politcal news from Cork, Ireland
THE Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock T.D., has sent his congratulations to the 6,825 Leaving Certificate students in Cork who are receiving their examination results today.
3,421 female and 3,404 male students in Cork sat the Junior Certificate in June, out of a total of 58,798 nationally.
Sean Sherlock
THE Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock, TD, has sent his congratulations to the country’s 55,815 Leaving Certificate students who are receiving their results today.
“As the Minister of State with responsibility for curriculum development in STEM subjects I am particularly pleased with the uptake and attainment levels in Maths and in the science and technology subjects. [Read more...]
MINISTER for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock has welcomed today’s announcement that 911 new jobs will be created over the next three years in 53 new high potential start up companies, 7 of which are located in Cork.
Today’s announcement relates to companies to which support has been provided in the first six months of 2012 under Enterprise Ireland’s High Potential Start-Ups Programme. Both the number of investments and the number of jobs to be created are significantly up on the same period last year (755 jobs/42 companies). [Read more...]
THE Minister for Research and Innovation, Mr. Seán Sherlock TD, has welcomed latest European Commission figures which show that to date researchers from Ireland have been awarded €430m under the EU Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development . [Read more...]
THE accusation from Peadar Tóibín of Sinn Fein that Government TDs voted against an amendment that would safeguard Sunday premiums for low paid workers is “a little bit hard to take”, according to Labour’s Seán Sherlock.
Richard Bruton
THE Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock T.D., together with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton T.D., has announced new structures to make it easier to commercialise and ultimately create jobs from ideas developed through publicly-funded research, which currently receives total funding of over €800million per year.
The announcement represents the delivery of a key commitment in the Programme for Government and the Action Plan for Jobs 2012.
Seán Sherlock T.D., Minister for Research and Innovation, today [Wednesday] said he was very disappointed at today’s announcement of job losses at the at the Pfizer manufacturing facilities in Little Island and Ringaskiddy, Cork.
Minister Sherlock said: ‘Today’s announcement will come as a severe blow to the workers and their families. The focus now is to ensure maximum support and assistance for those workers affected by this announcement.
Seán Sherlock T.D., Minister for Research and Innovation, has welcomed the announcement by online games developer Red 5 Studios that it will establish its European Headquarters in Cork leading to the creation of 30 jobs high quality jobs for the region.
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