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Foras Na Gaeilge is currently supporting small and medium sized enterprises to use and produce visible Irish or Bilingual material. Applications are now being taken for the 2013 Bilingual Business Materials Scheme. Match-funding is available to the maximum of €500 for Paper Bags. For example: Total Order €900 = Grant Aid €450. Who can apply? Small and Medium sized commercial enterprises. There is no need to translate the business brand name. The aim of this assistance is to enhance your current service / product brand through complementary use of Irish. Bilingual materials will generally have English and Irish side-by-side on…

Barry Packaging is delighted to be able to make this donation to the Irish Cancer Society on behalf of their customers who got behind our Pink Ribbon Carrier Bag Campaign. The Campaign has been run for 2 years and we are delighted to have raised €4,500 from the Sale of our Pink Ribbon Carrier Bags. Over 20,000 Bags have been sold since September 2011. Eamonn Barry, Managing Director, Barry Packaging said, “Action Breast Cancer is a charity close to everybody’s heart and we are delighted with the response we received from our customers over the last 2 years. We wanted…

Since the economy took a nose dive in 2008, many small business owners have grown accustomed to the feeling that this is a terrible climate in which to run a successful business – and small businesses are among those being hit the hardest. These small, family owned and locally operated businesses tend to be disproportionately hurt because of the spread of larger organisations throughout the community, which often offer cheaper, name brand products that ultimately put the smaller guy out of business. While competition between large companies and small businesses is an issue that raises many deep, moral and political…

Donations made during 2012: •Act for Meningitis •Action Breast Cancer •Headway Brain Injury •Brothers of Charity Galway •Autism Ireland •Children to Lapland Kerry •Dingle New Years Eve Fireworks Display •DBS Fashion Show •Longford Womens Link •Cancer Research Wales •Enable Ireland •Mallow Search & Rescue •UK Friends of Derby Hospital •Irish Heart Foundtaion •Castleisland Day Care Centre •Team London Bridge •Austin Stacks GAA •Kerry Christmas Appeal •Friends of Kerry General Hospital •Society of St Vincent de Paul •Fenit Summer Festival •Kerry Cancer Support Group •Sr Concillo Fund •Pharmacy Benevolent Fund •St Josephs Penny Dinners, Dublin If you are organising a charity…