Minister Harris launches new support and a one-stop shop for people seeking to upskill or retrain

Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris TD has today launched a new online portal for people seeking to upskill or retrain. The online portal – www.gov.ie/therightcourse – is a one stop shop for businesses, employees or unemployed persons and outlines the third level options available to them. This can be a short part-time…

CONFIRM Research Centre Launches New World-Class Digital Manufacturing Facility in Smart Manufacturing

Photo (L to R) attached: (Dr Eoin O’Connell, Funded Investigator, Confirm Centre | Professor Kerstin Mey, President, University of Limerick |Professor Conor McCarthy, Director of Confirm) 11th of December, 2020 Confirm, the world-leading Science Foundation Ireland research centre in Smart Manufacturing hosted by University of Limerick, has today launched a new headquarters, a bespoke 1,619 m2 Digital Manufacturing…

€2 Million Laya Health & Wellbeing Clinic Opens Its Doors In Limerick

12 JANUARY 2021: The new €2 million state-of-the-art Laya Health & Wellbeing Clinic at the former Ivan’s Bakery in Caherdavin has opened its doors. The 7,416 sq ft facility has created over 20 jobs and is the third Laya Health & Wellbeing Clinic to open nationally. With recent laya healthcare research revealing that one in five are delaying getting…

Shannon Chamber Urges Companies to be Customs Ready when Exporting to the United Kingdom

Major change can always be subject to glitches, and the current delays being experienced by hauliers and freight forwarders in transporting goods from Ireland to the United Kingdom, while linked to issues with technology, can also be partly laid at the doors of some exporters and importers who don’t have the systems in place for…

Managing childcare during lockdown

Employers’ responsibilities when it comes to childcare during lockdown Shannon Chamber HR is a dedicated HR and Employment Law Support Service for members of Shannon Chamber provided in partnership with Adare Human Resource Management, experts in Employment Law, Industrial Relations, Human Resources and Health & Safety at preferential rates. As we start the new year in…

Shannon Chamber’s Summation of 2020 – A Year of Challenge, Adaptation and Resilience

Reflecting on a year that posed many unanticipated challenges for its member companies, which were responded to with powerful resilience, Shannon Chamber is looking ahead to a year of continuous adaptation but with some glimmer of hope for sectors adversely affected by the pandemic once the escalation of the virus can be tackled and vaccines…

Laya Healthcare Announces Partnership with Munster Rugby

Laya healthcare has increased its support of rugby throughout Ireland as it announces a new three-year partnership with Munster Rugby today. Building on its existing partnership with Leinster Rugby, laya healthcare has also joined forces with Connacht Rugby and is now the Official Health & Wellbeing Partner of the three provinces. Laya healthcare plans to…

Shannon Airport gets early Christmas present from Ryanair

Ryanair to reopen its Shannon base and operate 14 routes from Shannon for summer ‘21   Tuesday 22nd December 2020: Shannon Group has today welcomed the announcement by Ryanair that it will re-open its Shannon base with one based aircraft and recommence 14 routes from April ’21. Welcoming the announcement Mary Considine, CEO, Shannon Group…

Company operating structures of the future will differ from pre-pandemic days…Shannon Chamber Webinar hears

Having been forced to operate in a very different way during COVID-19, the dilemma for many businesses now is how to transition staff back on site once the current restrictions are eased and a vaccine is distributed. The challenge of navigating to a hybrid style operation will be bigger than that faced when adjusting to…