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Jim Killoran is the executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Westchester, and will serve as grand marshal for the inaugural 2012 Sound Shore St.

Education: Bachelor of Science, Master in Accounting, MBA from Babson College; CPA company headquarters: Dublin, Ireland; U.S. headquarters: Boston About the company: Emergn is a global IT management consultancy that uses Lean and Agile-inspired methodologies to increase value, improve flow and advance quality across the enterprise.

In a serious climbdown for the Government, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr Phil Hogan TD, announced on Tuesday that he has established a high level and focussed inter-departmental expert group to consider the structures and methods for an equitable valuation-based property tax that will replace the current 100 ... (more)

The first series of Brendan O'Carroll's Mrs Brown's Boys has sold over one million copies on DVD in Ireland and the UK since it went on sale in October.

Up to 10,000 people attended a free careers event in Dublin at the weekend in the hope of picking up one of the 2,500 jobs on offer.

THE Government is scrapping all 35 of the local independent quangos advising businesses in a revamp of supports for small and start-up companies.

He was one of the most recognisable voices and faces of Irish stage and screen, playing everything from Beckett to Shakespeare.

Living as I am now in London I've decided for my latest piece of illustrative handiwork to depict London's mayoral election candidates, BOJO and Ken Livingstone, as it's these bigger than life characters who are an ever present feature that runs through all the free papers I keep getting handed on my way to the underground! In any case here they ... (more)

Cynics tend to think of Valentine as materialistic hype imported via Hallmark from America.

Garry Keane, from Ballyshannon won the IFTA in the Best Director Television Category for his superb work on "The Writing in the Sky" - a stunning documentary about the writer Dermot Healy.

Enter Frank Daly, the family man. On Friday morning Nama chief Frank Daly proudly introduced us to his new family.

Police believe the blaze started accidentally. After responding to a report of a house fire at the Canterbrook Estate, on the Trim Road, gardai and fire services found the bodies of a 28-year-old woman and her young son, in an upstairs bedroom.

OpenHydro Group Limited is an Irish energy technology company. The company designs and manufactures marine turbines for generating renewable energy from tidal streams.

The winners of the 9th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards were announced at a Gala Awards Ceremony held at the Convention Centre Dublin on Saturday 11th of February 2012.

THIS year, notches up some remarkable events, the Queen's diamond jubilee, the Olympic Games held in the UK and the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, to name but three.

The Absolute Hotel and Spa, Limerick, will host what organisers promise to be "a spectacular event". Co-organised by GayWeddingsIreland.ie and Enchanted Occasions, a wedding planning and event management company, the fair will take place on Sunday, Feb 26, from 2pm to 6pm.

Miriam Holmes and her daughter, Hayley, who ran the Avondale home in Callan, Co Kilkenny, until it was closed down by a court order last summer, have to face a rigorous procedure before taking up employment in Australia in future.

The Finance Act has been revised so that the definition of bread includes the traditional Waterford Blaa, exempting it from VAT A group of Dublin students are carrying out a novel experiment to investigate if singing to plants makes them grow faster Who has been chosen to replace Fabio Capello in England's next match against the Netherlands? Try ... (more)

Joseph Kennedy of Stocking Hill, Ballyboden, Dublin, was also ordered to pay 85 costs and a 15 victim's surcharge after pleading guilty to a poaching charge when he went before Boston magistrates.

Thomond Park is the venue tonight for one of the most hotly contested AIL derby games as Shannon and Young Munster meet.