Team Cavern Nauts, Ger Stone and Joe Bentley from Tipperary pictured playing "Sourse Control" of exGamers Studios in LIT Thurles, which hosts Games Fleadh 2015 on March 11th. Pic Brian Arthur / Press 22

Some of the biggest names in the gaming industry will gather at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) campus in Thurles later this month to participate in Games Fleadh 2015, an all-island games design and development competition for third-level students.

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Space age technology originally developed by NASA is being used at Active Ennis Leisure Complex in County Clare to help improve recovery times, increase mobility and lessen the chance of future injury for athletes and patients.

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Local entrepreneur Dr. Paddy Finn from Electricity Exchange Ltd. in Castletroy, Limerick, will this weekend be bidding to become ‘Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur’ (IBYE).

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Fine Gael Senator Tony Mulcahy has said an announcement next week regarding the future roll-out of broadband in Clare will give clarity to rural communities still without access to an affordable high speed internet service.

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The European Union has been called on to back a proposal to bridge the digital divide in rural communities of Clare, Limerick and Tipperary which are unable to access fibre or wireless broadband services.

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Small and medium enterprises in County Clare are being invited to participate in an EU project aimed at improving the IT capabilities of rural businesses.

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Limerick Radio Club members Alan EI8EM - Mike EI2IX - Brendan EI0CZ - Liam EI7DSB - Ger EI4GXB - erecting high frequency antenna

A group of amateur ham radio operators will wind back the clock at Loop Head Lighthouse this weekend when they attempt to communicate via radio and Morse code with hundreds of radio clubs throughout the world.

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Stimare today agreed a product distribution deal with one of world's leading providers of e-commerce and ticketing software for events and entertainment organizations.

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Clare Fine Gael Senator Tony Mulcahy has called on Eircom and other fibre broadband providers not to increase internet charges after Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg) said rural internet users are not paying the full cost of broadband provision.

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Alan Foudy of Funerals Live. Photo Eamon Ward

 

Members of the Irish Diaspora who are unable to travel to Ireland to attend family funerals are set to benefit from a newly launched service providing internet broadcasts of Irish funeral services to clients.

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Clare County Council today outlined plans to facilitate the development of Pumped Freshwater Hydro Energy Storage facilities similar to those already developed at Turlough Hill in County Wicklow.

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The Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience website has been shortlisted for another major digital award just weeks after finishing as a runner-up in the eircom Golden Spider Awards.

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A Limerick-based hi-tech engineering company claims companies are being forced to look abroad to fill vacant job positions due to an ongoing shortfall in Engineering and Science graduates in Ireland.

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Clare County Council has launched of a new system of alerting members of the public about road closures, severe weather warnings and other service changes throughout Clare.

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Emutex MD John Twomey (LEFT) and Emutex Software Engineer Anthony Fee (RIGHT) pictured with 2012/13 Emutex Scholarship and Internship Programme winner, Robert Bordianu

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The Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience website has been shortlisted for an eircom Golden Spider Award.

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The Mid West Regional Authority (MWRA) is looking to Europe to increase the online presence of rural small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in County Clare.

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Free customer Wi-Fi access has been introduced at the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience in County Clare to coincide with the launch of a smartphone app that guides tourists around the world-famous visitor attraction.

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A group of amateur ham radio operators from Limerick, Clare, Kerry and Tipperary successfully managed to make contact from Loop Head Lighthouse with 350 other radio clubs throughout the world at the weekend.

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The first in a series of projects aimed at documenting the social history of Limerick through one of the country’s largest cemeteries has been completed.

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