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Residents overruled as marina plan is approved Despite
strong objection from thousands of residents in a Co. Wicklow town a €300million
marina and harbour re-development has given the go-ahead by planners with
work expected to start within months and to take between four to five
years to complete.
Developed by Wicklow County Council and private sector partner the Sispar
Consortium the Greystones project will include over 340 apartments, shops,
a 230-berth marina, public plaza and boardwalk.
Planning authority An Bord Pleanala granted permission with 13 conditions
attached, which included the development of a traffic calming scheme during
construction work, beach nourishment provisions and the presence of on-site
archaeologists during excavation work.
Kerry campaign
Senior executives from Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland have
met to review the ?6million regional marketing campaign which has been
in full-swing this year in Britain, Europe and the United States and to
agree on the up-coming autumn plan to maximize the number of visitors
to the south-west.
A range of activities have been undertaken including radio promotions
highlighting events such as the Rose of Tralee festival, as well as holiday
and travel features in British publications.
Tourism Ireland’s Niall Gibbons said the trend is now towards shorter,
more frequent breaks which tend to favour easily accessible, urban destinations
and that has affected the balance of tourism growth to more rural parts
of Ireland.
Online degree
The Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) in Dublin has awarded the
world’s first online masters degrees to science graduates from 11
different countries, including two graduates from Britain and 16 from
the US, with others coming from countries across Europe and as far afield
as Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, India, Malaysia and Taiwan.
The study-from-home MSc in Pharmaceutical Medicine is a collaboration
between Hibernia and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and run in conjunction
with the RCSI and Harvard University, Boston, in the US, and is widely
seen as a unique e-learning programme which removes the main mobility
barrier in attracting leading figures in research and development to Ireland.
City of Derry Airport Inquiry
An inquiry is under way in the North of Ireland to establish why an airplane,
carrying 180 passengers on an inbound flight from Spain, sank into tarmac
on a runway at the City of Derry Airport.
The passengers left the aircraft and it was eventually able to move itself
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