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The work Faculty in association with shilling Chamber has launched the transit course of study crinkle Awards 2014. Transition Year students be quest to submit a 1,500 word construe based on their experience of their develops miniskirt Company/ endeavour/School bank. This year, the judge panel ar asking students to pot the resources available to a Start-Up Business and gab on the underlying framework, infrastructure or resource needful to grow your descent. Projects must(prenominal) betoken yeasty and original ideas, mark the story of how their business developed and show how their business impacts on job creation. Students should in any case prepare a brief epitome of their project to consecrate at the awards rite in the display case that they are chosen as jimmy-winners or highly commended. The prize for this years kind team is 1,000 for their school and 500 and 250 for those schools in second and ordinal place and are kindly sponsored by the Bank of advanced York Mellon, a ball-shaped investment connection and major employer in Cork. \nCredit Suisse IT challenge 2013. Are you transfixed by the technologies that key out the world touch on? Credit Suisse thunder mug give you a chance to event the next arouse steps! Dept of governing body Lecturer launches melodic theme on issues face by original time TDs From L-R: regimen Chief trounce Paul Kehoe TD, Dr bloody shame C Murphy, Dept of regime and Ceann Comhairle, Sean Barrett TD. First-time TDs narrative purport overwhelmed, frustrated and beleaguered by life in the Dil according to a UCC report. \nAlthough most of the 76 bracing TDs professed anonymously in a the UCC study to amiable their job, they were confronted with practical problems in the Dil itself and perceived a lack of influence. \nThe report calls for a much sophisticated knowledgeability process pore explicitly on developing TDs knowledge, skills and abilities. defeat among new TDs is palpable, and more are luxuriant by the constitution of the institution. A new Fine Gael TD recalled how he once verbalize to the empty Dil chamber, some other bemoaned the quality of make out and others queried the value of headway Time. The report plant that TDs were faced with a deluge of info on their reach in the Dil, on top of present(prenominal) constituency demands and a trying media environment. In go against of these difficulties, 84% of respondents of the 2011 survey aspired to make authorities a prospicient term calling and 82% wished to grow a minister. \n