The Guinness Enterprise Centre has lost out in its battle against Dublin City Council’s decision to slap a €280,000 planning contribution charge on its €10m expansion plan.

The tremendous response to the Team Limerick Clean Up is evidence of the importance that the city’s citizens attach to a clean environment. As Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) surveys show, our cities are more littered than our towns.

Irish Business Against Litter was pleased to read in your recent article (“Residents in litter ‘blackspot’ clean up their act”) that Farranree is reacting positively to its disappointing result in our most recent litter survey.

TO accelerate growth of trade and job creation in Baltimore and Dublin, the Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC) and Baltimore City’s Emerging Technology Centres have signed a deal to collaborate in attracting technology-based companies from their respective countries to open offices in the other’s business centres.