Richard Commins

  Dublin is a city known for its lively nightlife and historic architecture, but it's also a financial powerhouse. Here, you'll learn all you need about Dublin's finance leader, Richard Commins . He is the finance leader for Greater Dublin and oversees a budget of €1.2 billion. He has been with the Dublin City Council since 1995 and has held various finance positions in the past, including controller and deputy chairman. In his current role, he is responsible for all aspects of financial management, including revenue generation, expenditure control and asset management. Richard Commins, finance leader of Greater Dublin Born in County Mayo, Ireland, Richard Commins first came to Dublin to study business at Trinity College. After completing his degree, he worked in several financial positions before joining the Dublin City Council.  His career highlights include developing Dublin’s credit rating and overseeing the council’s pension fund. He is a leading figure in Irish financ...

  Students at the National University of Ireland Galway created Project DASH (Driving All Students Home). It enables college students to call cabs without using cash, a bank card, or a phone. Since its introduction in Galway and Carlow, thousands of students and several taxi companies have signed up. Yesterday, Richie Commins , a senior at NUI Galway majoring in business information systems and the project's primary developer, visited UCC to introduce the program there. He said that the development of Dash began as an academic endeavor meant to address a concern raised by other students. 'Extensive investigation into catastrophic instances revealed that many occur late at night when students travel on foot,' he added. We invested a lot of time and effort into designing and testing the service before its official release. This initiative aims to increase the presence of taxis on college campuses around the nation so that students may more easily get one in an emergency. Sign...

Project Dash Project Dash (Driving All Students to Home) was designed through collaboration between NUI Galway students. Students can use taxis even without money, credit cards, or mobile. A significant number of students from universities, as well as taxi firms, have signed up to make use of the services since the program was implemented during the time that it was in Galway and Carlow. Richard Commins , a final-year student of business information systems at NUI Galway who led the project's creation, was at UCC today to participate in the launch of the initiative. The professor explained that Dash was initially conceived as a college assignment to help the student solve his problem. "After an exhaustive study of the tragic events that occurred over the years, the author revealed that most of them are at night and occur as students walk along the street," he said. "We have spent significant time developing, testing, testing, and evaluating the system before the offi...