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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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The business community turned out in great numbers to hear Leanne Storan, Head of Tax, EY Limerick, Seamus Coffey, Chairperson Irish Fiscal Advisory and Professor Stephen Kinsella at Limerick Chamber’s Autumn lunch event sponsored by EY and supported by our media partner the Limerick Post. The Autumn lunch looked at topical issues such as Budget

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Limerick Chamber has called for metropolitan area Public Representatives to vote in approval of the O’Connell Street Development plans and deliver the much needed investment into the City’s main street. “Limerick Business – across all sectors –  urgently need this investment in our urban centre and we call on Metropolitan Councillors to vote in approval

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Limerick Chamber has welcomed the sweeping changes announced by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris but has asked for the prioritising of getting more gardai back on the streets. The Chamber has been extremely vocal in lobbying Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan, through local public representatives, on the matter over recent months.  It has been particularly focused on

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Continued uncertainty around Brexit has highlighted the importance of capacity-building in the customs intermediary sector and the necessity to boost ‘in-house’ customs capacity amongst business that are regularly trading with the UK. Delays at customs can result in disruption to both business and customers. Taking steps now to train key staff on how to effectively

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Limerick Chamber CEO, Dee Ryan has issued a call on Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to deliver on his commitment to review the use of 16 Gardai in security duties at Limerick Courthouse on Mulgrave Street, which she says is a wasteful use of valuable Gardai. “Community Policing works. Our member companies across the City and

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