Gordon Deegan

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Gordon Deegan

The number of staff earning more than €100,000 at University College Cork (UCC) last year rose by 26% to 644 on the back of national pay awards. Annual accounts for 2024 show that despite the university group’s staff costs rising by 8% to €326m, the college’s cost reduction plan Project Alpha helped turn around the college’s finances. The accounts show that the UCC group recorded a surplus of €6.77m in the 12 months to the end of September last, which followed a loss of €8.57m in the prior year.

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Gordon Deegan

The operator of a planned €1.5bn data campus for Ennis has claimed that the project is being put at risk due to "bureaucratic inertia”. An Bord Pleanala granted planning permission to Art Data Centres Ltd for the scheme in April 2024 comprising six data halls covering 145 acres or 1.3m sq ft on lands adjacent to Tulla Road on the eastern outskirts of Ennis near Junction 13 on the M18 motorway connecting Galway to Limerick.

6 days ago | extra.ie | Gordon Deegan

Clare County Council paid ‘higher than market value’ in an €8million spend on two separate sites, including ‘prime coastal land’ adjacent to the Cliffs of Moher, an audit has found. In her 20-page report of the council’s 2023 financial statements, local government auditor Joanne Greene disclosed that the €8million purchase of the two sites was ‘supported by independent valuations which were based on “special interest” to the council and therefore constituted paying a higher than market value’.

1 week ago | echolive.ie | Gordon Deegan

Dublin City Council has refused planning permission to Harry Crosbie’s plans for a 4-star 35-bedroom hotel and the 'Baby Vicar' venue at Hanover Quay in Dublin 2. When lodging the plans earlier this year, Mr Crosbie said that the 200-seater ‘Baby Vicar’ entertainment venue for Dublin’s docklands “will bring light and life to a dark place”.

1 week ago | sundayworld.com | Gordon Deegan

'SIGNIFICANT' | Eddie Carey (31) was appearing in connection to being charged with 24 burglaries at premises across Clare, Limerick and GalwayToday at 21:17Gardai have recommended more serious charges against a Limerick man as part of an overall Garda investigation into an estimated €1m in value in property that has been allegedly stolen or damaged in a spate of burglaries across Limerick, Clare and Galway.