Funding welcomed for Ireland West Airport Knock

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Ireland West Airport Knock has been allocated €356k of grant funding under the 2010 Core Operational Expenditure Scheme, following an application made to the Department of Transport earlier this year.

Funding welcomed for Ireland West Airport Knock

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Ireland West Airport Knock has been allocated €356k of grant funding under the 2010 Core Operational Expenditure Scheme, following an application made to the Department of Transport earlier this year.

Reopening of Fahey's welcomed

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, TD has congratulated the well known retailer, Fahey's of Main Street, Castlebar, on recently reopening their shop which had been closed for some time. The store has started trading again following the complete and careful refurbishment of the historic building.

One in four Irish workers find it hard to switch off on holidays

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

A new survey from recruitment website www.irishjobs.ie has found that 27 per cent of Irish workers admitted to checking their work emails while on holidays. The survey also revealed that six per cent of workers said they would check work texts while away, and five per cent said they would ring the office while on annual leave.

Council for the West worried about numbers moving to Dublin

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

The Council for the West, which campaigns on socioeconomic issues in the west of Ireland, has expressed its concern about the number of people who will be living in the greater Dublin area in the future and the effect it will have on the west of Ireland. The organisation has called on the Government to examine how sensible it is for the country to have 2.5 million people living within the greater Dublin area within the next 15 years. Commenting on recent research by urban economist Brian Hughes, a member of the Government’s own expert group on population projections, which shows that by around 2070 more than half of Ireland’s population will be living in the greater Dublin area, the council said the trend was for more urbanisation, but it questioned whether a ‘city state’ is the best or only policy to be pursued willy-nilly.

Competition fund for entrepreneurs

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

A competition fund of €100,000 is being offered to winning entrepreneurs throughout Ireland working in the areas of business, arts, and social categories and Mayo people are now invited to enter.

Have your say on the maximum taxi fare

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Taxi users, drivers, and other interested parties have a chance over the next few weeks to have their say on the national maximum taxi fare. The Commission for Taxi Regulation has developed an online facility at www.farereview.taxiregulator.ie to make it is as easy as possible to submit your views. The site will provide background information on how the national maximum taxi fare works, key points to consider when making a submission, and six key questions that you must complete when making your submission.

Ireland is still a favoured location for business

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

The IBEC group representing Irish business has just launched its new report, Ireland as a place to do business, setting out that Ireland is once again becoming a favoured location for foreign direct investment (FDI), a fact borne out by the IDA's recent mid-year review.

Supermac’s in Castlebar recognised for quality service

Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Nominations for this year’s National Q Mark (quality) awards have just been unveiled and sitting top of the line-up is one of Castlebar’s most popular eateries, Supermac’s of Main Street.

The fast-food diner has been nominated for the Q Mark Award for Hygiene and Food Safety in the category of Fast Service Restaurants.

Royal Theatre is Ireland’s West End

Fri, Jul 23, 2010

Locals in Mayo have grown accustomed in recent years to seeing big names lining up at The Royal Theatre in Castlebar and no longer blink an eyelid on learning that stars such as Willie Nelson, Bryan Adams, or Snow Patrol are coming to town. Indeed, the association of Castlebar as a stop-off point for the rich and famous is now so ingrained that it would not surprise us if Kylie or Beyonce made an appearance. Why the fuss?

Migrants are not ‘going home’ but are instead making Ireland their home

Fri, Jul 23, 2010

The level of calls to the Immigrant Council of Ireland’s (ICI) information and referral service in the first half of 2010 has remained consistent with previous years and does not support the rhetoric that migrants are ‘going home’. Instead the opposite appears true as the data highlights that many migrants have in fact made Ireland their home.

Bord na Mona reports €23 million profit

Fri, Jul 23, 2010

Bord na Móna bucked the trend of loss-making businesses when it announced its annual results this week, showing operating profits of €23 million compared to €23.8 million for 2009. The company, which employs some 2,000 staff nationwide and which closed its peat burning plant in Bellacorick in favour of wind energy development in recent years has now highlighted the development in Belmullet of the biggest onshore windfarm in Ireland as one of the highlights of its ongoing expansion plans.

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