Dress Up and support Christmas Jumper Day for Focus Ireland
Embrace the festive spirit and make a difference this holiday season by participating in Christmas Jumper Day for Focus Ireland. This annual campaign encourages individuals, groups, and organisations to don their favourite Christmas jumpers and organize fun activities to raise funds for Focus Ireland’s crucial work in tackling homelessness. This year, the appeal is not…
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Interview: Maureen Kennelly Director of The Arts Council
Among the big ticket items announced in Leinster House as part of Budget 2024 was the news that funding of the Arts Council has reached €134 million. That’s serious money, up from an annual €75m in 2019. Why, when there are so many competing needs, are we spending so much money on the arts? Who…
Voice, Acting, Movement with LIR
The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin offers a number of courses for school leavers. There are two acting programmes, a Foundation Diploma in Acting and Theatre, and a Bachelor in Acting. Alongside this, there is a Bachelor in Stage Management and Technical Theatre. The Foundation Diploma is a 24-week-long programme…
Imagining a better way to a Net Zero Future with our Bord Gáis Energy Academy
At Bord Gáis Energy we are on a journey to transform Ireland’s energy landscape. We are determined to lead the way. How? By investing in upstream opportunities to enable the transition of Ireland’s energy system to net zero. Over the last number of years, we have switched our focus from being a classic utility supplier…
Triumph of Collaboration at Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim ETB
The Further Education and Training Sector Glitters at WorldSkills Ireland in Sep 2023 The Further Education and Training (FET) Sector in Ireland proudly showcased our programmes at the annual WorldSkills Ireland event held in RDS Dublin. This year’s event was significant for the FET Sector as it marked the remarkable collective collaboration of the 16 Education…
Revised HEAR scheme aims to reach more disadvantaged groups
The Higher Education Access Route (HEAR) has completed a review of its effectiveness in targeting those groups who, historically, have not accessed higher education due to socioeconomic barriers and will launch a revised version of the scheme in 2025. Initially rolled out in 2008, HEAR was established in recognition of the obstacles that students from…
DCU researchers reveal commuter clean air app
A new app in development at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University could offer pedestrians and cyclists a 17.87 per cent reduction in pollution exposure, initial tests have shown. The team at DCU used data analysis; refining and supplementing the publicly available Google Air Quality dataset for Dublin; to…
New profile of students with a disability in higher education
The Higher Education Authority (HEA) has launched the first profile of students with a disability in higher education in Ireland. This profile compiles data from the last three academic years. This report provides a first glance at the profile of students who report a disability in Irish higher education institutions. Understanding the profile of students…
Mother and daughter pen dual language children’s book
Mother and daughter duo, Ånne Hoey and Leah Egan have been telling stories for over 50 years combined. School teacher and storyteller Ånne has over 40 years of working with children as a primary school teacher. Leah is an award-winning actor, director, narrator and playwright with over a decade of experience in the audiobook, theatre…
UL to participate in a unique new large-scale Dutch-Irish offshore renewables project
University of Limerickis one of the stakeholders in the Dutch-Irish research project HybridLabs, to help accelerate the deployment of offshore renewable technologies for both electricity and hydrogen production. It comes on foot of the declaration by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that the Shannon Estuary can become the ‘green digital powerhouse for the country’. A unique…
Hubs offering electric cars, e-bikes and e-cargo bikes to test potential of shared e-mobility to decarbonise transport
Atlantic Technological University together with Trinity College Dublin, ESB and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, will lead a €1.35m shared electric mobility project. This project will deliver four shared electric mobility hubs in Dublin, Galway, Sligo and Donegal with each hub providing charging infrastructure, electric cars, ebikes and ecargo bikes for shared use. The project will assess community…
Fund a publicly-run Early Years and School Age Care system by 2029 – Early Childhood Ireland
Early Childhood Ireland (ECI) is calling for children to be at the heart of Early Years and School Age Care in Ireland. ECI says that a large body of international evidence has established that high-quality care experiences for children provide long-lasting benefits for them, their families, and their communities in their 2024 budget submission document….