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Pictured above is Sean Greally, Designer Group, M&ECA Vice President and ECA President with Joanne Cluxton, ECA Vice President Mercury Engineering Group HR Manager Joanne Cluxton has been nominated as Vice President of the Electrical Contractors Association. She...
Galway City, the cultural heart of Ireland and home to some of the biggest med tech business deals in Europe has a congestion problem. For over 20 years, plans for an outer ring road to bypass the congestion into the heart of the city have trundled through permissions...
The First Home Scheme (FHS) aims to provide individuals and couples with greater access to homes across Ireland, otherwise deemed unaffordable to them, writes CIF Executive of Housing, Planning and Development Áine McGinity. The FHS focuses on facilitating home...
When Tara Flynn’s parents started a family building business in the 1970s, you could say it set her on a predestined path in the industry. Though her successful place today as one of its leading voices is likely down more to her hard work and determination in what is...
The latest edition of Construction magazine offers a vision for building from the CIF leadership team. A positive outlook for the construction sector was one of the key findings from the recent CIF Construction Outlook study. A total of 303 companies shared their...
“I have to tell you - it’s very surprising how positive companies have been when they hear about what we’re trying to do,” says Derek Byrne, founder of Way 2 Work, and its general manager since the start of 2019. Byrne helps young people who have been in the care...
It’s the Olympics you haven’t heard about. And Dubliner Megan Yeates, formerly a logistics manager at Lidl and DHL, is the reigning gold medalist. The WorldSkills competition has been held since 1950, as a world championship of vocational skills. The last, in 2019,...
As we look back on the year that was, one thing is clear, 2021 will be a year to remember. From the shock of the pandemic’s arrival in 2020, this year got off to a truly traumatic start. There was much frustration and disappointment over the fact that any part of our...
Kirby Group Engineering has made a festive donation of €100,000 to be shared among three charities. Focus Ireland, which helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. has received €50,000. Women’s Aid, which works to end domestic violence against...
Co. Kildare’s John Craddock Ltd (JCL) has been honoured at the annual Sustainable Business Impact Awards. The accolade event, now in its second year, showcases best practice in sustainable development and social responsibility undertaken by companies of all sizes...
