Congratulations to Irish Chamber member, Joe Burke!
Nov21Sat
Nov12Thu
This year’s transatlantic conference will be hosted virtually from the historic Guildhall in Derry featuring a range of speakers and delegates from the US and Ireland who will discuss issues including COVID and Brexit. The Golden Bridges Conference will give the US audience a unique insight into how those living and working in the border region of Derry, Strabane and Donegal are collaborating to prepare for Brexit. Our full program can be viewed online here.
The annual awards presentation will also take place, honouring our friends in Irish America who go to great lengths to strengthen the bond between the US and Ireland North West.
This year we are proud to be honoring:
• Congressman Brendan Boyle
• Christine Kinealy, Chair Institute of Ireland’s Great Hunger, Quinnipiac University
• Councilman Frank Baker
• Joseph Burke, Deputy Director in the Office of International Business Development, PA
• Steve Burke, Executive Director, Irish Cultural Centre of New England
• Grace Cotter Regan, President Boston College High School
• Padraic MacLaughlin
• Mark Porter, Director, Irish Pastoral Centre, Boston
• Kathy Savage, LAOH (Recipient of the Dave Burke Award)
• Connemara Gaels, Boston
• Senator Nick Collins
Nov11Wed
NI pharma firm Almac’s role in Covid-19 vaccine
BBC.com
Almac, the Northern Ireland pharmaceutical firm, is playing a role in the clinical trials of the first effective Covid-19 vaccine.
On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech said preliminary results showed it can prevent more than 90% of people from getting the virus. Almac’s clinical services division provides clinical trials support to BioNTech. It involves things like distribution, labelling and temperature management. The vaccine has been tested on 43,500 people in six countries. It has to be kept in ultra-cold storage at below minus 80C – Almac’s hardware and software is used to maintain this temperature requirement.
Oct23Fri
Irish company, Submit.com, is offering free QR contact tracing forms to businesses to support them during Covid as a 100% contactless method for collecting their team and customers’ details in line with government guideline for contact tracing.
This could be rolled out anywhere from creches and schools to hotels, bars, restaurants to opticians, and hairdressers.
More information here: https://submit.com/qr-code-contact-tracing/
We were thrilled to have representation from our partners at The Cork Chamber of Commerce, ICL (Independent Container Lines), The Port of Cork, and Penn Terminals to share their knowledge on the brand new Cork-Chester Shipping Route at our virtual seminar – A Global Conversation: Keeping the Show on the Road and the Sea on October 1st. This mutually-beneficial trans-Atlantic container shipping service is the first direct link between the USA and Ireland in years.
Oct13Tue
Cork man Sean Doyle named as British Airways’ new chief executive
Donal Moriarty will replace Doyle as CEO of Aer Lingus
Sean Doyle, current Aer Lingus chairman and chief executive, is to become the new chief executive of British Airways, taking over from Alex Cruz. Donal Moriarty, currently Aer Lingus’ chief corporate affairs officer, will now assume the top job at the airline.
In a statement on Monday, IAG, which owns both Aer Lingus and British Airways, said that Cruz has stepped down after four-and-a-half years in the role.
