Samantha Kelly

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Make and mend: during our lockdowns people have been redesigning their clothes and making brand new fashions. Photograph: iStock
Lockdown is an opportunity to dust down our creative talents

Exercising the mind as well as my hands, back and dodgy knees, I took to the garden this week to clear the isolation cobwebs and switch off from the (...)

The slowdown - and the economic hit that came with it - highlighted how business is the engine of the economy. Photograph: iStock
Why choose a business course? Creativity, teamwork alongside enterprise

The shock of Covid-19 shut down businesses across the country. Many people were able to keep working from home, but hairdressers, restaurants and cafe(...)

‘Deaf people are still very much at risk because they have to rely on the interpreted HSE briefings for almost all their information.’
Coronavirus highlights continuing marginalisation of deaf community

If you’ve been watching the news on TV, you are likely to have noticed the presence of sign language interpreters alongside various officials at Covid(...)

Gavin Leonard with his three-year-old daughter Jade. Gavin tries to meet up with dad friends periodically but says ‘every time we try to arrange something, one of us will have an issue so generally we spend most of the time rescheduling’. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
The lonely, isolated and challenging lives of many parents

Ask any parent what the most difficult thing about parenthood is and an array of different answers is certain. Sleep deprivation, the struggle to jugg(...)

Elva Carri, Pamela Newenham and Áine Mulloy of GirlCrew: ‘We discovered many women in Dublin were looking to climb the career ladder, change jobs or set up their own business, and were unsure how’
Work it: The online networks putting women in the driving seat

Thanks to social networking there are plenty of ways to make contacts and connect without ever attending a real-life networking event. Think of the nu(...)

Nona Varimashivili got 32 days’ notice to leave despite having lived there since May 2014 and being entitled to notice of 112 days. Photograph: Donall Farmer
Family homeless over ‘tardiness’ of RTB and Garda failings

A Dublin family with two young children is homeless following an eviction due to failings of garda systems and “tardiness” by the Residential Tenancie(...)

Accounting Technicians Ireland president Dargan FitzGerald with Emer Duffy, lead sales manager, Sage, at the launch of ATI’s annual conference 2017, The Next Frontier. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography
Your Business Week: All the major events coming up

MONDAY Results: Kainos. Indicators: German consumer confidence (Dec); US new home sales (Oct). TUESDAY Results: Cranswick, Falcon Oil & Ga(...)

Samantha Kelly, Tweeting Goddess. Photograph: Eugene Hamill
‘Twitter is like word of mouth on speed’

Samantha Kelly creates a buzz around brands, which she calls it #Twittermagic! She focuses on the active influencers in each industry and aims to conn(...)

University Hospital Limerick: earlier this month there were 60 patients on trolleys in the emergency department and on general wards
HSE consultants running ‘caring’ seminars for staff paid €130,000 last year

The Health Service Executive paid a UK-based consultancy firm almost €130,000 last year to help develop a new communications strategy and promote beha(...)

The HSE hired a number of social media experts, including Niall Harbison. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
HSE hires food blogger and other social media experts

The HSE has hired a number of social media experts to advise staff in recent months, internal documents have shown. Food blogger and social media con(...)

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