Global Flood Solutions featured in Scotland On Sunday

Global Flood Solutions’s deal with UK company SG Baker made Scotland’s biggest Sunday paper this week, Scotland On Sunday – the coverage is below.

Achieving coverage in the UK can be very beneficial for Irish company’s because international coverage carries a lot of weight here at home and can be a huge boost in profile. Even though  the Big Bag Solution is being promoted and sold in the UK by SG Baker this type of coverage will benefit Global Flood Solutions in the UK by raising the profile of the products their and helping boost sales through SG Baker.

For more details on the Big Bag Solution please call Global Flood Solutions on +353 (0) 90 6666 066.

Kuvera investors success against legal advisers

Anthony Joyce & Co, the Dublin legal firm, received some major success yesterday in their long running high profile case representing the Kuvera Action Group. A decision by the Court in Dublin ruled that most of the 289 investors were entitled to their money back from Seymour Majors, the legal firm that advised Kuvera in relation to development projects in India.

Below are two article from The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner today outlining the case. If you require any further details, then please call Anthony Joyce on 01 4545000. Please click on the image below to zoom.

Article in The Irish Times 8.12.2010

Article in The Irish Examiner 8.12.2010

Stephen Fry’s letter to his two millionth Twitter follower

Broadcaster extraordinaire and British national treasure Stephen Fry got his two millionth follower on Twitter (to see Stephen Fry’s Twitter page click here) this week and to celebrate he penned an open letter to his two millionth follower @mobijack. In his letter he talks about his relationship with tumultuous relationship with Twitter.

It’s very long so I haven’t pasted in here but it is well worth a read. Entitled “Two Million Reasons To Be Cheerful”, to read it in full click here.

Twitter allows people to send Tweets direct to anyone else on Twitter and as a result people can message celebrities. Naturally by allowing this type of direct communication celebrities have a fantastic way to communicate at arms length with fans, but with this comes the downside that critics or anyone that wants to have a go at a celebrity now has the conduit to do so. This has led to a couple of incidences when Mr Fry got a lot of unwarranted flak for some of his comments. He says he was misquoted and whether you believe that or not he has his right to his opinion. This does not give the users of Twitter the right to abuse the freedom the Twitter provides haranguing and vilifying other users. On a couple of occasions this is has led to Mr Fry saying he was going to give up Twitter and some people still think he still has. Thankfully he hasn’t and Twitter and @mobijack is richer for it. Long may it continue.

Long after me and Mr Fry are long gone I have no doubt that our Twitter accounts are going to provide a unique insight for historians into what we were like as people far more than has been possible with previous famous figures. Hopefully it will stand the test of time and our sarcasm and facetious on Twitter won’t be taken the wrong way.

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Public Open Day at Cork Medical Centre 20th November, 2010.

Every wanted to see the inside of an operating theatre? Check out a CT or MRI scanner? Then now’s your chance!

Cork Medical Centre, Ireland’s newest hospital, is having a Public Open Day on Saturday 20^th November. Everyone is welcome to visit this state-of-the-art-facility between 10am and 4pm – there will be hospital tours throughout the day.

The €90m private hospital is the first new private hospital to open in Cork for 90 years. Opened in Mahon last month, it is the first hospital in Ireland to provide all single ensuite bedrooms. This is the last chance for visitors to see the six cutting edge Opitz and Flierl operating theatres, the 75 single ensuite bedrooms, or get up close with the hospital’s CT and MRI scanners.

Free blood pressure tests will be provided to all visitors and face painting will be on hand for children.

It was recently announced that the Cork Medical Centre is to be covered for 80% Quinn Healthcare and Aviva customers; both companies will be on hand during the Open Day to give people advice on healthcare and answer any questions they have about their health plans, taking out a health insurance plan or how to switch providers. They’ll also be running giveaways for prizes on the day.

According to Philip Sheehan, the Chief Operating Officer of Cork Medical Centre: “The hospital is very special, this type of facility has not been provided in Cork before. We want to use the Public Open Day on Saturday 20^th November to show the people of Cork what fantastic facility they have on their doorstep. We need to close the operating theatres to visitors soon, so this is the last chance for people to see the inside of an operating theatre and the incredible scanners that we have here.”

For further details please call the hospital on 021 601 3200. The last tour of the day will start at 3pm.

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Winners announced of 53rd Annual National Skills Championships

Mary Gore, National Skills Champion 2010

The 53^rd annual National Skills Competition ended today with a lavish awards ceremony in the Round Room at Dublin’s Mansion House attended the by the current occupant the Lord Mayor himself. Sponsored by Snickers Workwear [disclosure: client] for the 5^th year in a row, the competition pitted apprentices from all over Ireland, head-to-head in 13 trades.

Run by the Dublin Institute of Technology, the competition tested every aspect of the skill and workmanship of the apprentices over an intense period of two and a half days – imagine sitting a the equivalent of a practical exam over two and half days. That’s intense stuff for young apprentices, but will probably be more pressure than they will ever face on the job, so it will serve well in their chosen careers.

We’ve had great interest from RTE this week with the competition featuring on the RTE’s Six One and Nine O’Clock News. The News featured an interview with Mary Gore, who’s at the front of the photo above; she’s now Ireland’s National Car Painting Champion. National Skills will also feature on the Thursday’s Capital D programme at 7pm on RTE1. We’ve also had great support in the press with the papers all over country featuring their local winners.

“The numbers of apprentices in Ireland is down 86%[1] since the boom” said David Macken, Managing Director of Snickers Workwear (Ireland) Limited. He added: “most of the firms in the competition, which are still supporting apprentices, are SMEs such as auto technicians, auto dody painters and repairers, builders, narpenters and furniture makers, electricians, painter & decorators, plumbers, sheet metal workers etc. They are the backbone of our economy and should be supported by the government and applauded by their community.”

Snickers Workwear provided all the clothing for the competitors, who were kitted out from head to toe in gear from Europe’s leading Workwear manufacturer.

The National Skills Champions in each trade were as follows:

Aircraft Maintenance

Name: Padraig Molloy

From: Nurney, Co. Kildare

Employer: Dublin Aerospace, Dublin Airport

Automobile Technology

Name: Brian Durning

From: Creeslough, Co. Donegal

Employer: Creeslough Tyre & Battery Centre, Co. Donegal

Autobody Repair

Name: Justin Moore

From: Carlow

Employer: Nigel Pratt, Bennekerry, Carlow

Beauty Therapy

Name: Claire Cullen

From: Foxrock, Dublin

College: Dun Laoghaire CFE

Bricklaying

Name: Paul Molloy

From: New Ross, Co. Wexford

Employer: Self Employed (student at WIT)

Cabinet Making

Name: Gerard O’Loughlin

From: Inagh, Co. Clare

College: Institute of Technology, Galway/Mayo Letterfrack

Car Painting

Name: Mary Gore

From: Clonsaugh, Dublin

Employer: Lois Colley Motors Ltd., Santry, Dublin

Cookery

Name: Colm O’Sullivan

From: Kenmare, Co. Kerry

Employer: Mulcahy Restaurant, Kenmare, Co. Kerry

Heavy Vehicle Mechanics

Name: Colm Carberry

From: Kilcock, Co. Kildare

Employer: Bus Eireann, Phibsboro, Dublin

Painting & Decorating

Name: Daniel Pepper

From: Ballyphehane, Cork

Employer: Mr. Eddie Pepper, Ballyphehane, Cork

Plumbing

Name: Shane Stringer

From: Doolin, Co. Clare

Employer: Albert Stringer, Doolin, Co. Clare

Polymechanics

Name: Fintan Collins

From: Dunmanway, Co. Cork

Employer: Port of Cork Company, Cork

Sheetmetal Work

Name: Michael Savage

From: Clondalkin, Dublin

Employer: Chambers Engineering, Coolock, Dublin

These winners will now have a chance to represent Ireland at the 2010 World Skills competition in London. World Skills has been dubbed the Olympics for tradesmen. For World Skills 2011 please see: http://www.worldskillslondon2011.com/

Photos or interviews with any of the winners can be obtained from Simon Palmer of Republic PR; tel: 01 282 2504, email: simon@republicpr.ie or Twitter: @simonprepublic.

About Snickers Workwear

Snickers manufacture and provide workwear for professional tradesmen and service people. Their products are renowned for their quality, function and innovative solutions. The company was founded in Sweden in 1975 and since then has grown strongly so that today, Snickers Workwear is one of Europe’s leading brands in work wear, and is represented in 15 countries.

Snickers was founded by Matti Viio who worked as an electrician from 1959 to 1972 Whilst in those years working methods, technology, materials and tools evolved, but workwear was still the same as in the mid-nineteenth century. Workwear failed to fill modern requirements concerning function, comfort and design with manufacturers showing no interest in the workers real needs. In the end Matti Viio designed his own garments to work in.

Sophisticated testing and quality control procedures are carried out at every stage of the process, from the moment a new design leaves the drawing board through to final quality certification. Snickers Workwear makes relevant functions on durable and reliable garments to fit the roughest conditions.

About Dublin Institute of Technology

Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) is one of Ireland’s largest and most innovative institutions of higher education.  It is credited with the development of technical education in Ireland in the late 19^th century and continues to build on this tradition, providing education from certificate to doctorate level.

The Institute currently has some 20,000 students, fulltime and part-time, studying at all levels from certificate to Doctorate.

DIT is part of the landscape of Dublin city, with six major campus locations around the city centre.  A new single campus for DIT is being developed at Grangegorman

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Wanted man Karl Morris of Simple Overseas Properties

Have you seen Karl Morris?

40 clients of Dublin legal firm Anthony Joyce & Co are looking for Karl Morris to recover over €1m of funds, which they claim they paid him for deposits on properties in the Asilah Beach development in Morocco.

Morris has properties in  Ireland and Spain. He was last seen at his villa in Benalmadena near Malaga in Spain.

A private detective hired by investors cannot find him so Anthony Joyce is issuing a public appeal to find him.

If you have any details about the whereabouts of Karl Morris then please contact Anthony Joyce on + 353 (0) 1 4545 000.

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The Cork Medical Centre, Cork’s new €90m hospital open 16th September, 2010.

The Cork Medical Centre, City Gate, Mahon, Cork.

The Cork Medical Centre, Cork City’s  newest private hospital, the first to open for thirty years, will open it’s doors on 16th September, 2010.

Developed and operated by Sheehan Medical, the €90 million facility will house the latest medical technology from Siemens Healthcare, making it the most technologically advanced hospital ever developed in Ireland.

The Cork Medical Centre will be a 5 star facility providing 75 single in-patient bedrooms, fully sealed with the latest in infection control.  The main focus of the hospital will be surgery; there will be four operating theatres and a same day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds.

The 135,000 sq ft hospital has the capacity to offer over 39,000 patient treatments per year.

The hospital will also house an intensive care unit; radiology facilities with MRI / CT / X-ray scanners; a cardiology and neuroscience facility. International accreditation, benchmarking and auditing will be provided by an internationally renowned healthcare organization.

“We are delighted to be able to confirm the official opening date and already we have consultants and other medical staff moving into the complex to prepare for the opening,” said Cork Medical Centre’s Chief Operating Officer Philip Sheehan.

All of the big three health insurers are expected to confirm they will cover the hospital in the coming weeks. “We have had positive talks from the VHI since September 2007 and expect to confirm the details in the coming weeks and we are also at advanced stages of confirming with both Aviva and Quinn Healthcare. Cork is massively under-serviced when it comes to private beds with less than half the number per capita.” said Mr Sheehan.

The Cork Medical Centre is the Sheehan’s third venture in Ireland – as they are one of the founders and major shareholders of the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin and the Galway Clinic, both covered by all three health insurers. The group also has strong links with the Loyola University Health System in Chicago – one of the world’s largest health centres and renowned for its research, development and pioneering approach to new treatments.

The opening of the state-of-the art hospital is a major milestone in the development of the City Gate Medical Campus which already houses the largest VHI SwiftCare Clinic in the country and the VHI Medical Centre.

“People of the region deserve a new facility like this on their doorstep rather than having to make a journey elsewhere for the most modern treatment available in world medicine.  A lot of our existing patients in both Blackrock and the Galway clinics are commuting form the Cork area already” added Mr Sheehan.

More photos and videos of the hospital can be viewed at the Cork Medical Centre’s Facebook page http://www.tinyurl.ie/5q. You can also use the Facebook page to ask the Sheehan Medical team questions about the hospital.

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Kensington Royale, Dubai Sports City – Middle East Development LLC

Along with solicitor Anthony Joyce,  I recently met investors from all over Ireland whom have bought property in the Kensington Royale development in the Dubai Sports City development, which is being marketed by MED (Middle Eastern Development LLC).

'Progress' shot from MED's website July 2010 (please click image to zoom)

The investors agreed to form an action group and appoint Anthony Joyce to act on their behalf and Republic to help them with the media and promotion to other investors on line. This is the sixth overseas property group Anthony Joyce are representing.

The action group is now successfully taking shape and we are receiving multiple daily requests from other investors in Kensington Royale who want to get involved. We have been contacted by over 30 investors from numerous countries around the world.

Anthony Joyce has now contacted MED and is seeking answers and exploring the groups options.

If any further investors would like to join the Group then please contact me on simon@republicpr.ie or telephone on +353 1 282 2504. For further details please see http://www.republicpr.ie.

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Sheehan Medical signs €8.5m deal with Siemens

Sheehan Medical agrees €8.5m deal with Siemens for Cork’s newest private hospital

Major contract awarded by Cork Medical Centre to supply and finance the latest medical diagnostic technology.

4^th July, 2010. Cork Ireland: Cork is due to get the Ireland’s most high-tech hospital following an announcement today by Irish private hospital operator, Sheehan Medical, that Siemens Healthcare has been awarded the €8.5m contract to provide the healthcare technology and financing for their new private hospital, the Cork Medical Centre.

The new €90m hospital will open in Cork in the September and will be the first new private hospital facility to open in the city for 30 years. Owned by the Sheehan Medical, the Cork Medical Centre will be a technology driven hospital that will lead the field with the newest and most promising interventions for stroke, brain tumours, back pain and other sites of chronic pain.

According to James Sheehan, the Chief Executive of Sheehan Medical, he said a key factor in choosing Siemens was their ability to provide the latest technology to enhance clinical outcomes, plus their ability to support it with financing, ICT and project management ‘‘We have first class technology in all our hospitals and aim to make the Cork Medical Centre the most high-tech facility ever developed in Ireland. Siemens is an important part of this aim, their ability to provide an integrated approach that covers innovative technology will allow us levels of diagnosis and treatment that will be in unsurpassed in this country. The success of this deal marks the next stage of the on-going five year relationship with Siemens whose technology we have used extensively before.”

The contract includes financing for all the hospitals equipment from Siemens Financial Services, the company’s first deal in Ireland. Approximately half €7m the total is for technology from Siemens Healthcare, including a suite of state-of-the-art equipment, including its flagship angiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), x-ray and ultrasound equipment (specific details on the equipment are outlined in the Notes To Editors below).

Kevin Dand, Head of Siemens Healthcare in Ireland, stated “We were keen to partner with Sheehan Medical in a vision to provide the best in surgical and diagnostic services. The technology advancements of our imaging equipment will assist Cork Medical Centre in their mission to offer a much quicker, safer and seamless journey for the patient, improving the speed of diagnosis and treatment.”

Increasingly patients and physicians prefer minimally invasive therapy over surgery because of the reduced recovery time. “With the Artis zee Bi-plane technology, these interventions can be much quicker. Cork Medical Centre will take delivery of the latest bi-plane technology, enhancing the clinicians’ ability to diagnose, guide and treat the disease whether cardiac, neuro or oncology,” explains Dand.

The Cork Medical Centre will be a 5 star facility providing 75 single in-patient bedrooms, fully sealed with the latest in infection control.  The main focus of the hospital will be surgery; there will be four operating theatres and a same day surgery centre with 20 out-patient beds.  The hospital, which is located at the City Gate Complex in Mahon Point, will have a strong focus on neurology and cardiology.

The hospital will also house an intensive care unit; radiology a cardiology, oncology and neuroscience facility. International accreditation, benchmarking and auditing will be provided by an internationally renowned healthcare organisation

For further information please contact: Simon Palmer, at Republic on + 353 (0) 851 341 761 or email: simon@republicpr.ie

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Siemens’ technology

Siemens Healthcare will provide a suite of equipment including its flagship angiography system, the Artis zee bi-plane flat panel detector, a revolutionary new system for advanced imaging in interventional radiology, cardiology and neuroradiology investigations.

Siemens Enterprise Communications will provide a turnkey Information and Communications Healthcare Network focused on productivity, security and mobility; delivering complete access to clinical information and patient workflows from any device, regardless of location.

Siemens is also delivering state-of-the-art equipment in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). The Siemens’ Magnetom Essenza MRI system, which due to its 1.5T field strength, will allow CMC to deliver superior image quality and offer greater diagnostic confidence to support a complete range of clinical applications, including neurology, orthopaedics, body imaging, angiography, cardiology, breast imaging, oncology and paediatric imaging.

The Essenza also offers shorter scan times increasing productivity, due to its revolutionary TIM (total imaging matrix) technology, which eliminates the need for patient repositioning during scans. Additionally, the Essenza’s ultra-short bore design will alleviate concerns of claustrophobia, since many patients can be imaged with their head outside of the bore.

The Somatom Definition AS 64 brings together high-end CT imaging including neuro CT scanning. With 64 slice imaging, the AS provides physicians with more information to detect and diagnose conditions earlier. Siemens is also delivering additional x-ray and ultrasound equipment.

Key elements of the High Availability solution are Siemens OpenScape SIP based Voice & Unified Communications Server – a carrier class architecture based completely on Open Standards for third party application integration , Enterasys Secure Networks LAN and Wireless LAN using the latest 802.11n technology for immediate access to information from mobile devices, an EMC Storage Area Network, VMware Virtualised Server & Client Environment from our technology partners, Fujitsu and a Nextgen Technologies Triple Play IPTV Patient Entertainment Solution.

About Sheehan Medical

Sheehan Medical was set up to operate private hospitals in the UK, Britain and mainland Europe. The company is operated by Chief Executive, James Sheehan, and his father Dr Joseph Sheehan C.M., who is Chairman.

Sheehan Medical’s aim is to bring best practice in US medical techniques and standards to Ireland. The company prides itself in combining the operation of first class medical facilities with a successful business model. The unique share holding structure allows doctors and consultants to buy into the ownership of their hospitals and share in the financial success.

An active surgeon for over 35 years Sheehan Medical’s Chairman, Dr Joseph Sheehan, along with his brother Dr Jimmy Sheehan, both Dublin natives, were two of the founders of the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, which opened in 1984. In January 2006, he was part of a small group that purchased the controlling interest in the Blackrock Clinic from BUPA. An €80m expansion project is currently underway.

In 2004 he again partnered with his brother Jimmy to open the Galway Clinic, which received international recognition and re-established Dr. Sheehan’s commitment to raising healthcare standards through dedication to quality improvement and technological advances.  Further information can be found by visiting http://ww.sheehanmedical.com or http://www.corkmedicalcentre.com

About Siemens

Siemens is a global company providing products, systems, services and solutions for the industry, energy and healthcare sectors. The company employs over 1,000 highly skilled people in Ireland and has offices in Dublin and Cork.

Siemens Healthcare is one of the world’s largest suppliers to the healthcare industry. The company is a renowned medical solutions provider with core competence and innovative strength in diagnostic and therapeutic technologies as well as in knowledge engineering, including information technology and system integration. Siemens Healthcare is the first integrated healthcare company, bringing together imaging and lab diagnostics, therapy and healthcare information technology solutions. Siemens Healthcare delivers solutions across the entire continuum of care — from prevention and early detection, to diagnosis, therapy and care. Further information can be found by visiting http://www.siemens.ie

Siemens Enterprise Communications is a premier provider of end-to-end enterprise communications, including voice, network infrastructure and security solutions that use open, standards-based architectures to unify communications and business applications for a seamless collaboration experience. This award-winning “Open Communications” approach enables organizations to improve productivity and reduce costs through easy-to-deploy solutions that work within existing IT environments, delivering operational efficiencies. It is the foundation for the company’s OpenPath® commitment that enables customers to mitigate risk and cost-effectively adopt unified communications. Jointly owned by The Gores Group and Siemens AG, Siemens Enterprise Communications companies include Siemens Enterprise Communications, Cycos, and Enterasys Networks.  Further information can be found by visiting http://www.siemens-enterprise.com

Jobs at Sheehan Medical’s new private hospital the Cork Medical Centre

The recruitment process for Cork’s newest private hospital the Cork Cork Medical Centre (CMC) is now underway. Based at City Gate in Mahon, Cork City the hospital is the first private facility to open in Cork for over thirty years.  Cork Medical Centre will open in September.

There is a new email address for CV which should be sent to hr@sheehanmedical.com

Please contact us for further details via the Cork Medical Centre’s Facebook page via the link below

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cork-KY/Cork-Medical-Centre/345303049764?ref=ts&_a=17

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