LIMERICK based law firm Patrick P. Geaney Solicitors with their head office in Adare, have expanded their operation to include a Dublin branch office at Clontarf, Dublin 3.
Over the last 15 years, this firm has grown rapidly and now has its sights set as becoming one of Limerick and Dublin’s leading small firms
Niall Geaney credits the move to “professionalism, strong ethical values and excellent client care being the firm’s main objectives”.
The firm is managed by Patrick Geaney who is primarily based in the Limerick offices with the Dublin offices being managed by Niall Geaney.
The firms main areas of legal practice are Residential and Commercial Property, Commercial Debt Collection for small and medium sized enterprises and general private client legal advice such as Probate and Wills, Civil Litigation, Family Law and Employment Law.
A NEW survey by ISME confirms that the overwhelming majority of small and medium-sized business owner-managers have no faith in NAMA as a vehicle to increase lending to cash-starved businesses.
Only one in ten believe that NAMA will make a positive difference to bank lending, it found.
According to ISME, Chief Executive Mark Fielding, “Businesses do not believe that NAMA and recapitalisation will act as a means of opening up business credit lines, contrary to the Government’s view. The reality is that 80pc of companies have already confirmed that the banks are making it more difficult to access credit, with 55pc of businesses recently being refused loans. This is in spite of the banks commitments, as part of the NAMA process, to increase lending capacity to SMEs by 10pc over 2008 levels. In fact the opposite has occurred”.
A COUNTY Wicklow mother of two children who both have autism, Lisa Domican, has today launched a new iPhone application (app) that she hopes will help similar children better develop their communications skills.
The app, which has already been successfully trialled in the Saplings school in Rathfarnham for children with autism, is called “Grace” (named after Lisa’s daughter) and is based on the principle of picture exchange communication. It has been developed by Lisa in conjunction with software developer Steve Troughton-Smith, and with the support of Telefonica O2 Ireland.
The new app is designed to be used in a similar way to how the existing Picture Exchange Communication System is used by parents and tutors of children with autism – allowing them to build sentences using a book of laminated pictures attached to a board by Velcro. As the child learns new words through pictures, they are added to the book, reflecting the child’s growing vocabulary. However, while the existing system is very effective in the home or classroom, it is not very portable for everyday situations outside of these settings.
