Shannon Chamber’s Inaugural Mid-West Sustainability Week Hailed as an Incredible Week by Speakers and Attendees alike

Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Chamber pictured at the S4 Sustainability Conference in Westpark Shannon with conference speakers (seated from left): Jim Dollard, executive director, generation & trading, ESB, conference sponsor, and Julie Sinnamon, council member, The Climate Change Advisory Council. Back row (l-r): Damien Kilgannon, real estate director, Fine Grain Property (Ireland) Ltd; Lisa Vaughan,…

Pictured at the Shannon Chamber/Grant Thornton Budget 2024 breakfast briefing (from left): Damian Gleeson, partner in charge, Grant Thornton; Éanna McGarrigle, Tax Manager, Grant Thornton; Helen Downes, CEO, Shannon Chamber; Stephen Kinsella, Professor of Economics, University of Limerick; and Theresa O’Gorman, Director, Tax, Grant Thornton. Photo by Eamon Ward.   In the context of where…

University of Limerick President Professor Kerstin Mey has paid tribute to the Irish American philanthropist Chuck Feeney following his passing. “I am sure I speak on behalf of the entire University of Limerick community past and present in expressing our sorrow at the loss of one of the most giving of men in Chuck Feeney….

As a pioneering technology, The VBOX Portable Secure Network Solution facilitates lights out remote access to PC systems/machines with no network card or those not allowed to be connected to an IT Network. In addition, VBOX demonstrates corporate responsibility by participating in sustainability and the circular economy, playing its part to protect our planet in…

Leo Clancy, CEO, Enterprise Ireland (3rd left), keynote speaker at a Shannon Chamber lunch in Dromoland Castle Hotel pictured with (from left): Colin McDonald, chief executive, Fine Grain Property (event sponsor); Helen Downes, CEO and Eoin Gavin, president, Shannon Chamber. Photograph by Eamon Ward   Companies without sustainability plans will be locked out of their…

3 October, 2023: There isn’t a community in the country that can’t learn from the success of a West of Ireland village when it comes to reducing the impact of pesticide use on drinking water sources.  For years pesticide exceedances were an issue for Newport’s water supply in Co Mayo, but a targeted team approach has…