Dec23Wed

Ireland wins ‘best destination’ award in New York

Ireland has won a major travel award in New York, the “best destination in Europe” – for the seventh year in a row
RTE

The award was announced at the 18th annual Travel Weekly Readers Choice Awards. Ireland took the number one spot in the “best destination in Europe” category – beating off tough competition from England, France, Greece, Italy and Spain.

Travel Weekly is the leading weekly newspaper for American travel agents and travel professionals and thousands of its readers voted in the various categories earlier this year. Ireland has won this award every year since 2014.

Welcoming news of the award, Niall Gibbons, Chief Executive of Tourism Ireland, said they were delighted that Ireland has been singled out for the seventh year in a row.

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Dec21Mon

Member News from Almac Group

A Souderton firm played a key role in testing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine
Philadelphia Inquirer

While the fanfare surrounding Pfizer’s recently approved COVID-19 vaccine resounds throughout pandemic-stricken America, a Souderton company that played a key role in its journey from test tube to approval is helping scores of other firms in their quests for successful encores.

Since early summer, Almac has been at the heart of the far-flung and intense search for drugs to combat the coronavirus, facilitating trials for the COVID-related products of at least 80 pharmaceutical and bio-tech companies, most notably the Pfizer vaccine that on Dec. 11 won emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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