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iConnect, Ireland’s Apple approved premium reseller has announced that it has acquired Galway company Screenway to roll out its Education arm in Ireland. The deal will see iConnect retain ten employees and create twenty new full-time Education Specialists positions expanding out of Galway and operating nationwide.

A majestic weekend of rallying came to an end on Sunday as Abdulaziz Al Kuwari and Killian Duffy claimed a very impressive third place finish on the 2014 Cyprus Rally. In what was a one-of-a-kind event, two sanctioned FIA rounds ran side by side with the ninth round of the ERC and the fifth round of the MERC both taking place on the same weekend.

Long-standing bans on Irish beef and sheep meat in six Gulf states are to be lifted by the Food Safety Committee of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Schools Websites – the Galway headquartered business has been brought into the limelight for job creation in a recession, through the TV3 competition ‘Every Job Counts’ where it featured on TV3 last week. This business specialises in developing website systems which are designed to meet the very specific needs of school principals, teachers, parents and pupils, as well as reducing time spent on administration and organisation of school management activities through their unique student management system. The idea originated when two entrepreneurial minds saw a niche in the market and in 2009 Schools Websites was founded.

It’s hard to imagine that people had the courage, or foolishness, to start up a business without a phone. For most of the 1970s, if you hadn’t an old fashioned phone already, you were out in the cold for a period of at least nine months to two years. The Industrial Development Authority was howling with rage saying that new industries were interested in coming to Ireland, but laughed when they were told “ That’s grand. But, we’re sorry. At the moment there are no phones...”

Bertie Ahern’s interview on his final day in Dáil Eireann typifies the man. He was gratuitously offensive to a member of the public with legitimate complaints when he sarcastically stated that some people would do anything to get on TV. The fact that she might have a point about his having more than a little responsibility for the current economic crises completely escaped him.

Based in New York, Nell Bryden is a formidable touring machine. She’s played opening slots with international acts like KT Tunstall and The Counting Crows, performed on the number one radio shows Pat Kenny on RTE radio and The Ian Dempsey breakfast show on Today FM.

THROUGHOUT THEIR careers, both musician/broadcaster Philip King and writer Joseph O’Connor have documented the development of Irish consciousness and sense of identity.

When the problems of Chad became a human rights issue, and the UN asked for Irish troops to help, the Government said yes.