Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation announces additional financial resources for IDA Ireland in light of UK/EU referendum result 22nd September

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D., announced today that €500,000 is being made available by her Department to the IDA to support the Agency’s global communications in the wake of the  UK/EU referendum result. The Minister indicated that the resources will be used to help the IDA undertake additional promotional…

World Routes Marketing Awards win recognises hard work and innovation at Shannon Shannon Airport’s global standing as a leading international airport in its class has been reinforced with its selection as winner of the World Routes Marketing Awards 2016 for airports under 4 million passengers. For the second time in three years the airport claimed…

Celebrating Irish-German business connections at the Shannon Chamber seminar (front l-r): John Bowe, Mazars Ireland; Ronan Harbison, German-Irish Chamber of Industry; Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Chamber; Gerry Vahey, Mazars Ireland. Back (l-r): Michael Guinee, Ei Electronics, Kevin Thompstone, the Thompstone Group; Conor McCarthy, Padraig Nolan and Trevor Charsley, Afex Global Payments and Risk Management Solutions;…

  Helen Downes, chief executive, Shannon Chamber and  re-elected to the Chambers Ireland Board pictured with Alan Shine, CEO, North Kildare Chamber (left) and John Hurley, CEO, Kilkenny Chamber, both newly elected members of Chambers Ireland Board.   Highlighting the Shannon Region’s role as a key driver of balanced regional development nationally is one of…

Monday 26 September 2016:   Shannon Airport is delighted to announce that Kuwait Airways is to extend its Kuwait to New York JFK transit service through Shannon into the 2017 and double frequencies in the interim. The service began operating three times weekly from the end of June for a planned four month period but the…

Joanna Lumley with Shannon Duty Free employee Jackie Connolly at Shannon Airport.   Shannon Airport staff member Jackie Connolly had another dream day at the office this week as she got to meet one of her movie icons, the classy British actress Joanna Lumley, on Sunday.   Lumley, an OBE, burst onto TV screens in…

Choice Hotel Group has announced that Sean and Elaine Lally are joining the partnership as co-owners and operators of The 4 star Hotel Woodstock on Shanaway Road in Ennis. Sean and Elaine are very familiar with Ennis as Sean has worked at The Old Ground Hotel in the early 90s as Deputy Manger when it…

    Indigenous industries in the Shannon Region worried about their export prospects following the recent Brexit vote will have an opportunity to get expert advice on how to react next Thursday, Sept. 22 at a Shannon Chamber seminar. The fall-out from the Brexit vote will be addressed by Trevor Charsley of FX Risk Management…