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The Minister for Education & Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D. and his Northern Ireland counterpart, Minister John O’Dowd M.L.A will open a conference on the role of teacher educators in Dublin Castle today (Monday 18th Feb 2013)...

A county Monaghan firm has become the first passenger transport company in Britain and Ireland, and only the second in the world, to achieve the coveted new ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems standard. Matthews Coach Hire, based in Callenberg, Inniskeen, can...

Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has today announced the details of his Department's Philanthropy Initiative for 2013. In 2012, Minister Deenihan launched a Philanthropy Initiative to provide an incentive to arts organisations to proactively...

Following the meeting with 8 EU Ministers and Commissioner Borg in Brussels on Wednesday night, the EU Standing Committee on Food and Animal Health (SCOFAH) met today to agree the detail of a pan European testing programme. Testing under this programme...

The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, has officially opened Ireland’s first world-class indoor athletics arena at Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT). In a ceremony attended by legendary Irish athletes, Dr Ronnie Delaney, Senator Eamonn Coghlan, John Treacy...

Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD, will chair the first meeting of Europe’s Research Ministers under Ireland’s EU Presidency on Monday 18th February. The Council will focus on a number of important areas designed to increase...

The Minster for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, welcomed the outcome of today’s meeting of the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCOFCAH), which further discussed the ongoing issue of the...

The Irish Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., chaired the EU Council of Education Ministers in Brussels today, Friday 15th February 2013. This was the first of two Education Council meetings to be held under the Irish Presidency, the...

The two documents fulfil important commitments in Future Health, the strategic framework for health service reform which was launched last November. Speaking at the publication of the papers, the Minister said...

Minister for Trade and Development Joe Costello and Director General of the International Labour organisation...