the Irish Cancer Society and Limerick Suicide Watch. The Shannon Group chosen charities will receive the boost thanks to monies…

Shannon Chamber Enlists Accomplished Author to Initiate Conversation on Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

Shannon Chamber Enlists Accomplished Author to Initiate Conversation on Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

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…