EuropeanIrish.com News Stories

More Irish people head to Europe, than to UK or USA

Cork Ireland, January 23rd 2008

A recent report by the CSO indicates that between the years 2006 and 2007, at least 25% of all Irish Emigrants settled in Continental Europe (CSO Population/ Migration Report December 07).
This is greater than those travelling to the UK 23.9%, and more than 3 times greater than the percentage travelling to the USA, both the traditional destinations for Irish emigrants.
It is estimated that approximately 300,000 Irish people have made their homes across Europe, and with 3.5 million trips by Irish residents to the Continent in 2006, Ireland’s relationship with her European neighbours has deepened considerably.
The Irish emigrants have settled in their new countries, raised families, and have sown the roots of future generations. As in the past, they have brought with them the wealth of culture that is unique to the Irish, a tradition long since enjoyed in both England and the States. A testament to this is the increasing number of Irish Clubs and Societies that have grown up across Europe, catering for both the Irish and native Europeans all of whom have a shared love of Irish Culture, Sport and Music.
For those interested in the Irish Scene across Europe, there is one unique central point – EuropeanIrish.com.
The brainchild of well travelled Irishman, Siasy Collins, this website is the focal point for all the information one needs to enjoy the Irish scene across Europe.
For the past 5 years the site has been managed on a part-time basis. Since May 2007, however, the emphasis has been on upgrading the existing site, to provide Irish in Europe with the opportunity to connect with other Irish in Europe, and with similar interests.
Siasy Collins, Editor & Publisher, EuropeanIrish, having been based in Europe himself, and involved in the local Irish scene there, explained that Irish people in Europe - want to find where to watch the All-Ireland or Heineken Cup, and where to find Irish Dancing Schools, Bands, Festivals, Irish Sports & Social Clubs, The Irish Embassy, and a choice of more than 2200 Irish Pubs across the Continent, when any local Irish Entertainment or Sport Events are on, and European Irish News.
“The new look Europeanirish.com has a lot of new benefits for visitors. The website is easy to use & navigate. You can build your profile and meet others through M I N E, which is My Irish Network in Europe. You can also chat with others, create a personal story and add events, items or news”, Siasy added.
Irish in Europe can always feel close to home, with the short and lower cost flights, and now through this website one can tune-in live online to over 50 Irish Radio stations, and download free music, supplied by Irish bands based at home and in Europe.

With thousands visiting the website daily, EuropeanIrish.com has something added for everybody, whether you’re an Irish person living in Europe or planning travel to Europe, or whether you’re from Continental Europe, enjoying Irish music, culture, sports or pubs.
Do you know any Irish person in Europe? Let them know today.
Are you planning a trip there for a vacation, on business, to study or to live?
The Next step is simple – just click on www.EuropeanIrish.com, browse the site, stay a while and enjoy it.
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Wouldn’t it be great to hear more about top Irish sports stars who are competing for Ireland all across the Continent.

EuropeanIrish.com will feature any sport and all age groups too, if you are Irish and competing in Europe – you are just as important as the Irish Senior soccer team or Munster Rugby, or the Olympic Athletes.EuropeanIrish.com wants to hear from you all - simply visit http://www.europeanirish.com/ News and add the News story.

or maybe you are based in Europe and run a club or a member of one which features a number of irish players, - if you have a news story add it.The Irish in Europe would love to read about it.

Boxing: Events in the first 6 months with Irish Boxers in Europe – Italy, France, Greece, Russia

February

24th  to 2nd March         Olympic Qualifier               Italy Pescara

April

6th-13th           Olympic Qualifier                                  Greece

June

European Union Championships Poland

There will be plenty more European Boxing events with Irish Boxiers  this year - we will add them to the events as they arrive.

 - Find all Irish Sports associations including IABA (Boxing)  at:
http://www.europeanirish.com/sports_association.php

2008 Athletics events across the Continent with Irish participation have been added today.

The Brand new website is going live his week.

we are currently tranfering the data from the existing site to the new one.

There are many  athletics events this year, chances than no matter what part of Europe you are based - Irish athletes will be competing nearby sometime this year.
These include events in Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and Belgium.
You can even start planning for 2009, with events in Russia, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia, Finland, Germany and Ireland all added already.

currently can be seen at

http://www.europeanirish.com/new/events.php

The first ever survey about Irish people in Europe is being conducted.

If You are Irish and are based in or moving to Continental Europe -

This short survey is for you!

Please forward this email to every Irish person you know living in Europe. 
It is really important for the Irish in Europe.
Please answer just a few short questions in 90 seconds or less Click the Link and answer the questions, thanks.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=c_2bbUKK6N36zUdjY5Fx1FKA_3d_3d

What are the best and hardest things about living in Europe ?
Why might you stay, why might you return?

This survey is specifically about you - Irish people living in Continental Europe.

If you know of any Irish person living anywhere in Continental Europe , please send this survey to him or her today.
If you know many Irish People living in Europe, please send this to them all. This very important survey about you and for you,  and is finishing this week. If you are Irish in Europe - now you can get your say. Click Here to take survey - Have You taken the survey yet? 

Thanks in Advance
Siasy Collins

EP News

Plenary Session ( Brussels )

28-29 November 2007

How to combine social security for employees and flexibility for employers?

On Wednesday, the European Parliament will vote on a report by Danish MEP Ole Christensen which comments on the European Commission’s recent Communication on ‘More and better jobs through flexibility and security’.  On behalf of the Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee, Mr Christensen’s report highlights the need for a well-educated and adaptable workforce in the EU. The report agrees that ‘flexibility can be in the interests of the employee as well as the employer’, but it emphasises that the policy of ‘flexicurity’ (a combination of labour market flexibility and social security for the employee) ’should be based on common values that underpin the European Social Model’.  MEPs call on EU Heads of State and Government at the next summit meeting of the European Council (December 2007) to “adopt a balanced set of common principles of flexicurity”, which would include “core rights for all workers regardless of their employment status”, adaptable but reliable contracts coupled with action against abusive labour practices, measures to reconcile work and private life, gender equality and equal opportunities.

Irish MEPs on this issue: Marian Harkin ( Ind. - North West ); Kathy Sinnott (Ind. - South); Mary Lou McDonald (SF - Dublin ); Proinsias De Rossa (Labour - Dublin ) 

Quality of tourism in the EU

Italian MEP Paolo Costa has drafted a report on behalf of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism, which looks at tourism in the EU and the drawbacks associated with EU Member States interpreting the classification of accommodation for example (number of stars, etc.) differently.  The report argues that this and other difficulties have hampered growth in tourism across the EU.  MEPs claim that an EU-wide classification should be introduced with a standard EC quality mark.  The importance of accessibility for all is emphasised in the report, not only for accommodation, but also for museums, restaurants, etc.  Procedures relating to the issuing of visas to non-EU tourists are also dealt with in the report, although the recommendations focus primarily on the Schengen Member States. 

Irish MEPs on this issue: Liam Aylward (FF - East); Jim Higgins (FG - North West ); Kathy Sinnott (Ind. - South);

The EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights

This week’s Plenary Session in Brussels will begin on Wednesday with a debate about the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, to which the European Parliament has been asked to give its approval.  This Charter sets out the rights to which EU citizens are entitled and aims to ensure that in all of its activities, the EU institutions respect those rights.  The Charter will also apply in the EU’s Member States when EU law is being implemented.  Jo Leinen MEP, Chairperson of the Parliament’s Constitutional Affairs Committee will recommend on Wednesday that the Parliament approves the Charter. 

Irish MEPs on this issue: Proinsias De Rossa (Labour - Dublin ); Kathy Sinnott (Ind. - South); Seán Ó Neachtain (FF - North West ); Marian Harkin ( Ind. - North West );

In addition:

The Future of Europe

Brian Crowley (FF - South), Mary Lou McDonald (SF - Dublin ); Proinsias De Rossa (Labour - Dublin ) and Gay Mitchell (FG - Dublin ) will participate in the debate on the Future of Europe with the Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.  Marian Harkin ( Ind. - North West ) will also ask the Council of the EU about a consolidated text (one easy-to-read text) for the new Treaty.

Economic Partnership Agreements with the 78 ACP countries

Eoin Ryan (FF - Dublin) and Gay Mitchell (FG - Dublin) will speak during the discussion which will follow the European Commission’s statement on progress relating to the new Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated with 78 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.  The current agreements are due to expire at the end of this year.

Agricultural development and food security in Africa

Gay Mitchell (FG - Dublin ) and Kathy Sinnott ( Ind. - South) will participate in the debate on the European Parliament’s resolution on advancing African agriculture.

Railways

Jim Higgins (FG - North West ), Kathy Sinnott (Ind. - South) and Bairbre De Brún (SF - Northern Ireland ) will speak during the debate on three reports dealing with the railway network in the EU.  The measures are aimed at revitalising the network by removing the obstacles to the free circulation of trains throughout the EU.

Court of Auditors

Mairéad McGuinness (FG - East) and Gay Mitchell (FG - Dublin ) will speak following the presentation of the Court of Auditors’ Annual Report for 2006.

Humanitarian Aid

Kathy Sinnott ( Ind. - South) and Gay Mitchell (FG - Dublin ) spoke during the debate on humanitarian aid which took place in Strasbourg earlier this month.  MEPs will vote on a resolution on this issue on Thursday.

Trade and Climate Change

Kathy Sinnott ( Ind. - South) and Bairbre De Brún (SF - Northern Ireland ) will participate in the debate on the role of trade policy in climate change.

Individual MEPs:

·         Avril Doyle (FG - East) will deliver a speech to the European Landowners Organisation on the links between climate change and biodiversity; she will also participate in a meeting of the Parliament’s working group on Islam.

·         Kathy Sinnott ( Ind. - South) will speak about the following issues which will be on the Agenda of this week’s Plenary Session - GM food and feed; medicinal products for human use; residue levels of pesticides in food or feed; export and import of dangerous chemicals.

·         Mairéad McGuinness (FG - East) will participate in the Agriculture Committee’s hearing on the CAP Health Check on Tuesday.

·         Mary Lou McDonald (SF - Dublin ) will participate in the debate on the forthcoming constitutional referendum in Venezuela .

Catch the concerts this week and over the Christmas period of these great artists.
Download their tracks for free and access their websites at:
http://www.europeanirish.com/Radio/free_online_cd.htm

Blue Dew Netherlands (in compilations EuropeanIrish Spring 2006, and Ceol3)
30 november : Theater De Tobbe, Voorburg * with theatre program “The Long Journey Home”
8 december : Theater De Kappen, Haaksbergen * with theatre program “The Long Journey Home”
Noel Shannon Netherlands (Long Way Home - in Compliation European Irish Ceol1)
Nbvember:
29 De doctor Wageningen  22.00
30 O Shea’s Eindhoven  23.00
December:
1 O Shea’s Eindhoven  23.00
7 Finnegans Irish Pub Apeldoorn  22.00
8 finnegans  22.00
9 Bierreclamemuseum Breda  17.00
14 Sally O Briens Zwolle  22.00
18 P.W. Jannssen Verpleeghuis  15.00  Deventer, Kerstmarkt  
20 Mulligans Amsterdam  21.30
21 O’Shea’s Rotterdam  22.00  O’Shea’s website  
22 O Shea’s Eindhoven  22.00
23 Sally O Briens Zwolle  17.00 - 20.00  
25 *****Christmas Day******    “Café ‘t Hart van”…  vanaf 22.00  Marktstraat 88C Musselkanaal  
26 Tweede Kerstdag   “Paddy’s”   Balkbrug  22.00  Paddy`s Pub Hoogeveenseweg 2  7707 CH Balkbrug.
Blackwater France ( Gone to Hilo -  on Ceol3 )
  29/11/2007 : Concert à St Etienne (42) Dirty Old Town
  30/11/2007 : Concert à Bourg en Bresse (01)  Galway   
  01/12/2007 : Concert à Salaise-sur-Sanne (38)
  07/12/2007 : Concert à Port-Lesney (39)  L’Edgar
  08/12/2007 : Concert à Maiche (25)  Kuesako

Midnight Court Germany (Welcome Paddy Home - on EuropeanIrish Ceol5)
30-Nov Germany 20.00 Drensteinfurt - Bürgerhaus Alte Post
2-Dec Germany 20.00 Iserlohn - JuZ
The Bottlewash Band Czech Republic ( One Dream - on Music Marquee)
1-Dec Sýpka Brno - pořádá Skotský pes
The Stouts Switzerland (Last of the Great Whales - on EuropoeanIrish Spring compilation)
15. Dezember 07 ANGIE Konzert auf dem 4-Waldstättersee
21. Dezember 07 Stadtkeller Luzern
Will o the Wisp Italy ( Working Men - on EuropeanIrish Spring2006)
Italy DECEMBER
16  live concert ore 16.00 - Piazza Risorgimento-Marina di Grosseto (GR)
21 Concerto per il CAI - Teatro Comunale - tba - Merano - BZ
Red Shamrock - Switzerland ( The Sailor - on Music 8 compilation)
2. Dezember 2007, Sonntag / Stubete Pöstli, Aeugstertal ZH

The Shanes Germany ( Hands of Fate - from Ceol 1)

15 Dec Wurzgurg - Pleicher Hof - at Balkan Banja Party
22-Dec Rüdesheim - Hajos

Listen to European Irish Music :

http://www.europeanirish.com/Radio/

Sections A and B of the European Qualifying tour were played in Engand, france, Italy and Germany in September.

The 2nd Stage of the Qualifying took place in November 7-10th in Spain.

Irish players who made the 2nd stage Qualifying School were:
Stephen Browne, Mark Campbell, Noel Fox, Gary David Cullen, David Higgins, Micheal mcDermott, Michael mcGeady, Alan Murray, Peter O’Keeffe, Gary Robinson, Simon Thornton, Philip Walton.
Players from Northern Ireland include:
Chris Devlin, Michael Hoey, Richard Kilpatrick, Gareth Maybin, Damian Mooney.

FINAL QUALIFYING STAGE

November 15-20, 2007

San Roque Club, Old Course, Cadiz
San Roque Club, New Course, Cadiz
http://www.sanroqueclub.com/
Directions to San Roque

Qualifying to play in the EUropean PGA tour is the goal of Irishmen - this week in Pinta Course, Pestana, Portugal, 19-22 Nov.

Which Irish players made it through tot he Final Qualifiers?

Chris de Burgh will be doing a limited number of shows in 2008,
initially in Eastern and Western Europe.

Details to be announced soon!

http://europeanirish.com/Music/irishbandsontour.html

Maastricht Gaels, supported by the ECB, will host a foundation level football coaching course with two coach tutors from Dublin on Saturday, November 24th, between 10:00 & 17:30.

The couse is targeted at those who would like to introduce those interested in bringing gaelic football into schools etc. The principal objective is to qualify coaches to teach 8-12 y.o’s.

Both coaches are qualified tutors.
Damian Byrne is a former Dublin hurling goalkeeper and one of the first full-time coaches in the GAA. He was recently appointed Hurling Development Manager for Dublin and is currently a senior county team selector.
Ken Fitzgerald is full-time coach with a leading Dublin club and coach of a third level (DLIADT) college football team.

The course will be broken into a theory session in the morning and a practical skills session in the afternoon. A light lunch (soup/sandwiches) will be available. Copies of the slides etc will be made available. Participants should wear a tracksuit and bring football boots.

Please let Tony Bass (Secretary ECB) know as soon as possible if your club has anyone interested in attending.
Or indeed if you wish to introduce Gaelic Football or Hurling to a new area in Europe. Contact Tony at maastricht GAA club - details here:

http://www.europeanirish.com/Sport/GAA/gaaclubs.html

Mike Catt brushed off any post-World Cup controversy to make his London Irish comeback in a one-sided Heineken Cup win over Treviso.
www.rugby.ie

London Irish 42 Treviso 9

Heineken Cup - European Rugby - began this weekend, with some of the biggest matches in Rugby in Europe since the World Cup Finals in September and OCtober

Fri 9th Nov 07 20:00 P2 Ulster 14 - 32 Gloucester Rugby Ravenhill
Sat 10th Nov 07 13:30 P6 Leinster 22 - 9 Leicester Tigers RDS, Dublin
Sat 10th Nov 07 15:00 P1 London Irish 42 - 9 Benetton Treviso Madejski Stadium
Sat 10th Nov 07 17:30 P5 London Wasps 24 - 23 Munster Ricoh Arena

http://www.irishrugby.ie

http://www.europeanirish.com/Living/mep.htm

EP News Plenary Session ( Strasbourg ) 12-15 November 2007
continued…

Soil Protection

Two reports on soil protection will be discussed in a joint debate in the European Parliament on Monday evening. Spanish MEP Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines will present a report on the first EU directive on soil protection and Italian MEP Vittorio Prodi will emphasise the need for a strategy on soil protection to combat floods, landslides, desertification and climate change in the EU.

At the moment, provisions relating to the EU’s policy on soil are divided between laws on waste, pesticides and nature protection.  The new law would combine all provisions relating to soil.  It would include the requirement to establish national inventories of contaminated sites, which would have to be updated at least every five years.  MEPs point to the additional potential benefit of regional inventories.  The law will also require that Member States put together strategies to improve the condition of such sites and identify key priorities for work in this area.  MEPs in the Parliament’s Environment Committee point to the need to ensure synergy between existing EU laws on ground water, nitrates, sewage sludge, waste and other areas.

Irish MEPs on this issue: Mairéad McGuinness (FG - East); Kathy Sinnott (Ind. - South); Avril Doyle (FG - East)

Stocktaking on Social Reality in the EU

On Thursday morning, British MEP Elizabeth Lynne will present a report on behalf of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee which calls on EU Member States and on the European Commission to pursue “an ambitious objective of reducing poverty, especially among working people.”  In this report, MEPs point out that EU Member States should increase their efforts to reduce poverty and social exclusion. The report highlights the issues of disabled workers and those on the minimum wage, it calls for the prevention of exploitation of illegal workers, child poverty and points to the importance of education in tackling poverty and of the rehabilitation of prisoners.  MEPs also state that EU Member States should end asylum seekers’ dependence on benefits by allowing them to work.

16% of the EU’s workforce is disabled; 78 million EU citizens live in poverty and 8% of EU citizens are suffering from in-work poverty.  In general terms, the gap between rich and poor in the EU is increasing.

Irish MEPs on this issue: Proinsias De Rossa (Labour - Dublin ); Mary Lou McDonald (SF - Dublin ); Kathy Sinnott (Ind. - South); Marian Harkin ( Ind - North West );

EP News Plenary Session ( Strasbourg ) 12-15 November 2007

An EU strategy for the Bali conference on Climate Change

On Wednesday afternoon, Italian MEP Guido Sacconi will question the European Commission and the Council of the European Union on behalf of the Parliament’s Temporary Committee on Climate change about their strategies for the Bali Conference on Climate Change. This Conference (3-14 December) will mark the first step in building a post-2012 (post-Kyoto) framework to tackle climate change on a global level. During the debate which will follow, MEPs will call on the Commission and the Council to confirm Europe ’s leading role in climate protection.

On Thursday, MEPs will also vote on the European Parliament’s resolution for this Conference.  This resolution states that the long-term goals should centre on limiting average global temperature increase to below 2°C, which would mean that that by 2050, global greenhouse gases would have to be reduced by at least 50% compared to the 1990 level. The Parliament’s Committee on Climate Change insists that industrialised countries should commit themselves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30% by 2030 and by at least 80% by 2050 compared to the emission levels of 1990. To achieve these goals MEPs propose to install a global “cap and trade” system, to set binding targets for all industrialised counties and to include emerging economies through fair and proportionate targets.  The Parliament’s resolution also emphasises that an agreement should be reached by 2009 at the latest.  The European Parliament will be sending a delegation to the Bali Conference.

Irish MEPs on this issue: Avril Doyle (FG - East); Proinsias De Rossa (Labour - Dublin ); Kathy Sinnott ( Ind - South); Bairbre De Brún (SF - Northern Ireland )
 

5-11 Nov Italy FESTIVAL DE CINE LATINO AMERICANO DE TRIESTE Piazza Duca degli Abruzzi 3 30175 Trieste
7-11 Nov Italy  INTERNATIONAL SHORTFILMFESTIVAL via Dante 12/c 39100 Bolzano
7-11 Nov Italy  INVIDEO - EXHIBITION OF VIDEO ART AND CINEMA BEYOND viale Vittorio Veneto 2 20124 Milano
10-24 Nov Italy  FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA GIOVANE BELLINZONA – CAST
13-18 Nov Italy  INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW palazzo dello spagnuolo via Vergini, 19 80137 Naples
14-18 Nov Italy  I CASTELLI ANIMATI Corso Gramsci, 110 00045 Genzano
15-20 Nov Italy  INDEPENDENT FILM SHOW Via Calabritto 20 80122 Napoli
16-18 Nov Italy  FESTIVAL OF VIDEOTALES FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE TERRITORY Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto via Serralunga 27 13900 Biella
16-22 Nov Italy FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI Borgo Pinti 82/R 50121 Firenze
17-Nov Italy LO SGUARDO BIFRONTE - THE TWO-FACED GAZE ROME
17-25 Nov Italy ASIATICAFILMMEDIALE Via Garibaldi, 22 00153 Rome
19-24 Nov Italy INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Festival del Cortometraggio Via In Selci, 84/a 00184 Roma
21-26 Nov Italy  FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA DI SALERNO Casella Postale 137 84100 Salerno
23-24 Nov Italy  HK. RIMUSICAZIONI FESTIVAL 39100 Bolzano
30-Nov - 3 Dec Italy CORTO IMOLA FESTIVAL Via Verdi, 140026 Imola (BO)
1-3 Dec Italy  A CORTO DI CINEMA via S. Gemma Galgani 55100 Lucca
1-5 Dec Italy  PANAFRICANA - ROME PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8 00154 Rome
1-5 Dec Italy  POTENZA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Via dell’Ateneo 85100 Potenza
4-5 Dec Italy  COURMAYEUR- NOIR IN FESTIVAL VIA PANARO, 1700199 Rome
4-5 Dec Italy  MESSINA FILM FESTIVAL Piazza Immacolata di Marmo 4 98122 Messina

http://www.europeanirish.com/PubsShops/businesses.htm

06-09 Nov Trade Mission to Bucharest and Sofia Bucharest, Sofia, Bulgaria & Romania
13-16 Nov Productronica 2007 Munich, Germany
14-Nov   Insight into Telephonica Workshop, Spain
16-18 Nov Germany Enterprise Ireland Trade Events:  ComPaMed 2007 Duesseldorf
3/Oct- 3 Nov Russia Enterprise Ireland Trade Events:  Education Fair to Russia & Kazakhstan Moscow & Almaty
27-28 Nov Slovakia Enterprise Ireland Trade Events:  Trade Mission to Slovakia
22-26 Nov Machinery Technology Study Visit Northern Italy & Austria

Sofia & Bucharest Trade Mission
Enterprise Ireland will host an outward mission to Bucharest and Sofia. The mission will provide an excellent opportunity for lead generation and market development in Romania. Key buyers and partners will target relevant clients in software, environment, consultancy and electronics sub-supply

Productronica 2007 Munich
The Electronics Division will host a study visit to Productronica Trade Fair for clients operating in this sector. Productronica provides a comprehensive, consolidated and transparent look at the market for electronics production and the special technologies used in micro-manufacturing. It examines the industry’s entire value-added chain – from development to services – with unique depth and completeness. Participants will discover the latest innovations in electronics, Research & Development and production equipment. The visit will also provide an opportunity to network with potential new customers.

Machinery Technology Study Visit Northern Italy & Austria
Description:   Enterprise Ireland clients operating in the furniture machinery sector are invited on a study visit to Northern Europe. Participants will gain an understanding of current and future innovations in the sector via factory visits. This in turn will help them to develop business strategies which are based on new technologies enabling them to develop products which have higher added value and improve productivity. For further information please email contact below.
Details

http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/

With events already mentioned in previous articles about Louvain 400 - in Belgium and France, the Conference takes place in Italy, the Irish College in Rome:

26-29 Oct Louvian400 :  The Irish College, Rome Conference ‘Awakening Irish identities: the Ulster Earls in Baroque Europe’ http://www.louvain400.eu/

18-Oct to 21 Oct
Italy 

Pitch & Putt: European Teams Championship,
Chia, http://www.ppui.ie