West Cork’s cloud meeting experts celebrate success at Best in Biz Awards 2012

July 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Pictured celebrating the news are Mike Palmer, SVP Operations; David Gosling SVP, Sales; June McCarthy, SVP Marketing & Product; John Stone, EVP-M; Carol Hilliard, SVP Partner Channel; Kay O’Mahony, SVP Human Resources; Dominic Fairtlough, SVP Finance and Brendan Ryan SVP, Customer Services.
Pic: Denis Boyle

PGi, the global leader in cloud based virtual meetings who this year celebrated 10 years based in the West Cork Technology Park, have been named as a multiple award winner at the recent International Best in Biz Awards.

PGi’s newest and most innovative product yet, iMeet was awarded “Best New Service of the Year” and “Enterprise Service of the Year” [Read more...]

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Trash or Treasure? – Survey shows “upcycling” is new green trend

May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Catherine Costello, Macroom E, Michelle Green, SMILE Resource Exchange and Maeve Bowen, Macroom E, sporting upcycled bags made from recycled tyres and Tarpaulins at a recent SMILE Resource Exchange business networking event at Castlemartyr Resort, Cork.

REDUCING environmental impact has always been a challenge to small and medium sized companies (SMEs).

With new environmental legislation set to put pressure on these SMEs to move to products and processes with a lower environmental impact, this challenge will no doubt increase over the coming years.

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Munster’s first Renewable Energy Centre to open in Clon

April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Charlie Hayes and Kadi Deasy with Liam Deasy and David McCarthy of Clonakilty Renewable Energy Centre; Munster’s first Renewable Energy Centre which will officially open to the public this May Bank Holiday Weekend in The Curragh, Clonakilty.

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Apple expansion good news for West Cork

April 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

FINE Gael TD for Cork South West Noel Harrington has said  that Apple’s expansion of operations in Cork city with the creation of 500 new jobs over the next 18 months is good news for West Cork.

“I see this further investment in Cork by Apple, which will cater for its business in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, as solidifying its commitment to remaining in Ireland and a massive demonstration of confidence in the local workforce.

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PGi – celebrates 10 years in West Cork

March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Pictured celebrating PGI’s 10th year in business in Clonakilty were Kay Mahony, Mike Palmer, June McCarthy, Dominic Fairtlough, Carol Hilliard and John Stone. Pic: Denis Boyle

PGi (Premiere Global Services), the global leader in cloud-based communications is this year celebrating its tenth anniversary at its European centre of excellence in Clonakilty.

Headquartered in Atlanta (US) and in operation as an organisation since 1992, PGi established its European base at the West Cork Technology Park in 2002.

Since then the company has significantly grown at this site and now boasts 210 locally based employees.

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West Cork lingo goes high-tech with new app

February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Jerome Hughes, Foróige

WOULD you believe it? Two entrepreneurial teens from Leap Foróige Club have developed an iPhone App that translates Cork English into mainstream English.

Sixteen-year-olds Austin Keane and Liam Horgan are also members of Foróige’s democratically elected Reference Panel.

The idea sprang from hearing locals in West Cork using phrases that the lads had never heard outside of their native county.

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Major expansion for Eli Lilly in Kinsale

February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Richard Bruton made the announcement

PHARMACEUTICAL giant Eli Lilly have announced a new €330m investment in Kinsale that will create 200 full-time jobs and another 300 in the construction phase.

The announcement was made today at the Carlton Hotel, Kinsale by Jobs Minister Richard Bruton.

The company is to begin work immediately on the new manufacturing plant at its existing facility at Dunderrow near Kinsale.

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Public consultation on “Our Ocean Wealth”

February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Simon Coveney

MARINE Minister Simon Coveney has launched a public consultation process on how to harness the potential of Ireland’s vast marine resource to tap into a Trillion Euro global market for marine products and services (including seafood, tourism, shipping, oil and gas, renewable ocean energy and new applications for health, medicine and technology).

Launching the public consultation “Our Ocean Wealth”, Minister Coveney said that Ireland needs to change the way we think about the sea and look for new opportunities to harness the potential of our 220 million acre marine resource.

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Forest roads grant scheme to be opened immediately

January 26, 2012 By 1 Comment

MINISTER of State, Shane McEntee confirmed today the opening immediate of a new forest roads grant scheme.

The primary aim of the Forest Roads Scheme is to provide funding for the construction of management and harvesting roads and other infrastructural works to facilitate timber harvesting.

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First video streaming service launches in West Cork

January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

FILM Fans in West Cork can now sign up for Netflix, the first online film and TV rental service available in Ireland.

The service streams movies and TV shows direct and on demand over the internet removing the need to rent a physical copy from a video store.

The movies can be watched on internet enabled TVs, via games consoles or on computers, laptops, tablets and smart phones.

The Irish site currently has content available from the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV and as well as Disney, Paramount, and Twentieth Century Fox.

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