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First Dates Ireland are on the hunt to find older daters to join the next series of the show! The hit Channel 4 series First Dates, has come to Ireland and RTÉ2. In First Dates, single people from across Ireland come to the First Dates restaurant where they have a real blind date.Joining maître D&#39; Mateo Saina, are barman Ethan Miles, and waiters Alice, Pete and Libby, who help set the scene and give romance the best possible chance to flourish.&lt;ad&gt;First Dates Ireland is filmed in Coda Eatery at The Gibson Hotel where every moment is captured by over 20 cameras in the first fixed-rig show of its kind to be made in Ireland.The singletons who visit the restaurant range in age from 20 to 70 plus. The unobtrusive cameras allow the daters to forget they are being filmed and start bonding... or not!Start your application <a href="https://cococontent.ie/productions#/firstdates/">here.</a>

First Dates Ireland are looking for single people to take part in the show

June is here, and with Pride Month comes all the fanfare surrounding the LGBTQ community that our underrepresented brothers and sisters deserve. What happens the other 11 months of the year, and which of the companies flaunting Pride Month ties truly put their money where their mouths are, though? These 12 companies support LGBTQ families year round, so they&#39;re a good place to start if you&#39;re a job-seeker or a supporter of this underrepresented community looking to show some social awareness with your hard earned cash.Aside from that, on this issue, it can be very difficult to keep track of the players without a scorecard. Thankfully, a little research can easily rectify that problem. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) releases an annual survey called the Corporate Equality Index that focuses on corporate policies and practices around the LGBTQ community including health care; corporate non-discrimination relating to gender, sexuality, and gender identity; supportive inclusion guidelines for transgender workers who are transitioning; a public commitment to LGBTQ equality; and traditional benefits including paid family leave extending to LGBTQ families. In the 2019 survey, released in March, 571 corporations and law firms earned 100 perfect scores.These 12 companies are not only among the HRC&#39;s 100 percent club, but they also make the top of the list on many other reviews.<h3>1. Accenture</h3>&quot;LGBTI inclusion is not only the right thing to do from an interpersonal point of view, it is also a business imperative because CEOs recognize that a culture of equality creates trust, innovation and therefore business growth.&quot; So says Sander Van &#39;T Noordende, Group Chief Executive Products, regarding this Irish company&#39;s commitment to the LGBTQ community. With its U.S. headquarters in New York City, Accenture has won awards for its LGBT Allies program, which pairs queer employees with mentors to help them negotiate the company&#39;s programs and support. Job search site FlexJobs reports that the company&#39;s specific focus on professional development and advancement among the LGBTQ community has helped users reach executive ranks at a more rapid rate.<h3>2. Apple</h3>With CEO Tim Cook — the first openly gay chief executive of a Fortune 500 company — at the helm, it&#39;s perhaps not surprising that Apple regularly hits the top of lists for LGBTQ-friendly places to work. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, the tech brand has earned a perfect score from the HRC for 15 years and first offered health care benefits for same-sex domestic partners more than 20 years ago, as The HR Digest reports. Among the additional benefits with special meaning for families, same-sex partners of employees receive six weeks of leave after the birth of a child.<h3>3. AT&amp;T</h3>Communications conglomerate AT&amp;T began prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ employees in its ranks way back in 1975 according to company records, and it has been ahead of the curve ever since. The company was one of the first in the nation to offer LGBT domestic partner benefits beginning in 1998, and now has the requisite full suite of benefits as with the other corporations on the HRC list. AT&amp;T also has an innovative supplier diversity program that enables selection of LGBTQ suppliers, which resulted in $14.2 billion in spending in that category in 2016 — a rising tide floats all the boats.<h3>4. Delta Air Lines Inc.</h3>Delta&#39;s LGBTQ community boasts about the strength it brings to its employee resource group, the Delta Employee Equality Network (DEEN), and the influence it has had on the company&#39;s policies including health benefits for same-sex couples. In the past several years, the company has won several awards for its treatment of its LGBTQ employees, including the AIM100 award from Affinity Magazine. Delta is also the official airline and sponsor of GLAAD, as well as seven events across the U.S. this Pride season.<h3>5. Google</h3>The tech giant celebrated Pride 2018 with their hashtag #ThisIsFamily that showcased their LGBTQ employees and their families and encouraged donations to GLAAD and PFLAG. This year, their site Pride.Google features a short film called Stonewall Forever and a rundown on the State of Pride. Also this year: Google is getting a lot of flak for failing to kick hatemongers, like those who foment bullying and assaults against the LGBTQ community, off of YouTube. However, like AT&amp;T, Google carries extra street cred as a founding member of a prestigious global coalition of companies showcased byFastCompany in 2015 when they convened with the mission of advancing LGBTQ equality in the workplace.<h3>6. Hyatt Hotels</h3>This Chicago-based hotelier is also a global employer and was named to the 2018 FORTUNE World’s Best Workplaces list, their fourth straight appearance on that roster — thanks to benefits which of course extend to their LGBTQ staff. For those who like to travel, Hyatt&#39;s perks extend to complimentary and discounted stays at properties in 56 countries worldwide, while they also include paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child, and even extend to financial assistance for adoption.<h3>7. JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co</h3>A long list of banks made the HRC list. This one earned a perfect score for its LGBTQ policies both this year and last year and is also ranked number 20 on the FORTUNE 500. The company actually pioneered an effort with the HRC in 2014 to study LGBTQ-led families, forming a working group within the company specifically to support this constituency. Additionally, it prioritizes LGBTQ representation in senior management and supplier diversity — the latter detailed by Business Equality Pride magazine — and reinforces its commitment to the community by sponsoring an impressive array of Pride-related events in communities nationwide.<h3>8. Johnson &amp; Johnson</h3>This health and personal care products company goes above and beyond for all employees starting a family: Headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the company offers assistance with fertility treatments, surrogacy, and adoption, followed up by a generous helping of parental leave. The company operates six child development centers on its campuses worldwide as well as providing a discount through KinderCare, a national childcare provider here in the U.S. The cherry on the sundae is their Care with Pride initiative that helps support and &quot;openly champion love, equality and care for all people within the LGBTQ community,&quot; according to the program&#39;s website.<h3>9. Netflix</h3>It&#39;s worth writing about streaming service Netflix for their parental leave policies alone: Salaried and hourly employees who&#39;ve adopted or given birth to a baby can take up to a year off at full pay, and naturally that applies equally to same-sex families. Like many tech companies, Netflix has provided same-sex employee partners access to the same benefits as other domestic partners for nearly 20 years, says Mashable.<h3>10. Salesforce</h3>Marc Benioff, Salesforce&#39;s CEO, was honored by GLAAD in 2016 for his public and outspoken fight against anti-LGBTQ laws, as reported by Medium. Benioff&#39;s passion extends throughout the company he leads, putting the company&#39;s resources at the service of getting states and municipalities to roll back legislation involving issues like sales of wedding cakes to gay couples and the use of preferred bathrooms by transgender individuals. As such, while the company, headquartered in San Francisco, has all the benefits that the HRC survey measures — they&#39;ve earned their perfect score, just like all the others on this list — their agenda also includes a unique focus on impacting the standard of living for LGBTQ families beyond their employees.<h3>11. Target</h3>With more than 1,800 stores across every state in the U.S., Minneapolis, MN-based Target has the opportunity to impact a lot of LGBTQ families. Although there&#39;s been an on-again, off-again bumpy relationship between the retail giant and the LGBTQ community — this story from CBS gives a brief rundown of the history between the two sides — it has since cleaned up its stance in this area to earn its perfect score. Its embrace of LGBTQ society includes mirroring families in its advertising — for example, for its popular wedding registry.<h3>12. Uber Technologies, Inc.</h3>Despite having attracted some bad press lately for its treatment of drivers in the field, Uber puts the &quot;ride&quot; in Pride when it comes to its corporate employees by helping others outside the company&#39;s ranks get in on the equality: Like Salesforce, it has institutionalized the promotion of LGBTQ causes in the communities it serves. The San Francisco-based organization shares something in common with other tech behemoths included in the HRC list in that it offers a generous leave policy for new parents: As Vox reports, it&#39;s 17 weeks for the primary caregiver, and six weeks for the secondary caregiver.

Happy Pride! 12 Companies That Support LGBTQ Families All Year Round

SELF-EMPLOYED WORKERS WILL soon be able to access jobseeker’s benefit after a new bill gained Cabinet approval this week. In April, the government promised to bring forward legislation to provide self-employed workers with a jobseeker’s benefit scheme.This followed on from the government announcing in Budget 2019 last October that self-employed people would be able to receive jobseeker’s benefits if they’re out of work. However, as Budget 2020 approaches, the new provisions have not yet been rolled out. Today’s announcement of the new scheme sets out that self-employed people will be entitled to benefits beginning in November.&lt;ad&gt;The publication of the bill today following Cabinet approval means the Oireachtas will soon vote on whether or not it should become law. Under the scheme, self-employed people will be eligible for €203 a week – this means that they’ll be receiving the same as other workers. The government expects that the new scheme will cost at least €31 million in 2020. Under the scheme, someone cannot work in any self-employed capacity and receive jobseeker’s benefit. Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, said that the self-employed will now be provided with “breathing space and support” if they find themselves out of work. “When the economy crashed in 2008, many suffered. Self-employed traders such as plumbers, electricians and painters all around the country suddenly found themselves with no work and with very little support from the State. This Bill seeks to rectify that situation,” Doherty said in a statement.Jobseeker’s benefit will be paid for nine months to people with 260 or more PRSI contributions – the duration is reduced to six months for anyone with contributions below this number. Like other employees, self-employed workers will be able to access increases for dependents or children.  Original source <a href="https://www.thejournal.ie/self-employed-jobseekers-law-plans-government-4701856-Jun2019/?utm_source=shortlink">here. </a>

Government to go ahead for self-employed to access jobseeker's payments

<h2>A new local company which will research, develop and manufacture cosmetics and oils from hemp plants said it hopes to create 30 new jobs over the next three years.</h2>The company, deDanú Limited, is also seeking to encourage farmers in the Midlands to grow hemp as a viable alternative to more commonly-grown tillage crops.&lt;ads&gt;Athlone woman Leah Fletcher and her Canadian husband James DeMello are the couple behind deDanú Limited, which has established a 10,000 square foot pharmaceutical facility in Monksland Business Park.It plans to roll out its range of cosmetics and oils, made from hemp and other organic ingredients, to Irish pharmacies before the end of this year.The company currently has four full-time staff and has contracted nine farmers in the Midlands. It hopes to recruit manufacturing and quality assurance staff in August, and has plans to create 30 jobs by 2022.&lt;ads&gt;Ms Fletcher is a mamber of a new Hemp Working Group, supported by farmers&#39; bodies Teagasc and the IFA, and said she was working to &quot;position Athlone as an incubator and hub for cannabinoid and hemp research&quot;.She believes there are significant opportunities for Irish farmers in this sector.&quot;We live in a time of vast uncertainty,&quot; she said. &quot;With tillage crops not yielding positive results as before, and dairy farmers becoming increasingly frustrated with the industry, there is an urgent need for Irish farmers to proactively protect themselves against potential instabilities further down the line.&quot;Hemp is a renewable and robust alternative to traditional crops. It offers solutions to our challenges around carbon tax, and it fits in perfectly with the newly released Climate Action Plan.&quot;Our company, deDanu Limited is working to establish itself as a model and example of how industry can build a circular economy.&quot;&lt;ads&gt;She acknowledged that there had been a taboo around hemp, which is a strain of the cannabis sativa plant species, but said that when farmers learn about the plants they become more willing to get involved in growing them.&quot;Once farmers learn about the chemistry in the hemp plant - i.e. that it isn&#39;t going to get anyone &#39;high&#39; - and discover its potential for their farms they are eager to get involved,&quot; she commented.&quot;We are offering significantly more per acre for hemp than they would get for any other tillage crop.&quot;However, she said there were &quot;inconsistencies&quot; in the Irish system which the Government ought to address in order to support the sector.&quot;There are a number of inconsistencies across Government departments that need to be addressed in order to allow us attract national and international interest in Irish hemp,&quot; she commented.&lt;ads&gt;&quot;Policies between the Health Products Regulatory Authority, Customs, and the Department of Agriculture need to be streamlined.&quot;Additional hemp cultivars should be allowed in order to give Irish farmers the opportunity to compete on an international platform. This is a simple fix that would have huge economic benefit.&quot;In recent years Ms Fletcher&#39;s husband, James DeMello, has been working to help Canadian cannabis companies develop business plans, raise capital, advise management and build international business strategy.Last week, he was among the speakers at a hemp summit which took place in the Teagasc Research Centre in Ashtown, Dublin.Mr DeMello&#39;s speech gave his insight into the global marketplace to identify the research, innovation and job opportunities which he believes are available to Ireland in this emerging industry.&quot;Multi-disciplinary collaboration is vital in our industry and Ireland has the opportunity to be a major international player,&quot; he said.Ms Fletcher and her husband have also formed a separate company, Arbutus Health, with the aim of removing barriers to medicinal cannabis access for patients.Source: Westmeath Independent &lt;ads&gt;

New Athlone hemp company plans to create 30 jobs

<h2>Have you heard about Ireland&#39;s Seal Rescue Centre? They&#39;re looking for volunteers!</h2>Volunteers are the backbone of our Seal Rescue Centre. They help rescue and rehabilitate sick seal pups and return them to the wild; educate the public about seals in Ireland and their ocean environment; gain knowledge and responsibility and take home unforgettable memories! There are many different ways to volunteer with us.&lt;ad&gt;<h2>THE OPENINGS WE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE: </h2><ul><li>Internship Positions (minimum commitment of 12 weeks)</li><li>Local Animal Care Volunteers (minimum commitment of 4 hours a week for 6 months)</li><li>Tour Guides (minimum commitment of 4 hours a week)</li><li>Education, Events, and Fundraising Volunteers (no minimum commitment- called as needed)</li><li>Rescue Network Volunteer (positions available all over the country)</li><li>Maintenance Person (no minimum commitment - called as needed)</li><li>Assistant Manager (volunteer position - full time for 6 months)</li><li>Volunteer Coordinator Position (volunteer position - minimum commitment of 10hrs/week)</li></ul>&lt;ad&gt;The Seal Rescue Centre is completely volunteer run and relies on passionate people from all around Ireland and even the world to give up their time to come to Ireland to care for the seal pups in need. With their dedication and hard work our rescue centre has been able to rescue wildlife that would otherwise not survive.<h2></h2><h2>THEY ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS WITH SPECIALISED SKILLS INCLUDING: </h2><ul><li>Maintenance, construction, electrical, or plumbing skills</li><li>Lawyer, Accountants or Marketing</li><li>Fundraising or Event Planning</li></ul><h2></h2>&lt;ad&gt;Seals belong to a group of mammals called Pinnipeds, which means “wing-footed”. In Ireland we have two species of seals of the 33 species of Pinnipeds scattered across the world, the Grey seal and the Common seal. Seals are beautiful unique mammals that share their time between the land and the sea.Seals can be grouped into three categories, True seals (Phocids), Eared Seals (Otariids) and Walruses (Odobenids). Both the Grey and Common seals are known as True seals. The main difference between True and Eared seals is that True seals lack an external ear, they just an opening on the side of the head. True seals are also clumsier on land using their bodies to bounce along the ground, whereas eared seals are able to use their larger flippers as limbs to walk on. Walrus are the only remaining members of the Odobenids and are easily recognised by their characteristic tusks.<h2>IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT VOLUNTEERING FEEL FREE TO CALL OR EMAIL ANYTIME!</h2>Emal: volunteer@sealrescueireland.orgPhone: 053 942 4980 (if there is no answer please leave us a message)To apply for the volunteer positions above please <a href="http://www.sealrescueireland.org/volunteers">CLICK HERE</a> to download the application form. Thank you for considering giving your time to the seal pups! If you don&#39;t have time to volunteer but still want to help, please visit our <a href="http://www.sealrescueireland.org/how-you-can-help-us/">HOW YOU CAN HELP PAGE</a>. &lt;ad&gt;<h1>INTERNSHIPS</h1>We offer several seasonal internships. We require a minimum of 12 weeks commitment for our internship positions. We expect our interns to be passionate and self motivated as the days are long, sometimes 9 -12 hours and the work can be tiring and dirty! For non-local interns, we also have housing options available at €90 a week. This includes bills, a bed in a shared room and meals.The Centre is located;<h3>Courtown Seal Rescue Centre</h3><h3>Courtown Harbour, Gorey </h3><h3>Co. Wexford</h3><h3>Ireland</h3><h3>You are invited to visit our hospital and see where the magic happens! Tours from 10AM - 6PM daily.</h3>&lt;ad&gt;If you have any further questions once reading through the descriptions feel free to contact us at intern@sealrescueireland.org<h2>APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE FOLLOWING INTERNSHIP OPENINGS:</h2><ul><li><h3>Animal care and Education Internship </h3></li><li><h3>Education Internship</h3></li><li><h3>Marketing and Media Internship</h3></li></ul>&lt;ad&gt;TO APPLY:Send the following documents to intern@sealrescueireland.org <ul><li>Cover Letter stating why you wish to intern and your dates of availability</li><li>Résumé/CV</li><li>Application form ( <a href="http://www.sealrescueireland.org/internships">DOWNLOAD HERE)</a> For the most conservation jobs, check out Conservation Careers</li></ul>

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<h2>An Post Job Loses</h2>The Cork Mail Centre in Little Island is to close with the loss of 216 jobs, affecting 240 people. An Post officials travelled to Little Island last night to inform employees that the closure of the sorting centre will occur on a phased basis between September 2019 and March 2020.An Post said the closure will result in annual savings of €11 million.In a statement, An Post said staff will be offered:<ul><li>Exit packages of six weeks per year of service, up to a maximum of two years’ pay.</li><li>Redeployment opportunities with An Post’s networks in the Cork area.</li><li>Further education/re-skilling grants of up to €3,000 per person.</li><li>Help to secure jobs with new employers; a Jobs Fair and outplacement support.</li></ul>Speculation around the future of the centre, one of four nationwide, has been rife for some time.The possibility of job losses was raised in the Dáil last November. Labour Party TD Seán Sherlock told the Dáil that he had been informed that the Little Island centre had been earmarked for closure.He warned that this would “have a devastating effect on postal services in the southern region”.He said such a move would be “unconscionable”. Last night, An Post said it was engaged with the Communications Workers Union (CWU) “to ensure the best possible outcome for all the CMC staff”.It said the closure of a mail centre was considered by the Labour Court in its recommendation of September 2017. However, the remaining three centres — Portlaoise, Athlone and Dublin — are unaffected.An Post said the Cork plant was “operating at below 25% capacity as mail volumes decline at around 7% per annum due to customers moving from the old world of letters to the new world of parcels and e-commerce”.The company said the €11m annual savings that will result from the plant closure “will enable An Post to invest more rapidly in its parcels infrastructure nationally, locally, and in the automation of parcel sorting”.It said parcel volumes have grown by 60% since An Post actively re-entered the parcels market in 2017. The statement said the company intends to invest €15m in parcels infrastructure across Cork City and the wider region over the next three years.Cork’s GPO on Oliver Plunkett St is due to undergo a major refurbishment and over 1000 parcel lockers will be installed across and city an county to make collection more convenient for customers. Of the 240 people working at the centre, two-thirds are employed on part-time basis.Employees were told the news at around 11pm last night when most of the staff were in attendance as mail is sorted overnight.Garrett Bridgeman, managing director of An Post Mails and Parcels, said it was “a very tough day for the staff at Cork Mail Centre who have delivered a consistently high level of performance over the years”.“The closure is simply due to the global trend of mail volume decline which has led to significant over-capacity in the mails system.“Our priority is to look after our employees who have given great service to An Post by providing alternative employment options, good redundancy terms, further education grants and active access to other employers,” he said.An Post CEO David McRedmond, said An Post was responsible for its own finances and had worked hard to return to profit and growth.“The company’s task now is to develop long-term sustainability. Closing the Cork letters’ facility is a tough but necessary step as we invest in the new world of parcels for our customers.“I want to be sure of two things: first, sustainability is about decent work and we will look after our employees as well as possible; and second, I want Cork to be the first city in Ireland to benefit from the new parcels infrastructure for customers.”<h2>Argos Job Loses expected - Cork</h2>Argos says that it is working to minimise the job losses associated with the closure of its store in Cork city centre.The UK retailer confirmed that its premises in the Queens Old Castle on Cork&#39;s Grand Parade will shut in November, just before the Christmas shopping season. It has traded in the building for more than 20 years.A spokesperson for the company, which is owned by Sainsbury&#39;s in the UK, declined to confirm the number of people working in the store but said that it will offer staff the chance to be redeployed to their nearby branches in Blackpool and Mahon.The spokesperson did not elaborate on the reasons for the closure but said that Argos &quot;regularly review our estate&quot;.&quot;Our Cork Queens Arcade store will be closing in November. We will offer colleagues the opportunity to redeploy to their nearest store where possible,&quot; a spokesperson for the company said.Argos was bought by Sainsbury&#39;s in a deal worth €1.4 billion in 2016.It was reported in January of this year that poor sales at Argos had dragged down its parent company&#39;s trading in 2018.Argos&#39;s struggles reflected those of other high street stores in the UK, where Debenhams, Mothercare and Marks &amp; Spencers are also reporting difficulties.Lawrence Owens, CEO of the Cork Business Association, described the news as &quot;very disappointing&quot; for retail in Cork city.&quot;Argos has a long tradition of trading in Cork - they have been at the Queens Old Castle for 20 years,&quot; he said.&quot;The most worrying element of this, of course, is for the employees whose jobs are affected.Hopefully, any losses can be kept to a minimum and there can be some element of redeployment to other stores. Even one loss is too many.&quot;Mr Owens said that the departure of Argos from the site could be &quot;a catalyst&quot; for activity in that part of the city.&quot;It could regenerate the entire area,&quot; he said.&quot;You already have long-standing businesses like Finn&#39;s Corner and O&#39;Leary&#39;s Centra, which are huge successes, there, and then Cornmarket Street is just around the corner and has a really strong hospitality offering.The historic Queens Old Castle survived the Black and Tans’ burning of Cork in 1920 and was once a Penneys. It was converted to a shopping centre in the late 1970s, with 37 different shops and restaurants occupying space in the building.It ran into economic difficulties in the 1980s and closed its doors.Clarendon Properties bought the site 1996. It was remodelled and reopened on December 4, 1997, by footballer Roy Keane, with two tenants: Argos and Virgin Megastore.Source; Irish Examiner

Disappointing Job Loses in Cork - 216 at An Post & Argos also closes

Working from home has got a bad rap. Many people seem to think it&#39;s a way to avoid hard work by getting out from under management&#39;s watchful eyes. Indeed, few pundits seemed to object when Yahoo, IBM, and Aetna rolled back their work-from-home policies.Indeed, working from home seems like heresy if believe in the &quot;collaborative, innovative workplace&quot; idea, or (as I call it) the &quot;let&#39;s-force-everyone-to-work-in-an-office-that-looks-like-a-hotel-lobby-from-outer-space&quot; management fad.Well, the Open-Plan Office Nazis have it all wrong, according to Stanford Professor of Economics Nicholas Bloom. (Kudos to Qz.com for calling my attention to Bloom&#39;s incredibly entertaining TED Talk.)In his TED Talk, Bloom explains that work-from-home is potentially as powerful and innovative as the driverless car. And he&#39;s dead serious.As evidence, Bloom cites a Singapore company where half of the staff worked from home for four days a week while the other half came into the office five days a week.The two-year study revealed that the employees who worked from home had a &quot;massive, massive&quot; (Bloom&#39;s words) increase in productivity--almost equivalent to an additional workday--primarily because of fewer distractions and fewer pointless conversations.The work-from-home employees also tended to remain in their jobs longer, thereby decreasing employee turnover, which (of course) drains management productivity and results in an expensive loss of skills and connections when an employee quits.Finally, the work-from-home employees were happier and therefore healthier, thereby reducing sick days and absenteeism (as well as people coming into work with contagious colds and flu), all of which decreased the company&#39;s overall health care expenses.The experiment was so successful that the company instituted work-from-home throughout the company, which also (as a side benefit) allowed the company to grow without adding expensive office space.These results echo a recent Gallup study showing that employees who work from home three to four days a week are far more likely (41 percent versus 30 percent) to &quot;feel engaged&quot; and far less likely (48 percent versus 55 percent) to feel &quot;not engaged&quot; than people who report to the office each day.So there you have it. Companies that are forcing employees to come into their glitzy but noisy and distracting open-plan offices would be much better off if they instead let their employees work from home most of the time.To which I say: duh.By Geoffrey James - Contributing editor, Inc.com@Sales_Source

Working From Home Makes You Happier and 'Massively' More Productive

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<h2>Robots are expected to take over some 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030, extending a trend of worsening social inequality while boosting overall economic output, a new study shows.</h2>The forecast set to be released today highlights growing concerns that automation and robots, while offering economic benefits, are disproportionately killing low-skill jobs and aggravating social and economic stress.The study by Oxford Economics, a private British-based research and consulting firm, said job displacement from the rise of robots will not be evenly spread around the world, or within countries.Robots have already taken over millions of manufacturing jobs and are now gaining in services, helped by advances in computer vision, speech recognition and machine learning, the study noted.&lt;ad&gt;In lower-skilled regions, job losses will be twice as high as those in higher-skilled regions, even in the same country, the study concluded.The research comes amid intense debate on the rise of technologies such as self-driving cars and trucks, robotic food preparation and automated factory and warehouse operations and their impact on employment.Many analysts point out that automation has generally led to more job creation than it destroys, but that in recent years the trend has created a skills gap that leaves out many workers.&lt;ad&gt;According to the latest study, the current wave of &#39;robotisation&#39; is likely ultimately to boost productivity and economic growth, generating roughly as many new jobs as it destroys.At the high end of the forecast, the researchers see a $5 trillion &quot;robotics dividend&quot; for the global economy by 2030 from higher productivity.&quot;We found that jobs where repetitive functions are required are most affected, with those such as warehouse work at imminent risk,&quot; the authors wrote.&quot;Jobs in less structured environments and which demand compassion, creativity or social intelligence are likely to be carried out by humans for decades to come.&quot;It added that &quot;robots will increasingly play in sectors including retail, healthcare, hospitality, and transport as well as construction and farming.&quot;&lt;ad&gt;The impact will be uneven depending on the country and regions within each country, the study said.&quot;Automation will continue to drive regional polarisation in many advanced economies - and this trend will intensify as automation spreads to services,&quot; the authors wrote.But they cautioned against policymakers acting to slow the adoption of robotic technology.&quot;Instead the focus should be to use the robotics dividend to help those in vulnerable regions ready themselves for the major upheaval ahead,&quot; they wrote. &quot;Preparing for and responding to the social impacts of automation will be the defining challenge of the next decade.&quot;Source of article; RTE.ie &lt;ad&gt;Read the Report here;<h1>How robots change the world</h1><h5>What automation really means for jobs and productivity.</h5><h5></h5><h5>Robots are increasingly capable of performing tasks that were previously relied on human hands. This robotic revolution is propelled by technological advances in automation, engineering, energy storage, AI and machine learning. Already, the number of robots in use worldwide multiplied three-fold over the past two decades, to 2.25 million.</h5>&lt;ad&gt;<h5>Trends suggest the global stock of robots will multiply even faster in the next 20 years, reaching as many as 20 million by 2030, with 14 million in China alone. </h5><h5>This increase will be challenging for governments and policy-makers as it will impact the economy, the workplace and society.As a result of robotization, tens of millions of jobs will be lost, especially in poorer local economies that rely on lower-skilled workers. This will therefore translate to an increase in income inequality. However, the rise of robots will also be beneficial in terms of productivity and economic growth, leading to the creation of new jobs.</h5>&lt;ad&gt;Since 2010, the global stock of robots in industry has more than doubled: as many robots were installed in the past four years as over the eight previous. Approximately every third robot worldwide is now installed in China, which accounts for around one-fifth of the world’s total stock of robots. Download the report to learn more.Source for original report findings; <a href="http://resources.oxfordeconomics.com/how-robots-change-the-world?source=homepage-hero">CLICK HERE</a><h5></h5>

Robots to take over 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030

<h6>Aer Lingus, Ireland&#39;s only four star airline is looking for future pilots from diverse backgrounds to meet our projected expansion plans. Aer Lingus will continue a long tradition of training ab-initio pilots with a fully sponsored and mentored Future Pilot Training Programme commencing in Autumn 2019.</h6>&lt;ad&gt;<h2>About the Programme</h2>Starting in November 2019, this intensive pilot training programme combines classroom study with practical flight training. You will also receive regular mentoring, guidance and support from your Aer Lingus Liaison Pilot.Successful candidates will begin a very intensive training program lasting over 14 months in collaboration with our preferred flight training school, FTE Jerez, Spain. Our future pilots will then return to Aer Lingus to commence a type rating course and begin a long career as a First Officer on our most modern Airbus A320 and A321 LR NEO aircraft in 2021.Competition is expected to be extremely high for a limited number of positions. Candidates are advised to apply early and prepare carefully.Aer Lingus is a Career Airline focused on the continuous training and development of their employees. We don&#39;t just recruit First Officers we recruit and train our future Captains for long and short-haul routes. If you have what it takes to succeed then why not choose Aer Lingus, Ireland&#39;s only four star airline. Smart chooses a career in the skies with a leading value carrier.&lt;ad&gt;<h2>Is this programme for me?</h2>Once you qualify you will receive a Multi Pilot&#39;s Commercial Licence and a position in the right hand seat of an Airbus Aircraft. When you return to Dublin you will be scheduled for the A320 Type Rating course lasting approximately 12 weeks where you will learn how to fly our modern fleet of aircraft across Europe. This is your chance to make a smart choice and let your career take off with Aer Lingus.<h2>What are we looking for?</h2>We are looking to attract talented people who are motivated, engaged and passionate about aviation. If you are technically-minded, mature, responsible and committed to succeed then maybe a career in aviation is for you. If you have excellent communication, problem-solving and teamwork skills, as well as an appreciation of the service our guests deserve maybe a leadership role with us can become the key to your future career plan. If that sounds interesting and Aer Lingus fits with your own values and attitude then apply today and kick start your career. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team of diverse and talented individuals who make our business a success. We are searching for candidates who are willing to balance a fast paced, technically challenging and dynamic environment, with safety and exceptional customer service.Now you can apply to join a really great team who have been connecting Ireland to the globe for over 80 years.&lt;ad&gt;<h1>Essential criteria for application</h1><h3></h3><ul><li>18 years of age on or before 1st January 2019</li><li>Fluent in written and spoken English</li><li>Eligible to live and work permanently in the EU</li><li>Up-to-date unrestricted worldwide passport</li><li>Able to pass an airport security vetting procedure, including a five-year background check*</li><li>Two verifiable references</li><li>Able to obtain an EASA / IAA issued Class 1 Medical, including successfully passing a colour blindness test. Please refer to www.iaa.ie prior to application to ensure you can meet all medical requirements in line with eyesight/colour blindness limitations</li></ul>*If you are a not an Irish citizen, you will require a current police disclosure certificate from your home country if successful*If you have resided outside the Republic of Ireland for six months or more, you will also require a current police disclosure certificate from that country/countries<h3>Minimum Educational criteria:</h3><ul><li>You must have passed your Leaving Certificate (6 subjects) or equivalent</li><li>You must have obtained O5 grades in English and Mathematics at ordinary level or H6 at higher level in the Leaving Certificate</li><li>You must also have a minimum of 2 higher level subjects with a minimum of H5 grades in the Leaving Certificate*Equivalent grades are as follows:</li></ul>Where the minimum Leaving Certificate or equivalent grades have not been met, you must have one of the following qualifications:<ul><li>A minimum of a Level 7 third level (ordinary degree) in any discipline</li><li>Completed an aviation-related apprenticeship</li></ul><h3>Key competencies and skills:</h3><ul><li>Excellent interpersonal skills</li><li>Flexibility and willingness to work unsociable hours at times</li><li>Strong communicator who acts with integrity</li><li>Well-developed decision making skills</li><li>Technical awareness</li><li>Strong team player with ability to build and maintain positive working relationships and demonstrate leadership qualities</li><li>Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills</li><li>Ability and motivation to achieve a consistently high level of performance</li></ul><h3>Next stages of the process</h3>&lt;ad&gt;All completed online application forms must be submitted by 16.00 GMT on Monday 8th July 2019<ul><li>No further applications will be accepted after that time</li><li>You will receive an email acknowledging that we have received your application</li><li>Applications will be screened</li><li>Candidates who progress through the screening will receive on-line assessments and will be given 72 hours to complete. It is in your best interest to complete the assessments as soon as possible. After this time the link will no longer be available</li><li>Shortlisted candidates will be invited to the group assessment stage which will be held in Dublin between Monday 9th September and Friday 20th September 2019</li><li>Please note that you will be required to provide copies of your Leaving Certificate or equivalent (including any third level degree or aviation related apprenticeship) to verify that you meet the essential criteria at the group assessment centre stage in Dublin</li><li>Candidates may also be asked to retake the online assessments during the assessment centre</li><li>Part of the selection process involves passing a Class 1 and a company medical</li></ul>Aer Lingus is an equal opportunities employerFor more information and to apply <a href="https://www.aerlingus.com/careers/careers-in-the-air/future-pilot-programme/?fbclid=IwAR07nmg2u7vjTyqpok_caTQR_UQSCyJxORCKLJIttuys2DrHd5EtGIxXutQ#/tab-1-introduction">CLICK HERE</a>&lt;ad&gt;

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<h2>The Government has promised to increase spending and cut taxes in the budget – if a ‘no-deal’ Brexit can be avoided.</h2>The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe outlined his plans in the in the Summer Economic Statement in this afternoon.He said Budget 2020 will look very different depending on the outcome of the UK’s exit from the EU – currently scheduled for October 31st.&lt;ad&gt;If the UK leaves with a deal, the budget could include a €700 mincrease in capital spending alongside tax cuts amounting to €600m.Should the UK crash out however, that money will be used to for social welfare and supports for industries that will suffer because of Brexit.&lt;ad&gt;Describing Brexit as an “economic and political event that has never happened before,” Minister Donohoe said failure to agree a deal could cut economic growth by up to 3.5%.Ahead of the announcement, Labour leader Brendan Howlin said Fine Gael was attempting to ‘mend its broken hand’ by promising spending increases.“It is quite clear that they have no reputation leftAd in terms of prudent fiscal management of the economy,” he said.“They have burned money on any of the major capital plans under their purview.“The Children’s Hospital; the National Broadband Plan and, by the looks of it, Metro North.”Minister Donohoe insisted the economy is “being well-managed and is in a very different place to where it was a decade ago.”Source; Today FM&lt;ad&gt; In other related news articles;<h1></h1><h2>&#39;Boris effect&#39; threat to jobs, tax cuts and your pension</h2><h2>Minister faces calculated guess on Brexit outcome</h2>Irish Independent Article;Boris Johnson’s elevation to UK prime minister will threaten the annual €5 boost to pension payments and promised income tax cuts.The frontrunner to take the keys of Downing Street has made a fresh “do or die, come what may” commitment to take the UK out of the European Union at Halloween.A disorderly Brexit will plunge the Irish economy into crisis and leave the Government scrambling to deal with the impact of 55,000 job losses.“We are genuinely at a fork in the road as a country from an economic point of view,” warned Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe.&lt;ad&gt;The Summer Economic Statement predicts that if a Brexit deal is secured the country’s finances will remain in the black next year, with €700m available for a tax and welfare package.However, if the UK crashes out of the EU, our Government plans to borrow billions in order to establish “automatic stabilisers” and help prop up businesses.Mr Donohoe has compiled two budget scenarios - but will have to make a calculated guess on the direction of Brexit ahead of October 8.The country is on course to run a surplus of €1.2bn next year. But if Mr Donohoe believes a no-deal Brexit is the most likely outcome he is prepared to borrow almost €5bn.He said the &quot;first priority will be how we can protect our country&quot;.Fianna Fáil has indicated it will drop its annual demand for a €5 hike to the old-age pension.Its finance spokesman Michael McGrath said: &quot;Under no circumstances will we put at risk the Irish economy and the public finances.&quot;He also said it would accept an abandonment of the Rainy Day Fund.&quot;In reality if you have a disorderly Brexit the train comes off the tracks you&#39;re not going to be looking at putting money into the Rainy Day Fund,&quot; Mr McGrath said.The likelihood of a no-deal Brexit spiked yesterday as Mr Johnson called on his Conservative leadership rival Jeremy Hunt to commit to leaving the EU on October 31 &quot;deal or no deal&quot;.&lt;ad&gt;Mr Johnson said the two men should agree that the revised Brexit deadline must be met &quot;no matter what&quot; in order to keep promises to the British people.Mr Hunt has suggested he could seek an extension in order to get a better Withdrawal Agreement but this approach is unlikely to be acceptable to the EU.The Summer Economic Statement warns of competing threats to the current good health of the State&#39;s finances.&quot;On one hand, budgetary policy cannot add &#39;fuel to the flames&#39; of an economy that is already performing at full capacity… On the other hand, the possibility of a disorderly Brexit presents a clear and present danger to domestic living standards,&quot; it says.There will be an extra €2.8bn available for Budget 2020 but pre-existing current and capital expenditure will eat up €1.9bn of this.Another €200m will be set aside to accommodate funding requirements for the rollout of broadband and overruns at the National Children&#39;s Hospital.&lt;ad&gt;In a best-case scenario, Mr Donohoe plans to run a surplus of 0.4pc of GDP.However, this will change to a deficit of between 0.5pc to 1.5pc if the new UK prime minister leads it out of the EU without a deal. This amounts to a negative swing in the region of €6bn.The SES sets out how tax cuts amounting to €600m next year could be achieved with the help of revenue-raising measures similar to this year&#39;s tourism VAT hike.It is the Government&#39;s policy to raise the point at which workers start paying the highest rate of income tax from €35,300 to €50,000 over a number of years.In the Dáil though, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admitted: &quot;That is not necessarily to say it can be started in the forthcoming budget, which will depend on other factors.&quot;Mr Donohoe said if the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is approved then there will be scope for tax cuts but if it isn&#39;t &quot;we will be mobilising all of our resources to support the economy and to support the hard-working families&quot;.&gt;ad&gt;Asked whether householders should start to tighten their own budgets ahead of Brexit, the minister said he believes people already are.&quot;While we&#39;re seeing the spend within the economy is very much in line with our budgetary assumptions, it&#39;s also the case that the kind of growth that we&#39;re seeing in the economy is lower than it has been in previous years,&quot; he said.Mr Donohoe added that the Government &quot;needs to be even more careful in terms of commitments that are given and expectations that are created&quot;.He reiterated that there will only be one Budget for next year, even if he predicts the wrong scenario.Source: Irish Independent&lt;ad&gt;

Gov promises tax cuts in budget if Brexit 'no-deal" is avoided

<h1></h1><h2>Dublin jobs: AMBER to create 350 new research positions at Trinity College Dublin</h2>AMBER, the Research Centre for Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research at Trinity College Dublin, has announced that it will create 350 new research positions over the next six years.The second phase of the centre was launched on Monday and will be delivered with the help of €40 million in international research funding between 2019 and 2025.During phase one of the centre between 2013 and 2019, AMBER generated 14,279 jobs nationwide.&lt;ad&gt;These jobs were in sectors such as biomedicine, pharmaceutical, energy and ICT.The work of AMBER sees new material and technology created to minimise environmental impact while building a sustainable future.The aim of the centre is to provide solutions for current environmental problems and address what needs to be done for the future.For example, their scientists pioneer new technology that reduce power consumption in electronic devices and data centres as well as enabling better batteries for energy storage.The creation of the new research positions will also strongly contribute to the Government’s Future Jobs Ireland initiative by promoting interest in ICT, manufacturing technologies and energy, thereby ensuring that the economy is well positioned into the future.&lt;ad&gt;Minster for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD said: “The second phase of AMBER will contribute hugely to the Government’s strategy to prepare now for tomorrow’s world, through plans like Future Jobs Ireland and Project Ireland 2040.&quot;The work done by AMBER previously has helped position Ireland as a world leader in research, further strengthening our global credibility across a number of different sectors.”Professor Mick Morris, Director of AMBER, said: “As part of AMBER’s second phase, the centre will demonstrate significant impacts which will benefit individuals, communities, organisations and society both in Ireland and around the world.&quot;We will do this by delivering world-class materials science research and forming strategic alliances with industry, as well as significant collaborations with leading academics and clinicians.&quot;The quality of our scientific research is critical for AMBER in attracting and sustaining long term engagements with industry, providing a skilled workforce competing for non-exchequer funding and tackling global challenges.”Source; Dublin Live&lt;ad&gt;Jobs; <a href="http://ambercentre.ie/people/#vacancies">http://ambercentre.ie/people/#vacancies</a>

AMBER to create 350 new research positions at Trinity College Dublin

Want to be part of the audience for the second series of Ireland&#39;s Got Talent? Here&#39;s your chance!Ireland&#39;s Got Talent is coming back to our TV screens and you could be watching all the action from the best seats in the house in the Helix DCU.Our all star judging panel Louis Walsh, Michelle Visage, Denise Van Outen and Jason Byrne will be auditioning talent from all around the country.&lt;ad&gt;To apply for audience tickets, simply email IGTAudience@kiteentertainment.com and a member of the IGT team will be in touch!Disclaimer: All information will be treated as private and in a confidential manner. Information is used for the purpose of ticket allocation and producing of Ireland&#39;s Got Talent. Email addresses and phone numbers are required as Kite Entertainment and Green Inc Film &amp; TV may contact applicants prior to ticket allocation in order to verify information and availability of the applicant and/or guests, as the case may be. &lt;ad&gt;Please ensure that the information given is correct to avoid disappointment. TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE AND ANYONE PRESENTING TRANSFERRED TICKETS WILL BE REFUSED ADMISSION. At the end of each season, all ticket application records are securely disposed of. CLICK THIS LINK; <a href="https://www.virginmediatelevision.ie/be-part-irelands-got-talent-audience?fbclid=IwAR39MgkvPyLksI5sJKT1-4ccLSusBFQvL_zu_JcBioeXe0et1UF5ReEwgDY"></a> <a href="https://www.virginmediatelevision.ie/be-part-irelands-got-talent-audience?fbclid=IwAR39MgkvPyLksI5sJKT1-4ccLSusBFQvL_zu_JcBioeXe0et1UF5ReEwgDY">APPLY NOW</a>&lt;ad&gt;

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Around 15,000 people with autism in Ireland could be suitable candidates for lots of jobs, particularly in the data analytics and tech sectors.Specialisterne Ireland is a specialist employment agency that helps people with autism to access employment, and helps employers recruit and retain people with autism.Autism is an invisible disability, and the challenges for someone with autism in the workplace are social and sensory.&lt;ad&gt;&quot;The sensory issues are the obvious ones like sound or bright lights,&quot; Peter Brabazon, CEO of Specialisterne Ireland explained. &quot;You can accommodate those, they&#39;re not big challenges. The main challenge is around their social understanding of a situation.&quot;A person with autism does not understand ambiguity, and instructions need to be clear. For example, if a colleague asks for a copy of a report, it is important that they are clear when they want the copy of the report. People with autism have a greater aptitude in STEM fields - science, technology, engineering and maths.Mr Brabazon would like to see people with autism get opportunities that play to their strengths. &quot;The world of data analytics is growing and we want to grow with it because people with autism work well in the sector.&quot;Specialisterne Ireland meets around 170 candidates a year, and has enabled around 200 people to access employment to date.The agency partners prospective employees with austim with companies. &quot;Our distinguishing feature is that we support those people in work on an ongoing basis, sometimes over five years later, because change, which happens a lot in tech companies, is often a challenge.&quot;At any one time, Specialisterne has 50 people on its books.&lt;ad&gt;Companies have been receptive to employing people with autism.&quot;A lot of organisations have diversity and inclusion programmes, and we help businesses understand autism, and we help them recruit the person, through an autism friendly recruitment process.&quot;Usually someone in a company takes the lead, because autism is very common, and they may have children who are autistic, or they might be autistic themselves and understand what we are trying to do,&quot; Mr Brabazon said.Specialisterne is the winner of the Diversity in the Workplace award from the Analytics Institute of Ireland.&lt;ad&gt;Source; RTE

People with autism could be suitable for data analytics & tech jobs 

Female pilots employed by Irish-registered airlines are being told to choose between having an abortion or losing work if they become pregnant, the Irish Air Line Pilots&#39; Association (IALPA) has claimed.IALPA president Captain Evan Cullen told an Oireachtas committee that it was &quot;a matter of fact&quot; that female pilots working as self-employed contractors with airlines registered in Ireland have had abortions to avoid losing out on future work.&quot;That is an absolute. They have a choice, you either terminate your employment under this type of employment or you terminate your pregnancy.&lt;ad&gt;&quot;You can&#39;t have both. So that is absolutely what goes on,&quot; Capt Cullen told the Oireachtas Employment Affairs committee.Asked at the committee if he knew of any specific cases of this having happened, Capt Cullen said: &quot;Female pilots have told me that they&#39;ve terminated pregnancies because they had no entitlement to maternity leave and therefore no guarantee of a job after they came back.&quot;Capt Cullen said that &quot;all Irish airlines&quot; are involved in hiring contract pilots but he did not name any company.He declined to expand on his remarks when contacted last night.&quot;I can only refer you to the transcript of the Oireachtas committee,&quot; he told the Irish Independent.The claims were described as &quot;horrifying&quot; by Solidarity TD Paul Murphy.Labour senator Ged Nash, a former junior employment minister, who had asked Capt Cullen about the matter during the Oireachtas hearing, described the revelation as a &quot;very sinister situation&quot; and said it shows the impact of so-called bogus self-employment on workers. &quot;Workers who are considered by their employer to be independent contractors while displaying all the characteristics of an employee are left without any entitlement to social protection or trade union representation in order to have their rights protected and vindicated,&quot; Mr Nash said.Asked to respond to Capt Cullen&#39;s remarks last night, Aer Lingus said the practices he described &quot;are not in any way representative of the practices carried out within our airline&quot;. A spokesperson added: &quot;When a female pilot becomes pregnant their medical clearance to fly is suspended under the requirements set out by the Irish Aviation Authority.&quot;&lt;ad&gt;It comes days after the emergence of the Majella Moynihan case.The former garda who became pregnant out of wedlock after joining the force in the 1980s claims she was shamed into giving up her baby son for adoption. Ms Moynihan, from Kanturk, Co Cork, was subjected to an internal Garda investigation and alleges she was threatened with dismissal.She has already received an apology from Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan, and her case was described as &quot;wrong on every level&quot; by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar earlier this week.It has been claimed that the then Garda commissioner, the late Larry Wren, succumbed to pressure from the Archbishop of Dublin not to dismiss Ms Moynihan as it would have led to other female gardaí going to the UK for abortions.But Mr Wren&#39;s son-in-law Joe McConville yesterday denied that the former commissioner would have allowed the Catholic Church to dictate Garda policy.&quot;The allegation doesn&#39;t sit with his character,&quot; Mr McConville told RTÉ&#39;s &#39;Liveline&#39;.Source: Irish Independent

Female pilots told to choose between abortion and losing out on work

RTÉ will be filming a new series in the Summer and would love if you could be part of the show. They&#39;re recording 4 episodes this summer (July 9th, 11th, 16th, 18th) that will air on RTÉ One in the Autumn and they&#39;d love you to be a part of this unique experience.Presented by world renowned Mind Magician and illusionist, Keith Barry, this prime time series will combine celebrity guests with live music, magic, mayhem and mentalism. This is a chance to see one of Ireland’s greatest entertainers in action up close and personal!&lt;ad&gt;The recordings take place at RTÉ Studios Dublin 4You must be over 18......They&#39; re creating a little bit of Vegas sparkle in the heart of Dublin and would require you to dress accordingly! Applicants will be asked to fill out a form - see link below.&lt;ad&gt;As the number of audience applications generally exceeds availability of seats RTE cannot guarantee that you will receive an offer of seats.If you are successful in your application, they will be in touch with you to confirm your seats. Successful applicants will be contacted by email.All applications forms will be held for the duration of the production of the show ONLY, all ticket application records are securely disposed of. <h2>ENTERTAINER</h2>As the world’s leading TV hypnotist, mentalist and brain hacker, Keith Barry has been blazing a trail across the globe for many years. His mind-blowing skills have been showcased in over forty international television shows, including his most recent series, You’re Back in the Room. The first hypnotism format on TV in the UK for several years, this show garnered huge audiences and proved to be a big prime-time hit for ITV.As well as his own hugely successful US TV series, Deception with Keith Barry, Keith has appeared many times on some of the most prestigious US shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Jimmy Kimmel Show and The Conan O’Brien Show. He has also brain-hacked many celebrities including Woody Harrelson, Bono, Nicole Scherzinger, Morgan Freeman and many more.&lt;ad&gt;One of Keith’s recent projects saw him working as chief mentalist and hypnotist consultant for the blockbuster movie, Now You See Me. Shot in New Orleans and Paris, it starred Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman, Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo and Michael Caine and grossed over $360M at the box office. His huge success in working extensively with Woody Harrelson, who plays a mentalist, ensured he was hired as chief magic and mentalist consultant for the sequel, Now You See Me – The Second Act. He worked on this for almost a year, through its filming in London and Macau.Keith has written, produced and performed many of his own stage shows in the last fifteen years and has sold out venues in the US, Australia, Canada, Spain, South Africa, the UK and of course his native Ireland. He has also recently presented his keynote speech ‘Mind Magic’ at places such as The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, The Pendulum Summit and The Dublin Tech Summit. Keith’s TED Talk has been in the top twenty-five TED Talks since 2008 and it currently boasts over twenty-five million views.A true master of his craft, Keith has gained many awards over the years, including ‘Best Magician in Las Vegas 2009’, as voted for by The Las Vegas Review Journal. He also received the very prestigious ‘Merlin Award’ for Mentalist of the Year in 2009, joining the ranks of past recipients including Penn and Teller, Paul Daniels and David Copperfield.Keith’s corporate entertainment show is designed to astound and amaze the assembled audience and also have them laughing until their faces hurt. During the show he will implant thoughts, extract thoughts, and influence the behaviour of the unsuspecting audience. No-one is safe!Link to Apply for Tickets; <a href="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-QthZXrFbUKaAMwjCXM8Xl_RdxJTPA5DungKHHvn8opUME1TRU1DN00zSjc3TUdJV0JVVUtYQzVJVy4u">CLICK HERE</a>&lt;ad&gt;

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