Posts Tagged ‘cork’

Few people visiting Galway will fail to notice the impressive Webworks Galway building (pictured above) just of Eyre Square. The building is part of a huge development plan announced by the Irish government & Enterprise Ireland in May 2000. The plan originally encompassed the building of similar incubators in 10 towns & cities across Ireland [...]

A state of in-tolerance…

Posted: August 20, 2011 in opinion
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I travelled to Dublin yesterday for a number of clients meetings. It was while zooming down the N6 between Galway and Dublin, that I heard something that made me slow down and turn up the volume on the radio. Apparently the former Lord Mayor of Cork had called on the Irish government to ban Burqas [...]

The country’s second busiest hospital emergency department will be forced to close at night from July 11, the medical board of the hospital has warned. The above is the first line of an article in yesterdays edition of the Sunday Business Post. It’s shocking for more reasons than one. Let me draw you a time-line [...]