A pharmaceutical company in Shannon, UCB Schwarz Pharma has announced today that it is to invest €7,000,000 in R+D. The company currently employs 215 people. This is the latest in a series of outstanding results for Irish science and engineering. My feeling is that we have really outperformed in this area of […]

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I am writing this more in hope than confidence, however, tomorrow, I believe that Limerick have a good underdogs chance for winning the All-Ireland.
I sat in the Hogan Stand this year to watch Limerick easily beat Clare and it made depressing watching. The most impressive forward of 2007 took us apart and I couldn’t […]

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So, Aer Lingus have decided to abandon the four flights per day to Heathrow, opting instead to house three planes in Belfast and open a new route from Belfast to Heathrow.
This is a disaster for regional development. The stands at Heathrow are like hen’s teeth. Nobody can get their hands on them and […]

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What an excellent sporting weekend that just was. Clare won their hurling match agains Galway. The temperature was raised during the week when Ger Loughnane gave a spicy interview to the Clare Champion newspaper calling for the Clare County Board Manager to step down and said that Player Power was the order of […]

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Antrim 2-15 Clare 3-21
Thankfully Clare make their way through the championship, once again via the back door. The Clare team is not too bad this year and I feel that they might be still in with some noise to make in the closing stages of the championship. They seem more settled and it […]

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Not realising fully what was happening with Tony Griffin, the Clare hurler, I was a little surprised yesterday evening to go to the conference dinner here in Halifax, Nova Scotia to see a poster about the Tony Griffin Foundation on the wall in the Student’s Union. Tony is a student here and his father […]

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