DIT To Get New €500m Campus

An Bord Pleanala Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) the green light for a new campus at Grangegorman in Dublin.

The €500m plan, which will see the existing 39 DIT colleges centralised on the one site and is the result of over ten years work.

The 75-acre development will also house a healthcare centre and a primary school at the site of the former St. Brendan’s psychiatric hospital.

James Mary O’Connor, a principal of MRY, MooreRubleYudell architects and planners, introduces the “Grangegorman” project in the video below:

Small Business Show #29 with Tim Kelly of Plaza Express [Video & Audio]

Choose from the Audio (above) or Video editions of this week’s show.

This week’s guest is Tim Kelly of Plaza Express, who have just launched their new daily bus service from Limerick to Dublin.  He explains how they have designed it for the business traveller and “keyboard warrior;) , with power points wifi and coffee on board for the two hour journey.  He’s also taken a leaf out of Ryanair’s book when it comes to pricing: book early enough and you could get your ticket for €1!

Other stories discussed: €1bn of deals on DoneDeal; Barrosso urges states to spend EU funds on Small Business; Rates Relief in the North; New Taxi Regulations.

The Small Business Show is syndicated weekly on Irish radio stations and podcast each Friday on focusmeireland.com.  You can subscribe for free to download the MP3s automatically using RSS or iTunes.

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Small Business Show #28 Video Edition

Welcome to The Small Business Show – Video Edition.  It’s not exactly radio; not quite TV either!  We’re still not sure what it it is but we hope to work it out over the coming weeks.

Starting today, the Video Edition of our weekly news review will appear every Friday.  The audio podcast of the news review will also appear on Friday.  This content makes up part one of the radio programme which goes out on local radio stations.

Parts 2 and 3 of the radio show appear as podcasts on Mondays and Wednesdays, and we continue to publish other audio and video content as well.

You can subscribe for free to automatically download Small Business Show MP3s using RSS or iTunes.  We’ll add feeds for some of the other options in the weeks to come.

Small Business Show Company Focus: Lough Derg Chocolates [video]

This week’s company focus is on two entrepreneurs who turned redundancy and unemployment into a successful new venture. Continue reading