Tagged: Brian Cowen TD & News
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Irish Government to dispose of controversial e-voting machines News
06.10.2010 The Government of Ireland said today that it is to dispose of the controversial e-voting machines that have been gathering dust for years. Speaking during Leaders’ questions...Categories: Green Computing, Green, Government, Financial, Digital Business, Digital 21, Communications -
Ireland to become China’s investment 'Gateway to Europe' News
28.09.2010 Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD said he believes Ireland can become the "gateway" for Chinese investment into Europe. He made his comment in the wake of meeting a high-level Chinese... -
Massive €486m technology campus for West Dublin News
21.09.2010 The Taoiseach Brian Cowen has launched the Grangegorman Development Project, which proposes to deploy a massive technology campus on the site of the former St Brendan’s Hospital...Categories: Research, Renewable Energy, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Education, Digital 21, Development -
270,000 new jobs predicted by 2016 – Taoiseach News
26.07.2010 Based on the €40bn investments announced by the Irish Government today, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland are targeting more than 270,000 direct and indirect jobs up to 2016.Categories: Research, R&D, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Government, Digital 21 -
Medical tech giant creates 200 customer service jobs News
20.07.2010 Global healthcare solutions provider Covidien has announced 200 new jobs at its €11m state-of-the-art contact centre in Cherrywood, which serves 16 European countries, as well... -
Govt pumps €359m into PRTLI 5 – largest investment in research News
16.07.2010 Today, the Government announced the largest investment in research in the State’s history with €359m going into PRTLI Cycle 5. The move will make Ireland Europe’s innovation... -
Taoiseach Brian Cowen now has a Facebook page News
15.07.2010 Brian Cowen TD is now on Facebook. The Taoiseach has done what many of his parliamentary colleagues have so far failed to do, he has set up his own Facebook page. -
Irish Government's MerrionStreet.ie goes live News
13.07.2010 The Government’s new information portal MerrionStreet.ie went live last night, carrying its first reports of the Taoiseach’s €500m Innovation Ireland Fund launched yesterday in... -
Cork to see 150 new call centre jobs News
16.04.2010 The Taoiseach Brian Cowen is to announce 150 Cork call centre jobs at VoxPro in Blackrock today. -
215,000 new jobs by 2020 if Ireland becomes a Global Innovation Hub News
11.03.2010 Nationwide 1Gbps broadband, the creation of a ‘European Accelerator' to attract the world’s most innovative start-ups and a sea change in structures and attitudes to start-ups... -
Irish Innovation Centre for start-ups to open in Silicon Valley News
12.03.2010 This Sunday, Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD will formally open a new innovation centre in San Jose, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley, which is the brainchild of the Irish... -
Ireland’s ICT industry welcomes appointment of Govt CIO News
15.10.2009 The IBEC group that represents the technology industry in Ireland said the appointment of a Government CIO is welcome but urged that the right individual is selected to take on...Categories: Government, CIO -
Let’s make Ireland a ‘European Silicon Valley’ - Taoiseach News
20.09.2009 The fact that Ireland is already the European headquarters for some of the world’s biggest technology companies and because of the talent and ingenuity of the Irish people,...Categories: Government, R&D -
Ireland needs its own Google or Nokia, says Taoiseach News
04.06.2009 “We want to create our own Googles and Microsofts or, as Finland has done, our own Nokia,” the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen TD, yesterday told a gathering of global and local...Categories: Business, Government -
Firms ‘shooting in the dark’ on IT return on investment – Intel CFO News
03.06.2009 Intel’s chief financial officer Stacy Smith said today that businesses everywhere need to be capable of demonstrating return on their IT investments, but until now have been...