Amgen, the U.S. pharmaceutical giant is planning to create 100 new jobs in a €150m expansion program at its plant in Dun Laoghaire in Co Dublin. It is believed that an additional 350 jobs are expected to be created during the new construction phase. The expansion includes the construction of an extension, a new...
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A bright young lad from Co Meath has become the first Irish person to be accepted into the prestigious Vienna Boys’ Choir. Eleven-year old Evan Pyne from Dunboyne was invited to join the choral group two months ago after a week-long audition in Austria’s capital Evan already has a string of awards and scholarships...
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The novelist John Boyne has been inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards hall of fame, which the author has described as a “great honor”. Last night the author of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ was inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame. Or whose company you might keep, Mr. Boyne now...
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One hundred years ago a pioneering aviator by the name of Denys Corbett Wilson made history when he successfully completed the first flight between the UK and Ireland. This month one hundred years ago Mr Corbett Wilson began his journey from a field in Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, and just over an hour and a half...
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The story of how Irish coffee was invented is well known, but how did a drink that started in a transit lounge at Foynes airport get to be such a worldwide hit? Well that’s down to one man, Stanton Delaplane, a syndicated newspaper columnist whose plane developed engine trouble in 1951. Foynes was an...
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One of my best experiences in Ireland so far was a surprisingly ordinary picnic day out with my wife’s family to a 15th century castle in the middle of Co. Claire. Craggaunowen Castle was built by John MacSioda MacNamara in 1550 a descendant of Sioda MacNamara who built Knappogue Castle in 1467. It is...
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Famous for her beauty, music and voice, Fionnuala Gill, from Dublin is a founding member of internationally acclaimed and former member of Irish choral group Anúna and was featured lead-vocalist with phenomenally successful Riverdance. A lead singer with Eurovision-winning Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden (Rolf Løvland & Fionnuala Sherry) for a number of years, Fionnuala...
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Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny has says he refuses to take sides in the “fornication” storm started by his party and constituency colleague. Ireland’s Fine Gael member from Co. Mayo TD Michelle Mulherin raised awareness of the debate last week when she described fornication, or consensual sex between an unmarried couple, as the biggest...
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More than 200 primary schools which were due to lose a teacher next September have been able to reinstitute those same teachers. A total of 367 schools appealed the cut by the Primary Staffing Appeals Board. Worries about funding were put to rest when Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn said it will...
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