by Deirdre Clune | Oct 10, 2018 | Political News
Today I launched the a Manifesto for Women’s Health at the European Parliament. The Manifesto was created by the European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH). The event marked the beginning of the EIWH’s campaign Healthy Women—Healthy Europe, which will profile what...
by Deirdre Clune | Oct 9, 2018 | Political News
Businesses in Munster and especially, Cork got a big boost recently after Aer Lingus reinstated links to top international hub, Amsterdam. Tourism in Cork will also be boosted as Amsterdam provides a vital link to transatlantic routes for Cork travellers. I have been...
by Deirdre Clune | Oct 4, 2018 | Political News
CO2 emissions from new cars should be cut by 40% by 2030 as MEPs voted on proposals. In addition market uptake of electric and low-emission cars should accelerate as a result of these votes. This is good news for Ireland. In the draft law voted on yesterday, MEPs...
by Deirdre Clune | Oct 2, 2018 | Political News
A farm tyre bring-centre has been set up for Wexford, New Ross Mart on October 9th. However there were reported tailbacks of over 2km last weekend when the first one opened in Cavan. Farmers faced significant delays in bringing old tyres to the recycle point in Cavan...
by Deirdre Clune | Sep 25, 2018 | Political News
MEPs will gather in Brussels this week to discuss ways of improving the issue of late payments for firms. Managing late payments is a huge issue for many firms and many go out of businesses because of cash flow problems. It is crippling many businesses. Late payments...