Paul Higgins
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Virgin Media backs 10 short films in €150,000 festival scheme
- Media & Marketing
- January 13, 2021, 05:00
Virgin Media Ireland has awarded €9,000 to 10 filmmakers to invest in the development of their scripts in a short film competition run in partnership (...)

Denis O’Brien’s Beacon Hospital to acquire Beacon Hotel
- Commercial Property
- November 13, 2020, 06:00
The owners of the Beacon Hospital are closing in on the acquisition of the neighbouring Beacon Hotel at Sandyford in south Dublin. The deal, which is(...)

Virgin Media unveils new entertainment platform
- Technology
- October 1, 2020, 12:43
Virgin Media has launched its new entertainment platform, TV 360, overhauling its current TV offering. The TV 360 platform includes voice search and(...)

Virgin makes gigabit internet available across its service
- Technology
- August 20, 2020, 00:02
Virgin Media is making gigabit internet available to almost 1 million homes across the country as it switches on the service throughout its network. (...)

Online fitness boom helped data use surge 40% in lockdown
- Technology
- July 29, 2020, 15:21
Broadband played a significant role in supporting the physical and mental wellbeing of people during the Covid-19 lockdown, a new study suggests. Da(...)

Five-star hotels scramble to retain luxury experience under new anti-virus regime
- Transport & Tourism
- June 12, 2020, 05:30
The new Fáilte Ireland operating guidelines for hotels released this week will pose specific challenges for Ireland’s 36 five-star properties, which j(...)

Rooms with a view: Westin goes big on comfort and privacy
- Transport & Tourism
- August 22, 2019, 05:45
The five-star Westin Hotel in Dublin has added 19 new double rooms above the neighbouring AIB branch on Westmoreland Street as part of a €5.5 million (...)

Glenlo Abbey’s pre-tax profits more than doubled in 2017
- Transport & Tourism
- April 30, 2019, 05:01
Pre-tax profits at the five-star Glenlo Abbey hotel on the outskirts of Galway city more than doubled to €529,661 in 2017. The hotel is part of the M(...)

‘I thought he was dead’ says mother of boy (2) hurt in hit-and-run
- Irish News
- March 29, 2019, 13:31
The mother of a boy (2) seriously injured in a hit-and-run in Cork earlier this week has spoken of how she feared her son had been killed when she saw(...)

John Malone consortium buys Powerscourt hotel for about €50m
- Transport & Tourism
- March 27, 2019, 14:44
A group that includes US cable television tycoon John Malone has agreed a deal to buy the five-star Powerscourt Hotel in Enniskerry from a company con(...)