Sean Canney TD, Minister of State for Natural Resources, is pleased to announce that Golder (Ireland) has become the latest member of Geoscience Ireland (GI).

Golder is a leading, specialized, global employee-owned engineering and consulting firm with over a half-century of service to its clients. Golder’s 6,500+ professionals offer unique skills to address the ever-evolving challenges that earth, environment and energy present to clients and their projects across the world’s major industries.

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On Monday, the 7^th of January, the Minister of State at the Department of Education with special responsibility for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD met with representatives of the GeoDriller Apprenticeship consortium at an event in Institute of Technology Carlow. Minister Mitchell O’Connor stated, “I commend the work which has been completed to date on the development of the State’s first dedicated apprenticeship for the development of the Irish drilling industry. I look forward to it being rolled out in June 2019. This will give opportunities to intending apprentices to pursue interesting careers and attain highly paid jobs. This is one of the many new professional apprenticeships that is being developed for industry.‘’ Read more →

Anglesey Mining plc announced a Project Development and Cooperation Agreement with QME which will assist the development of the Parys Mountain copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver project, located on the island of Anglesey in North Wales. Read more →

Geoscience Ireland (GI) members scooped awards at the ninth Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards. The Kerry Central Regional Water Supply Scheme by Irish Water, in association with TOBIN Consulting Engineers, Nicholas O’Dwyer and Glan Agua picked up the award for Engineering Project of the Year. Read more →

Enterprise Ireland (EI) hosted its International Markets Week (IMW) bringing to Dublin key representatives from its 33 worldwide offices. The annual event took place at the RDS, Dublin, 16th-19th Oct. Read more →