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Friday, 28 February 2020: Limerick Chamber has welcomed today’s decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for the Opera Site as a decisive moment for the future of the city and region. Having spoken in favour of the development at the An Bord Pleanála oral hearing last December, Dee Ryan CEO, Limerick Chamber

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Flexible working hours and conditions are key to staff retention. Chamber hears that company policies, not pay or perks are the biggest draw.  Limerick Chamber members heard this week that flexibility in working hours and practices is the number one reason for their employees to move to a competitor. The results of a survey conducted

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Leadership Development Programme kicks off with former Dell Technologies, Senior VP, Denis Kelly.   Only a handful of Executives in the world have served in Michael Dell’s leadership team, and Newcastlewest native Denis Kelly, enthralled the audience of 127 senior and future Limerick  leaders by  sharing insights into his incredible career, his personal leadership style

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Fasttrack the Limerick Northern Distributor Road (LNDR), develop a reliable bus and cycle network, put more gardai into community policing and establish a Minister for City Regions to ensure balanced regional development is achieved – key asks of Limerick Chamber in its ‘Mid West Business Priorities for General Election 2020’ manifesto. Chamber CEO, Dee Ryan

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Representatives of the Mid West and Western business community have met with the Taoiseach this week to highlight the importance of international connectivity via airports outside of the Capital, to the success of regional economic growth.  Presidents of Limerick, Ennis, Galway and Shannon Chambers together with the Limerick Chamber Chief Economist and CEO sat down

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Cross-city and cross-region collaboration must be dialled up if balanced regional development is to be delivered in Ireland, one of the largest annual business gatherings outside the capital has been told. The annual Limerick Chamber Presidents Dinner and Regional Business awards, attended by over 400 business people at the weekend, heard from outgoing chamber president

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Thank you to our Sponsors 2019

Limerick Chamber would like to thank all our sponsors for this year’s 2019 Regional Business Awards & President’s dinner, including our main sponsors AIB and LIT.   The event itself would not be possible without those who took the time to apply for this year’s Limerick Chamber Regional Business Awards, from the nominees to the

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The Limerick Chamber Regional Business Awards 2019, sponsored by LIT, will be hotly contested by 21 companies across 7 categories. The winners of the categories, as well as the 2019 Overall Business of the Year and the President’s Award, will be announced at the Limerick Chamber President’s Dinner, on Friday 15th November in the Limerick

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Limerick Chamber has today welcomed the announcement of a competitive route fund for Irish airports as a potential major breakthrough for balanced regional development.   Responding to the announcement, Dee Ryan, Limerick Chamber CEO said: “Limerick Chamber has been lobbying hard for specific interventions to support Shannon Airport fulfil its potential as a key driver of

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Read Summery    Intensified competition between Irish airports over passengers and airlines will have severe consequences for economic activity and jobs outside the Greater Dublin Area, a report by international economic consultants has warned. The report by Denmark’s Copenhagen Economics found that significant capacity expansion planned for Dublin Airport will make it very difficult for

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