New event series aims to promote better leadership across the media, politics, business and public sector

First event in the Better Leadership Forum will focus on media leadership –   European Ombudsman and former journalist Emily O’Reilly and author and broadcaster Emma Dabiri will share their views on leadership in the media during a free online event on Thursday, 15th April at 1pm.   The event, ‘Leadership in the Media: A…

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ELECTRIC COCKTAILS An innovative new crowd-fundraising campaign launched: Delicious and unique bottled cocktails, crafted by Electric Cork, delivered to you

With their doors shut for over a year now, Electric Bar and Restaurant, in the heart of Cork City, are raising money via a crowdfunding campaign to deliver delicious cocktails to you at home, until they can safely welcome you through their doors again.   The bar have a superb team of expert mixologists, Carl…

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Women of Vision- Denise Kenny of The Head Plan

    As part of our Women of vision series, we want to highlight the professional challenges and career aspirations of the women working here inIreland. Women in Ireland have a strong entrepreneurial spirit: the rate of female early stage entrepreneurs in Ireland is the 5th highest in Europe. The agility and resilience of women…

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Breakthrough announces funding support for two new projects researching drug resistance in a currently incurable blood cancer

Supporting and promoting research into this cancer is vital. It is incurable…and I would be excited to see targeted therapy in the future, and a less invasive way of changing this illness,” multiple myeloma patient Susan Brennan. As Multiple Myeloma Month draws to a close, Breakthrough Cancer Research, Ireland’s leading cancer research charity, has announced…

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Virgin Media Television’s Donate for Dementia campaign raises €1 million for The Alzheimer Society of Ireland

Virgin Media Television’s Donate for Dementia fundraising and awareness week has raised €1 million for The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.   All last week, Virgin Media Television aired special programming around the disease, which affects half a million Irish families, with one in 10 of those diagnosed being under the age of 65.   The…

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