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'Vitality Expo' for RDS

Vitality Expo – a new event billed as Ireland’s largest natural health and wellbeing show – will take place at the RDS Dublin on 8th and 9th September, with 8,000 visitors expected to attend.

Experts on natural health, wellbeing, nutrition and natural skincare will speak at the show, which will also feature 160 exhibitors showcasing the latest products and innovations in the sector. Speakers will include former model Alison Canavan, who now works as a wellbeing coach, author and motivational speaker, nutrition expert and pioneer in the development of nutritional therapy, Patrick Holford, fitness expert, charity activist and founder of BodyByrne, Paul Byrne and chef and cookbook author Oliver McCabe.

Manager wins dismissal claim

A married store manager at a restaurant chain admitted to an investigator that he offered accommodation to female staff members in order to have sex with them, the 'Irish Independent' reports today..

The un-named restaurant chain summarily sacked the man for gross misconduct after concluding that he engaged in sexual harassment.

The man sued for unfair dismissal and the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered the employer to pay the man €6,500 after finding that his dismissal was unfair.

A WRC Adjudication Officer found that the man’s conduct amounted to sexual harassment and that the dismissal was substantially fair.

However he also found that the restaurant chain’s handling of the dismissal from a procedural point of view “was hopelessly flawed” rendering the dismissal unfair.

Donegal Tees Up for 'Open'

With the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open fast approaching and 100,000 visitors expected to descend on Donegal for the event, Fáilte Ireland is

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helping local businesses get ready with three Irish Open Service Excellence Charter workshops taking place over the last two days (19th and 20th June) in the Inishowen Gateway Hotel in Buncrana, the Strand Hotel in Ballyliffin and the Redcastle hotel in Redcastle.

Edward Meade, Failte Ireland is pictured with Donegal Businesses who are teeing Up For the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open

The fully subsidised workshops were centred on Fáilte Ireland’s Irish Open Customer Service Excellence Charter, which aims to act as an assurance to visitors coming to Donegal for the event that local businesses in the area are committed to ensuring they enjoy a comfortable, safe, informative and memorable experience, which represents good value for money.

Fáilte Ireland’s Head of the Wild Atlantic Way, Miriam Kennedy, said:

Winning Oz Agents Visit

A group of Australian travel agents is visiting Ireland this week. They are here as guests of Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland and Australia

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n Pacific Touring (APT), a leading tour operator. The travel agents all won the opportunity to travel to here – and to try out the brand new ATP island of Ireland tour.

Pictured are travel agents Sonja Bomhof (from Queensland), Pina Gianfrancesco (Western Australia), Karen Newbury (Australian Pacific Touring), Emma Atchison (Victoria) and Amanda Fricker (South Australia), at Shankill Castle near Paulstown, Co Kilkenny.

Belfast Grand Central Opens

The £53m Hastings Grand Central Hotel, the largest and most expensively constructed hotel project ever seen in Northern Ireland has

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.Residents of Belfast have watched over the past two years as Windsor House has been transformed from an office block to the key feature on Belfast’s skyline, with its Seahorse logos and charcoal panels visible across the city.

The 300 bedroom hotel features “double height” space on the ground and first floor levels.

Suites have been named after Linen Barons who first occupied the Linen Quarter in which the Grand Central sits, and Sir William Hastings, the founder of the Hastings Hotels Group.