Declan Kelly’s international public relations firm Teneo has bought the Co Clare- based Bridge PR — whose accounts include the Shannon Airport-and-heritage-owner Shannon Group, Limerick local authorities, and the Bon Secours private hospital in Cork.

Plans for a €35m 'floating' data centre in Limerick's docklands area are set to proceed after opponents withdrew objections to planning approval for the project.

A PROFILE site with 140m frontage to Limerick City’s Dock Road, and in an area earmarked as an economic development hub with docklands focus has been put to market for the Shannon Foynes Port Company.

A revolutionary €35m floating data centre is set to be moored on the banks of the River Shannon, in a move which could create 124 jobs.

A stalled gas supply project proposed for the south-west is now back on track over energy concerns arising from Brexit.

A tragedy similar to the deaths of a family of five in Buncrana last March could happen at Foynes pier in the Shannon estuary if the pier remains in its current state and is not regularly cleaned, a senior member of the port town’s search and rescue service warned.

A number of local bodies have joined forces to promote six deepwater marine investment opportunities along the Shannon Estuary.

Irish Cement has launched a High Court challenge against an order allowing the compulsory purchase of its lands by the harbour at Foynes, Co Limerick.

The recent Government decision to ban smoky coal yesterday yielded a 200-jobs industry for the port of Foynes.

A €50m plan for Foynes port, announced by Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe yesterday, will enable a new era of super-tankers to berth there and turn the Shannon Estuary into a world shipping hub.

A large portion of the Shannon estuary is to be reclaimed as part of a €38m expansion of port facilities.

A Limerick company receiving shipments from West Africa has increased its safety measures in a bid to combat ebola.

The trustees of Coillte’s pension plan have staked a claim to €20m worth of state-owned forestry following a secret settlement to their High Court dispute.

Artistic endeavour is reaching such heights in Limerick that planning permission has been sought to make way for one tall event.

Met Éireann is expected to issue a red alert as gale force winds of up to 130km/h, high tides, rain, sleet, hail, and thunder hit the country this weekend.

The elderly mother of former Fine Gael TD Michael Finucane had to be rescued from her flooded home in Foynes, Co Limerick, yesterday morning.

A plan for the Shannon Estuary was launched yesterday, identifying key strategic locations to help further advance the development of the waterway for maritime-based industry and tourism.

As one plan to transform Limerick City got its baptism yesterday, another framework with a vision for the Shannon Estuary gave birth to its first big investment at the port of Foynes.

A €12m development of Foynes Port, announced yesterday, will have to be put on hold for more than two years while the port authority awaits the necessary foreshore licence from a government department.

A small plot of strategic land in Foynes port which sold for about €13m at the height of the Celtic Tiger is now being sold off for less than €2m.

The Shannon Foynes Port Company reported a 168% increase in pre-tax profits to €2.96m in 2011 from €1.1m a year earlier, boosted by a once-off €1m property sale.

The chief executive of a semi-state company yesterday claimed “a €1 billion investment that will provide 800 jobs is being held up by bureaucracy”.

THE first-ever “masterplan” to develop one of the country’s busiest ports was outlined yesterday.

LOCAL authorities in the mid-west are ‘aflutter’ over state plans to designate the entire lower Shannon estuary a special protected area for birds such as the black-tailed godwit and redshank.

SHANNON Foynes Port Company – which manages Foynes and Limerick ports – turned a small profit for 2009.

SHANNON Foynes Port Company (SFPC) yesterday unveiled a €20 million plan to develop docks facilities to facilitate Ireland’s multi-billion euro investment in renewable energy over the next 20 years.

FINE Gael has called on the Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to make a public statement about a suspect land deal after obtaining a memo under Freedom of Information which shows the minister discussed the matter in 2008.

A 4,000-tonne shipment of much-needed salt has arrived for delivery to Limerick Port overnight.

SHANNON Foynes Port Company, which runs Limerick docks and shipping on the Shannon Estuary, has been accused of insulting the memory of generations of the city’s dockers with a €1,000 cheque towards a commemorative monument.

A FORMER mayor of Limerick has been nominated by the Transport Minister Noel Dempsey to the board of Shannon Foynes Port Company.

A TOP Limerick law firm has settled a huge legal bill with a semi-state company.

THE troubled Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC), which will have to pay out hundreds of thousands of euro in damages and costs arising from a recent High Court settlement now faces another court battle.

TRANSPORT minister Noel Dempsey has met with members of the financially troubled Shannon Foynes Port Company as details of huge compensation settlements have emerged.

AN IMPORTANT report pointing the way forward for Limerick docks will be published later this month.

A STATE company that manages shipping and ports in the Shannon Estuary is allegedly refusing to pay a €1 million-plus legal bill submitted by a Limerick law firm for the handling of an internal dispute.

AFTER a court case which is reputed to have cost Shannon Foynes Port Company several million euro to settle, the body has suffered another financial blow with the loss of a shipping customer at Foynes.

SHANNON Foynes Port Company (SFPC) are at an advanced stage in talks with their suspended chief executive Brian Byrne on a settlement deal, it emerged last night.

THE Shannon Estuary is on the threshold of a new industrial dawn which promises to transform the entire industrial aspect of the Mid-West and Kerry.

A STRICKEN tanker was limping from the west coast into the Shannon estuary early today.

FIANNA Fáil elected members have appealed to a colleague to remain as their leader within Limerick County Council after a “stormy” emergency meeting.

A MAJOR split among the 12 Fianna Fáil members on Limerick County Council led to the snap resignation at the weekend of the group leader, Cllr Kevin Sheahan.

THE working group set up by the troubled Shannon Foynes Port Company (SPFC) has commenced its deliberations on the future of the 44-acre docklands and a further 36 acres of adjoining property.

AN executive received full pay for up to five years from the troubled State-owned Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC) without having to turn up for work.