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Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre has secured 77 new conventions during 2021, worth an estimated AUD$144m in direct expenditure to the Australian state of Queensland.

Brisbane, Australia has won the bid to host the International Population Conference in 2025 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Computer modelling congress to meet in Brisbane  Brisbane will be the host of the Asia Pacific Congress on Computational Machines (APCOM) in 2025. The event will be held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC). The team at BCEC collaborated with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), supported by Tourism & Events Queensland and Brisbane Economic Development Agency (Brisbane EDA) to secure the event for Brisbane. BCEC and Brisbane have secured 17 international meetings in the past 12 months across health, science, technology, agriculture, mining and so...

Updated / Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 12:31 Dublin are looking for an 11th successive Leinster football title All-Ireland champions Dublin will begin their quest for seven-in-a-row with a Leinster quarter-final clash against Wexford or Wicklow. Dessie Farrell's side are strong favourites to continue their domination of the province and will face winners of the first-round clash of Wexford and Wicklow, who met at the same stage last year with the Garden County running out five-point winners. Dublin are seeking an 11th successive Leinster title and racked up 5-66 in their three provincial outings las...

RTÉ Sport Journalist Wexford plan to "seek clarification" on the GAA's new rule that forbids more than one captain of a winning team being presented with a cup. The motion was passed without a vote at last weekend's virtual Congress, under emergency powers granted to Central Council during the Covid-19 pandemic. Matthew O'Hanlon is co-captain of the Wexford hurlers and raised the cup with Lee Chin after their first Leinster triumph in 15 years in 2019. The defender told RTÉ Sport that he struggles to see the logic in a change that GAA director general Tom Ryan described as being prompted...