Dublin and Cork-based international project management, engineering and architecture firm, PM Group, has won three major contracts with a gross capital value of around E250m in Singapore, China and India, reports businessworld.ie.
The announcement was made during the recent Interphex Asia exhibition in Singapore where 10 Irish companies were represented at the Enterprise Ireland pavilion.
PM Group said that the first contract is the project management, design and construction for a new secondary pharmaceutical technology centre at Singapore's Nanyang Polytechnic. The second is project management for a confidential multi-national client on a new research and development campus in China (awarded together with M+W Zander), and the third is to develop Intas Biopharmaceuticals' new large scale monoclonal antibody facility in Ahmedabad, India.
Patrick ‘Dutchy’ Holland has died in a British prison where he was serving an eight year sentence for his role in a plot to kidnap a businessman and hold him to ransom for £10 million, reports the Irish Times.
He was found dead in his cell in HMP Parkhurst at around 6am today and while a post-mortem has yet to be carried out, it appears that he died from natural causes. “As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will conduct an investigation,” the UK prison service said in a statement.
Holland had been named in the Special Criminal Court in 1997 as the man whom gardaí believed shot Veronica Guerin but he has never been convicted of her murder. He lived much of his life in Dublin's north inner city and Finglas.
A three-foot snake could be slithering around the streets of Dublin today after it vanished in a house burglary.
The bull snake, which is green in colour with black spots on its back, was either taken or escaped from the owner’s home in the North Strand area between 8.15am and 5.45pm yesterday, according to breakingnews.ie.
Gardaí said the reptile is not venomous, but stressed that if it is cornered the snake will strike out to defend itself and may cause injury.
Dublin and Cork-based international project management, engineering and architecture firm, PM Group, has won three major contracts with a gross capital value of around E250m in Singapore, China and India, reports businessworld.ie.
