Cork Institute of Technology and IT Tralee are moving ahead with plans to apply for technological university (TU) status.

A small Irish college has been chosen to exclusively educate the hoteliers of tomorrow for the exotic tourist island where Prince William and Kate Middleton honeymooned last year.

Ireland should be targeting affluent Chinese holidaymakers, a move which could have significant potential for the tourism industry here.

When this country was making strenuous efforts to industrialise under the leadership of Seán Lemass, considerable emphasis was placed on the role that the Shannon area could play, as was highlighted during John F Kennedy’s famous visit in 1963.

HAD YOU approached Gerald Lawless, when he was a teenager in Galway, and said the word ‘Dubai’ he probably would have thought you were enquiring about some sort of purchase he had made.

A REVIEW of the legally binding agreements which set the wages for more than 200,000 workers has concluded that the current system should be maintained to protect the employment standards of vulnerable workers.

HOTELIER Liam Griffin believes the “government needs to act quickly and courageously to address the financial crisis facing the hotel industry”.

MORE than 35,000 foreign students in Ireland will inject €400 million into the economy this year, it emerged yesterday.

More than 35,000 foreign students in Ireland will inject 400m euro into the economy this year, it emerged today.

THE internationally-acclaimed Shannon College of Hotel Management (SCHM) is to transfer from the ownership of Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to become part of National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG).