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Community Games Newsletter

Laura O’Donoghue has written up the latest newsletter for the Clonard Community Games.
Details include the finances, upcoming events and proposed events.
Please offer the committee support and assistance where possible.

2 Month Anniversary of the New Look Site.

Some interesting statistics about the clonard.org site after two months.
8,148 webpages viewed since December 20th 2006
An average of 131 pages viewed per day.
1,841 unique visitors
On average 45 people per day
Each person looks at least 3 pages
The searches that most often got someone to this site were in order of popularity…
clonard
monastery clonard
monastery inn
meath councillors
meath planning
houses […]

NEC is to Close in Ballivor

The sad news today from Ballivor was that NEC will be shutting their doors for good after 30 years.
The company made the announcement this evening and is blaming high operating costs for the closure.
The company employed 300 full time and around 50 part time staff. The jobs will be transferred to Singapore, Beijing and […]

Commuters Would Swap Commute for Wages

In yet another statement of the blindingly obvious a survey of Meath commuters has reached the amazing conclusion that “A survey of commuters in Co Meath has reportedly found that most are unhappy with the long hours they face travelling to and from work every day.”
Never. Really?
From breakingnews.ie
Commuters ‘would swap high wages for job closer […]

NEC Ballivor Jobs in Jeopardy

There are fears for the future of several hundred jobs at an electronics plant in Co Meath today.
The Japanese firm NEC Semiconductors has called an emergency meeting of staff at the plant in Ballivor this afternoon to outline its plans for the future.
More than 300 people are currently employed at the factory, which has […]

Kinnegad getting a new website

Kinnegads Community Council website is being revamped by Peter Dee at the moment.
If you have any suggestions or comments please mail them to info@kinnegadcommunitycouncil.com.

Finally figured out Unison.ie

For those of you who use unison.ie to read the papers and were frustrated by its total lack of search capabilities here’s a cool way to search it.
Note: you need to be registered to read the articles but registration is free.
Simply go to google.ie and type site:unison.ie (note there are no spaces) then leave […]

Irish Blog Awards

Well it’s official…I’ve been asked to judge several categories in the Irish Blog Awards.
I’ll be judging in some esteemed company including Sarah Carey from Enfield, John Breslin of boards.ie fame and Karlin Lillington from the Irish Times to name but a few.
Looking forward to the night, but judging some of these categories is […]