Shannon Airport Resumes Scheduled Passenger Services

Lift-off for Inaugural Vienna flight from Shannon Tuesday 1st July 2020: Scheduled passenger services resumed today at Shannon Airport with the first of sixteen Ryanair services taking off including the inaugural service to Vienna. Two other services to Lanzarote and Manchester resumed today with other services recommencing in the coming days. All sixteen Ryanair flights…

Tánaiste encourages companies to apply for new round of Tariff Suspension / Quota Schemes

1st July 2020 The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar TD, has today (Wednesday) announced a new round of the tariff suspension/quota schemes and has encouraged manufacturers in the chemicals, microelectronic and related sectors to apply. The tariff suspension scheme allows companies to import raw materials, components or intermediate products from…

Business and Government Must Now Plan for a Hard Brexit in 6 Months Time

In a disappointing, if expected non-development, Britain has casually avoided the opportunity of applying for an extension to the Brexit transition period. Businesses throughout Europe, crippled by the Covid-19 crisis wreaking havoc on the Global economy, would have welcomed the opportunity to extend the transition period. An extension would have allowed an ambitious trade deal…

SPEECH OF THE TÁNAISTE AND MINISTER FOR ENTERPRISE, TRADE & EMPLOYMENT, LEO VARADKAR T.D.

Presentation of the Department of Business Enterprise and Innovation’s 2020 Revised Estimate to the Dáil    Dáil Éireann Tuesday 30 June, 2020 Ceann Comhairle, Our country has been through four months without precedent in the history of our State.  Lives were lost, businesses were closed, and it took a terrible toll on our families, our…

Shannon Chamber Welcomes Government Grant Support for Shannon Airport

Friday, 26 June 2020: Shannon Chamber welcomes the announcement by Government that it is to make a one-off €6.1 million grant to Shannon Airport to complete the necessary Hold Baggage Screening capital project at the Airport. “Having outlined in our Pre-Budget 2020 Submission to Government that under EU rules, airports with over 1 million and…

Companies need to Capture the Positives from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Embed them in their Guiding Principles…leading author and academic tells Shannon Chamber Webinar

Companies need to quickly capture what their employees liked about responsiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic, otherwise it might get lost and, given that the past few months have forced companies and their staff to be adaptable and flexible, it is essential to consider how acceptable change in the organisation might be for the long term….

Shannon to resume scheduled passenger operations from the 1st July

Shannon to resume scheduled passenger operations from the 1st July

New COVID-19 measures being introduced at Shannon Airport  Journey through the airport will be as contactless as possible  Monday 22nd June 2020: Shannon Airport employees are busily readying the airport in preparation for the return of passengers on the 1st July. While the airport remained open for essential services to facilitate cargo, repatriation and emergency…

Shannon Chamber Secures Funding from Skillnet Ireland to Deliver a Suite of Training Webinars to Help Companies in all aspects of re-opening their Businesses

Shannon Chamber is delighted to announce that it has been allocated funding by Skillnet Ireland, under its ReBound programme, to deliver a suite of training webinars to assist companies in the manufacturing and aviation sectors with all aspects of re-opening their businesses. The ReBound programme was introduced to enable small and medium-sized companies and managers…

Shannon Chamber Secures TED Presenter, Renowned Author and Academic to address upcoming Leadership Webinar

  The three-legged stool of management used to be forecast, plan and execute; however, these days, the very best forecasters don’t think they can see accurately more than 400 days out and for most people, the horizon is just 150 days. That’s the view of world-renowned TED presenter, author and academic, Dr Margaret Heffernan who…

Appointment of Shannon Group plc CEO to the Aviation Taskforce welcomed by Shannon Chamber Board

The board of Shannon Chamber welcomes the recent announcement that its ex officio president and current board director Mary Considine, CEO of Shannon Group plc has been appointed to the recently established Aviaiton Taskforce.   “Aviation is such a critical sector for this region’s economy, not only at an airport level but for the entire aviation…