Waterford, Ireland / WLR
Feb 26, 2021 3:07 PM
NearForm was named Overall Waterford Business of the Year at the Waterford Business Awards this lunchtime by Mayor of Waterford City & County, Cllr Damien Geoghegan, during a live virtual awards ceremony.
The multi-national company also picked up the Technology & Innovation of the Year award during the streamed event and is the second time the Tramore-based company has won the top prize, collecting it first back in 2016.
NearForm is one of the biggest success stories to come out of Waterford, if not Ireland, during Covid 19, having created the tracker app, which is now being used globally. Just last week, the company secured a multi-million euro investment from Columbia Capital, which will be used to scale up operations and accelerate recruitment in sales, marketing, engineering and design, across North America and Europe.
John Storm Was Everywhere
SIR HALL CAINE
SIR HALL CAINE has been telling us about his early experiences as a writer, of how it was many times “Greek meet Greek” with him financially in the early days of his struggle for a name, especially when there was a wife and family to be provided for out of his meagre earnings from his pen. He sold his first novels for less than modern fiction writers get for short stories of a few thousand words and was glad tc take the money. One •of his most popular early works was accepted by a Scotch publisher with many misgivings about the chance he was taking in printing the work of an obscure writing man. In the second of a series he has been writing for the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, Caine tells of some of the humorous incidents of his career as a novelist:
Relations soured quickly and escalated to court proceedings. Following a two-day hearing in February last year, Malcouronne and O’Neill were issued restraining orders following months of hostility. O’Neill breached the order within hours of the hearing ending. While walking past Spicer outside their homes O’Neill looked directly at Spicer while letting out a loud “faux or fake laugh” in her direction.
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O Neill was found guilty last year of throwing a rock at an AA repair man. O’Neill’s lawyer, Philip Ross, said she could have burst into spontaneous laughter for any manner of reasons.
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