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2 Tandem celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary. Thank you to our clients, some of whom have been with Tandem since its inception in 2010. Tandem will continue to deliver a best in class service to its valued clients and look forward to developing existing and new relationships on future projects. Looking to the future, Tandem is embracing opportunities to further enhance its services through digitisation and lean methodologies. Our long-term strategy will see the team steadily grow and our activities expand further into Europe. Carrigaline Court Hotel & Leisure Centre is delighted to receive several Irish Hotel Awards for 2020. In the National category, Jerry Healy won General Manager of the Year across all of Ireland! There were also wins for Kitchen Porter of the Year (Cosmin Trif; National Award)and Receptionist of the Year (Kate Goulding; Regional Award). The Carrigaline Court Hotel has also been awarded the Irish Hotel Awards ‘Great Place to Stay’ Quality Award based on their researchers visit to the hotel. 3 4 Cork-based PR agency, AM O’Sullivan PR Ltd., has won the inaugural PR Agency of the Year award. The awardwinning, strategic communications consultancy accepted the PRCA Agency of the Year Award (1-10 employees) at the Annual Awards for Excellence in Public Relations, held on-line for the first time due to COVID-19 restrictions, with an audience of over 320 people tuning in. Cork Craft & Design, Ireland’s largest social enterprise for craftspeople, has launched its exciting 2020 programme for Cork Craft Month this August. Celebrating contemporary Irish craft, over 50 masterclasses, craft trails, demonstrations, conversations and product launches, as well as virtual behind-the-scenes exhibitions, open studio tours and family-friendly activities are planned to date across the month, with an 80% increase in online events. Up to 90% of events will be free details available on

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Kearys Renault celebrates 10 years in Cork

Kearys Renault is this year celebrating its 10 th anniversary as the main Renault and Dacia dealer in Cork.

Kearys Motor Group joined the Renault family in 2010 with the Kinsale Road dealership, before launching Dacia and expanding into Midleton with a second dealership in 2012 and opening a standalone Renault Pro+ van centre on Sarsfield Road, Cork, in 2016.

Kearys Renault was named a ‘Dealer of the Year 2016’ by Renault during a prestigious awards ceremony in Paris, with more than 2,500 Renault dealers from 35 countries taking part.

Over the past decade, Kearys Renault has developed a number of key sponsorships in Cork. These include

Aonghus O’Duinnin, Sales Manager, Kearys Cork, Brendan Keary, Kearys Motor Group and Shane Cawley, Sales Manager, Kearys Midleton. motoring partner of Munster Rugby with Kearys Renault has exhibited at The Cork many entertaining player videos and Summer Show, supported the Better Life customer promotions. More recently, Cycle, Coachford and Ardfield Festivals, Kearys Renault Pro+ supplied the kit van as well as a number of Cork-based charity for the Cork Minor Hurling Team and events. Earlier this year, Kearys signed a has sponsored the jerseys for Douglas 3-year headline sponsorship with Cork Camogie and Goleen GAA Clubs, aligning Chamber promoting its range of electric with Renault Ireland’s sponsorship as vehicles and sustainable driving in Cork. the official car partner of the GAA. Also,

Charting a new course At the Chartered Accountants Cork Society Annual General Meeting, held virtually for the first time, Mr. Kevin Nyhan FCA, Credit Manager at AIB was voted in as the new Chairperson for the upcoming year 2020/2021. Mr. Nyhan expressed his enthusiasm for his new role and said: ‘Like every organisation, the Cork Society have had to deal with the unprecedented challenges presented by Covid-19. We must take this time as an opportunity to reflect and revaluate how we do things and challenge ourselves to develop new ways of operating.‘ I intend to use my term to continue to represent chartered accountants and to be an advocate for the skills and experience that we contribute to our community as we recover from the impact of Covid-19.’ A Fuzion of Talents at Triskel Triskel are delighted to announce the appointment of Deirdre Waldron to the board of the Arts Centre. Founder of Fuzion Communications, Deirdre is one of Ireland’s leading communications consultants with more than 25 years’ industry experience in the UK and Ireland. In 2016 Deirdre was appointed President of Network Ireland, an organisation driving the personal and professional development of women. She is also on the board of Cork Chamber and the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland.

New Ventures at Tyndall Tyndall are delighted to welcome Peter Finnegan to the commercial team in the newly created role of New Ventures Manager. This is a key appointment for delivery of entrepreneurship and innovation objectives under Tyndall 2025. Peter will be responsible for driving Entrepreneurship and New Ventures across Tyndall, in cooperation with the research and operations centres in Tyndall, our colleagues in UCC Innovation, and our external entrepreneurship partners. He will also take up responsibility for management of the ESA BIC, bringing a unified focus to that centre’s development under Tyndall 2025.