Social Media Job Search

On Thursday 13th Dec from 1.30pm to 2.30pm The Business Information Centre in the Central Library, in the Ilac Center will host a FREE workshop on Using Social Media to Find a Job.  The Workshop will be facilitated by Greg Fry.  Greg Fry runs a business called CareersCoach.ie and also is a lecturer at the Digital Marketing […]

2013 City Budget

Approval of 2013 Dublin City Council Estimates is premature and should be deferred until after December 6th– Statement from Cllr Mary Fitzpatrick, Fianna Fail Group Leader, Dublin City Council.   “Dublin City Councillors will meet tomorrow Monday 26th November 2012 to consider and approve the 2013 City Council Budget.  The Fianna Fail group believes that […]

Civil Defence Officer

Dublin City Council is inviting applications from suitably qualified individuals for Assistant Civil Defence Officer.  The deadline for applications is Thursday 25th October 2012, for more information please click here. 

Social Worker Required

Dublin City Council are inviting applications from qualified social workers, the deadline for applications is Thursday 25th of October 2012 for more details click here.

Cancel Metro North Levy

I have renewed my call to Dublin City Council to suspend the Metro North Development Contribution Scheme that compels property owners along the previously proposed Metro North route to pay €1000’s in additional levies for a project that is not going ahead. The scheme needs to be suspended because it is bad practice for Dublin […]

Small Business Loan Fund

There are some fundamental flaws with the Micro Enterprise Loan Fund that is part of the Governments job creation “initiatives”. They say it will make up to €25,000 available for small businesses through a Micro Enterprise Loan Fund.  While this sounds great and any initiative by the Government that might at last start to address the […]

Excessive Salary

I was really shocked and outraged to learn of the salary being awarded for the Head of Student Services at UCC.  In any “normal” circumstances a salary of almost €150,000 would be very generous but in the current economic circumstances it is excessive and obscene.   I have emailed the Ministers for Education, Finance and Public Expenditure & […]

Grangegorman Gets Green Light

It is not often I get to congratulate Labour and Fine Geal but as a member of the board of Grangegorman I welcome the Government’s action to correct their damaging decision of last year to cut capital funding for the Grangegorman development. When, in November 2011, the Government announced a cut of more than €700million […]

WANTED : Tall Ships Volunteers

The Tall Ships will be sailing into Dublin port next month and 1000s of visitors are expected to come into the city to see them.  The Tall Ships race organisers are looking for volunteers to help out with the event.  So if you are over 18 years old and are interested in getting involved you should […]