Vanessa Fox elected vice-president of PDFORRA

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

Vanessa Fox, 1ST Infantry Batallion, Galway, has been elected vice president of PDFORRA, at the PDFORRA Annual Delegate Conference in Westport last week. She is the first woman to be elected to a senior executive position in the organization. Ms Fox is originally from Castlerea, Co Roscommon. She has 18 years service in the Defence Forces, which includes a six month tour of duty in Lebanon, with the 81st Infantry Batallion. She has been regional and district secretary with PDFORRA for the past five years.

Challenging times require inspirational and visionary leadership — CIPD event told

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

Strong and visionary leadership is what is required if businesses are to overcome the tough economic times currently being experienced — this was the message coming loud and clear from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) at their annual gala event hosted by the Clayton Hotel and sponsored by CCP Recruitment last week.

New MD for Winters Property Management

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

LAMA award-winning Galway company Winters Property Management has announced that Tom Murphy is to take over the role of managing director, leaving his current position of director of operations.

AquaChem launches showerhead that kills legionnaires disease at source

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

With frequent scares in recent weeks over Legionnaires disease, a new product has been launched on the Irish market which prevents the risk of the disease at the point of use.

Western company launches Ireland’s largest online computer store

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

Screenway, the west’s largest independent computer retail company, has launched a brand new customer-focused, interactive website this month. The site, www.screenway.ie, is designed in direct response to Screenways research into what the customer really wants. Better value computer and IT equipment.

The reality of real estate

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

With construction halting and the economy faltering, does this mean that auctioneers have become the ham in the sandwich between bewildered buyers and startled sellers?

Pass on the interest rate cut, lobby groups tell banks

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

Business lobby groups have welcomed the .5 per cent reduction in interest rates announced on Wednesday by the European Central Bank (ECB) and have demanded that the full benefit be passed on immediately by the banks.

Central banks across the world co-ordinated emergency rate cuts in an attempt to stem market chaos but Irish business groups have now called on the relief to be passed on to Irish businesses.

West of Ireland planning firms merge

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

Galway based AP McCarthy Planning Consultants Ltd and Environmental Consultants Keville & O’ Sullivan Associates Ltd. announced their merger today. The new company, McCarthy Keville O’Sullivan Limited will commence trading immediately and will provide existing and new clients with a more comprehensive range of environmental and planning services.

Are you in the habit of sending hasty emails?

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

Drunken employees who feel like telling their bosses what they think of them in late night emails have been given a second chance by a new software application that will prevent such mistaken missives.

Purchasing land and the tax issues

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

Q. I am purchasing land in Mayo from a non resident. He has told me that I don’t have to withhold tax from the payment. I think that he is wrong. What is the correct position?

€30 million funding announced for prepared consumer food sector

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

The Government, through Enterprise Ireland, expects to provide some €30 million over the next five years to progressive companies in the prepared consumer food sector through its R&D and growth funds, An Tánaiste Mary Coughlan announced this week.

Curleys’ Furniture welcomes new neighbours DID Electrical

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

One of Galway’s most successful furniture retailers, Curley’s Furniture, will this weekend welcome its new neighbours, DID Electrical, to the Briarhill Business Park in Ballybrit.

Galway Executive Skillnet announces autumn/winter courses

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

Galway Executive Skillnet has rolled out its autumn/winter schedule of subsidised training courses.

All training courses are subsidised by up to 70 per cent. Courses are open to both self-employed and organisational employees within companies of up to 250 employees.

When the chips are down - Supermac’s features in The Apprentice

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

Supermac’s, Ireland’s largest indigenous fast food chain was the latest company to appear on TV3’s The Apprentice. The Apprentice which is the same format as in the UK and the US, but this time the boss, Irish entrepreneur Bill Cullen, is offering the successful candidate a role working in his organisation for 12 months and a salary of €100,000. The launch of the show has been a great success.

IBEC welcomes ESB investment

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

The start of construction this week by the ESB on a new 110kV station at Seamus Quirke Road in Galway is a welcome development for the region, according to IBEC regional director John Brennan.

New sales and marketing executive for Castle Print

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

Galway-based print company Castle Print has just announced that Eddie Redmond has joined its team as sales and marketing executive, as they expand their ever growing business opportunities.

That’s entertainment

Thu, Oct 09, 2008

The Jennings family is the TF Royal. Pat, his wife Mary, and even their children Louise, Patrick, and Jessica have all in some way shaped and been shaped by this entertainment empire in the centre of Castlebar.

British money starting to flow into Irish banks

Thu, Oct 02, 2008

The announcement by the Government that it will guarantee all money saved with an Irish institution for two years has enticed overseas investors to withdraw their money fropm their own countries and put into the named Irish banks and institutions.

A Bank of Ireland spokeswoman said evidence suggested that British savers were moving cash to the bank to take advantage of the guarantee.

Child’s play pays as Smyths set to open 35th store

Thu, Oct 02, 2008

Smyths Toys, the company which has grown from humble beginnings in the West of Ireland is set to continue its expansion into the UK when it opens a new store in Cardiff in two weeks time.

The company which has stores in Galway, Mayo and Westmeath, started out as a newsagents in Claremorris and now has 34 stores in Ireland and the UK, with the new store at Cardiff bringing the total to 35.

Gulf building boom’s a boost for Alpine Recruitment

Thu, Oct 02, 2008

Leading specialist agency Alpine Recruitment is going from strength to strength in the construction/engineering recruitment sector, especially in the Middle East. Recruiting for both Arab and international building and civil engineering developers, project management, and professional quantity surveying companies, Alpine is proving to be unrivalled in sourcing the best candidates for the right jobs.

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