Geothermal Association of Ireland Hosts Full Day Conference

The Geothermal Association of Ireland is hosting a full day conference titled ‘Geothermal Resources in Ireland – Commercial Opportunities’, on 5 November 2008. The conference will be held at the NewPark Hotel in Kilkenny.

The conference will include high level presentations from leaders in national government, industry associations, commercial developers, academics, geologists, engineers, banking and legal institutions. Minister Eamonn Ryan will be the Guest Speaker.

Topics include: Geology/Hydrogeology issues in Ireland, the Newcastle Deep Borehole Project, Contractual Arrangements for Operation of District Heating Schemes, Legal & Banking issues of geothermal developments, Case studies and a Report from the GTRH group.

This conference is an excellent networking event to meet those directly involved in developing geothermal resources.

Come along and learn about the growth opportunities for the geothermal industry, both shallow and deep, open and closed, in Ireland over the next few years.

Please see http://www.geothermalassociation.ie/events/ for more information or contact GAI Events Officer Laura Steerman at 086 3095535 or info@geothermalassociation.ie

Kindly sponsored by Geothermal Energy Ltd, Philip Lee Solicitors, IGI, Planet Earth and Enviro-Solutions.com

Bank of Ireland Trouble

Bank of Ireland is short of cash. Although it is not in such dire straits as HBOS and Bradford & Bingley, it desperately needs a huge injection of capital to fund an increasingly unhealthy loan book.

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Architectural and interior design company opens in Gorey, Co Wexford

Champagne corks popped and glasses were raised to launch Gorey’s newest business last week. On Friday night, Anthony Masterson, Wexford ‘s footballing goalie, launched Hayes & Boland Ltd Design Studios , an architectural and interior design company, marking its official take-off at its offices at 4A The Palms on The Avenue just off Gorey’s main street.

Top members of Gorey’s business community were on hand to support the new firm, which will specialise in domestic and commercial projects. “We’re delighted to be opening in Gorey, as it’s a thriving town and a gateway to the South East,” said director Stephen Hayes. His co-director, interior architect/designer Mary Boland and architect Gaston Béhal, were also on hand to greet family, friends and prospective clients.

“We provide architecture and interior design for creative house designs and extensions, hotel and leisure developments, commercial and industrial designs,” said Stephen. The company also provides project management, energy rating certificates for existing and new builds, and submits planning applications to the relevant local authorities.

Between them, the locally-based team brings almost 30 years’ of experience to their new venture, including work on projects as diverse as schools, offices, apartments and domestic dwellings, office fit-outs, pubs and, hotels.

If you’re thinking of building or extending, why not call in and meet the team at their weekly free Open Information Evenings, held at Hayes & Boland’s offices in The Palms every Thursday, from 5.30pm-9pm. Consultations by appointment only.

To contact Hayes & Boland or make an appointment, phone 053 948 9537.

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Daft Media Invests in Boards.ie

Daft Media, owner of leading property website Daft.ie, today announced the acquisition of a minority stake in Boards.ie for an undisclosed sum.

Boards.ie is Ireland’s largest community website and attracts an audience of approximately one million monthly unique visitors. The investment will help strengthen the position of Boards.ie as a top Irish brand and online destination. There will be continued investment in Boards.ie in order to maintain growth and seek out new audiences. Over the longer term, both companies have committed to continue to provide an independent and neutral platform for Irish consumers to voice their opinions.

“We are very happy to welcome Daft on board as partners in Boards.ie”, said Gerry Shanahan, Managing Director, Boards.ie. “This investment will give us the ability to invest further in infrastructure, to add more features to the website and ultimately provide an improved service to our community of users.”

Commenting on the investment, Eamonn Fallon, CEO, Daft Media “We strongly believe the future of media is online and Boards.ie is well positioned to be a leading player in Irish online media. Our combined audience is over 2.1 million unique viewers every month which is larger than most TV stations in Ireland. We are very happy to be working with the Boards.ie guys and look forward to helping them grow their business”.

Property Website Let.ie Relaunched

Dublin, Ireland – Let.ie, one of the leading letting web sites in Ireland for more than a decade, has reinvented its popular web site for those seeking to rent Dublin apartments, houses and rooms. In addition to finding Dublin apartments to let, Let.ie features thousands of houses to let, apartments to let, and rooms for rent in every county – as well as commercial rentals and overseas rentals – both short term let and annual rentals. Utilizing the most advanced technology available, the newly redesigned let website is fast and user-friendly. Let.ie is attracting record numbers of prospective tenants and landlords searching Google – widely recognized as the world’s best and most popular search engine. It also appears in the top three results of Ireland’s property searches.

“Let.ie is now unsurpassed in Ireland and impressively ranked number-one on Google in category,” said Fiachra McCloskey, a director of Let.ie. “The redesign was motivated by our unwavering commitment to provide the most affordable, user-friendly, and largest selection of letting information in Ireland using cutting-edge technology. In today’s Internet-driven era, prospective tenants, agents, landlords, mortgage and insurance brokers must be able to find or list their properties or services in an extremely efficient manner online – while affordability is of the utmost importance.”

Let.ie’s new high-tech enhancements include a faster server to ensure the quickest delivery of Ireland’s biggest list properties to let, and the latest Microsoft .NET framework coupled with fast-loading CSS coding.

In June 2008, Let.ie received more than a half million hits and over 56,000 unique visits from individuals seeking an Irish house to let or apartments in Dublin. Whether a potential renter needs more information about renting in Dublin or a commercial property to let in any county – the all-new, high speed Let.ie outperforms the competition. Let.ie continues to be the most inexpensive way for potential real estate property and service advertisers to appear on Ireland’s number-one ranked letting web site on Google.

Landlords will appreciate the increase of enquiries generated from advertising on one of the highest ranking letting sites on the Internet. As an added benefit, Let.ie’s advertising rates are priced at much keener rates than their main competitors. Fast upload speeds of properties will be a major benefit for both advertisers and the landlord or agent who is dealing with multiple units.

Visit http://www.let.ie for more information.

About Let.ie
Founded in 1997, Let.ie’s low costs and award-winning ease-of-use has made it one of Ireland’s leading property websites providing low-cost online advertising to Irish estate agencies, landlords, homeowners and tenants. Let.ie provides properties in all categories to let, information, help, foreign property to let, parking spaces, and new homes nationwide and in every county including Northern Ireland.