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Nominations
sought for the Top 50
Businesses with Irish Awards 2008
Nominations
are being presently sought for businesses that use Irish in their
operations
for the 2008 Top 50 Businesses with Irish Awards. The awards
will be held
in the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin on May 23rd. Five awards will be
presented
on the day. People can nominate businesses at this webpage.
Top 50 Businesses with Irish Awards
The
Awards for The Top 50 businesses with Irish took place on the 1st June
in the Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin. Organised by the national
Irish
language newspaper LÁ NUA, and sponsored by
PriceWaterhouseCoopers and
Foras na Gaeilge, this was the second year of the Awards.
Interestingly, the Awards were not confined to Irish based
individuals
or companies with recipients from America and the Czech Republic
featuring.
Recognition
for the use of Irish in marketing in the private sector went to
Cantrell & Cochrane and in the public sector to
Iarnród Éireann
the latter in particular consistently pushing forward the use of the
language in many aspects of their business. In the
information
technology sector Gasta.ie a very useful search engine in Irish
received an award and artist Louis Mulcahy received an award for best
Gaeltacht business. Louis exports pottery around the world.
The
award for Entrepreneur of the Year Europus who operate bilingually and
produce subtitles for programmes on TG4. Fiontraithe le
Gaeilge, a
group set up to improve their business skills also received an award
for “Inspiring Entrepenurs”. Recognition was also
given to Michal
Bolesav, a Czech national and computer graduate who has learned Irish
and was a technical advisor to the monthly Irish language internet
magazine Beo.ie.