Sam McCauley Chemists relocates to bigger premises on High St in Kilkenny
Sam McCauley Chemists is to take over Sherwood’s Electrical store this summer. The pharmacy chain said it has invested heavily in the new expansion and it will bring the total number employed by the company in Kilkenny to 25. “We are delighted to be relocating to a bigger premises on High St,” said managing director Patrick McCormack. “We will be making an investment of over €500,000 in the new premises and increasing the number employed to 25. This is a huge vote of confidence in Kilkenny City and our many loyal customers.” The group said it now has 28 stores nationwide and an online store www.sammccauley.com with further new openings and…
Read MoreEMC and Vodafone launch industrial internet of things platform developed in Cork
Tech multinational EMC has developed an innovation platform from its Cork base specifically designed for industrial internet of things (IoT) development, in partnership with Vodafone Ireland. Involving an initial €2m investment and called Infinite, this is the first large-scale Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) approved industrial IoT innovation platform in Europe. The platform is spread across three data centres – those of EMC, Vodafone and data centre and cloud provider Cork Internet eXchange in Cork. IoT involves processes such as manufacturing to everyday objects, including household appliances and even clothing, containing sensors that are connected to the internet and generating data for analysis. Infinite encompasses all the significant technologies, domains and…
Read MoreValue of construction projects started down 20pc in Q1 but applications on the rise – index
The value of construction projects started in the first three months of this year has fallen by 20pc to €1.69bn compared with the first quarter of 2014, according to the Building Information Index, which is produced by a team of researchers at Building Information Ireland (BII). Danny O’Shea , managing director of BII, said five of the seven sectors measured by the index recorded a fall. “The residential sector saw the most significant drop, falling from €874m in the first quarter of 2014 to €600m in the first quarter of 2015. “Education also suffered a major decrease, falling by 68pc. By comparison, there was a significant increase of 54pc in the value…
Read MoreHigh growth foreign companies to create 185 new jobs in Dublin and Wexford
Five North American companies and one European-based high growth company are creating 185 new jobs in Dublin and Wexford in sectors including medical devices and business analytics. A database technology company founded in Massachusetts in US in 2010, NuoDB, is to open its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) development centre in Dublin and a new office in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It intends to hire 50 developers, engineers and tech support professionals in Dublin over the next three years. Cloud management software company Artisan Infrastructure, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas, is establishing its EMEA headquarters in Dublin, creating 30 new information technology jobs. With offices all over Europe and…
Read MoreSeventeenth Maxi Zoo store in Ireland opens in Kildare
Pet retailer Maxi Zoo has opened its seventeenth store in Ireland, in Newbridge Retail Park, Co Kildare, which will create 15 jobs. Maxi Zoo is part of the Fressnapf Group which is Europe’s largest pet retailer with over 1,295 stores across the region. The new 8,000 sq ft store in Newbridge is owned and operated by Cork couple Tony and Alice Cross. Maxi Zoo opened its first Irish store in Ballincollig, Co Cork in 2006 and plans to open a further 15 new stores across the country over the next five years, creating up to 150 new jobs. With all staff trained to be ‘pet experts’, Maxi Zoo invites people…
Read MoreIreland’s domestic economy to grow by 4.2pc in 2015 – ESRI
The ESRI said today that it is expecting Ireland’s gross national product (GNP) to grow by 4.2pc this year and by 3.6pc in 2016.
Read MoreÁine Brazil, Billy Lawless, Svante Pääbo and Phillip Smyth to be conferred with NUI Galway honorary doctorates
NUI Galway has today named the four recipients of its 2015 honorary degrees. The four, who will be conferred this Friday (12 June), are: Áine Brazil, vice chairman of Thornton Tomasetti, New York, USA; Billy Lawless, Chicago-based Galway-born businessman and vice-president of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Svante Pääbo, Swedish biologist and director at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany; and Phillip Smyth, director of the Shannon College of Hotel Management. NUI Galway president, Dr Jim Browne, said each has made an outstanding and distinctive contribution to the diverse fields of engineering, public life, genetic science and the international hospitality industry. Brazil will be…
Read MoreKevin Gaffney Won Sky Academy Arts Scholarship – Dublin Visual Artist
Visual artist Kevin Gaffney was last night named the Irish winner of the Sky Academy arts scholarship. The 28-year-old Dublin artist, who works in photography and film, will receive £30,000 (€38,000) towards the development of an artistic project and the cost of living for one year, along with mentoring from Sky and the arts industry. Gaffney’s work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally, including the Sapporo International Art Festival (Japan, 2014) and the Poetry Project at the Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin, 2013). For his Sky Academy arts scholarship project, he plans to create and exhibit a new body of work titled ‘Tectonic Plates of Conversion,’ exploring areas…
Read MoreIT Carlow graduate wins top three awards at Universal Design Grand Challenge
A product design graduate of Institute of Technology (IT) Carlow, Jack Gregan, has won the top three awards at the Universal Design Grand Challenge (UDGC) student awards for his design for a therapeutic aid that can be used in equine therapy for children with autism. Currently an intern with Carlow IT’s DesignCore design research centre, Gregan won the UDGC People’s Choice Award, the UDGC Judges’ Choice Award and the Enterprise Ireland Universal Design Commercialisation Award for his ‘Go Therapeutic’ horse riding aid. His project is an alternative to a saddle, ensuring the stability of the rider while enhancing all the benefits of equine therapy. The solution is proving to work…
Read MoreSustainability Gathering coming up in Dublin Castle focused on capital investment
The 2015 Sustainability Gathering is taking place on 24 June in Dublin Castle with the theme of ‘Capital working for sustainability’. The main aim of the event will be to facilitate the transactions that will steer capital towards investments that are both environmentally and socially sustainable, and make a healthy return. On 22 and 23 June, separate events will focus on the financing of Irish clean-tech start-ups and see the launch of Docklands 21, a partnership between the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, Dublin City Council and Green IFSC to ensure that at a business level Dublin’s Docklands are undertaking best-in-class resource efficiency measures. There will also be a number…
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