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SKILLS training is crucial to achieving a just transition from peat to a green economy in Offaly and the wider Midlands, a leading manager with the Laois & ...
Burning Question: what does a peat-free future hold for the Midlands? Trinity College Dublin PhD candidate Jamie Rohu outlines the challenges for workers as we transition our industrial bogs towards a more sustainable future. By Jamie Rohu Wednesday 14 Apr 2021, 8:00 AM Wed 8:00 AM 11,925 Views 20 Comments Jamie Rohu IN 2015, BORD na Móna reported in its Sustainabi...
Midlands Correspondent The building of the original Shannonbridge Power Station in Co Offaly in the early 1960s was the third major development undertaken in the midlands as part of the then government's vision for not only creating employment in the region but dealing with an international oil crisis. Authors Owen Denneny and John P Larkin, in their book 'A Path Through the Bog', published in 1995, said the late taoiseach Sean Lemass saw a solution that would resolve both the fuel and the job crisis. It was with this in mind that he had appointed a Board of Directors with Todd Andrews as...