Irish High Court Lifts Suspension of Translation Service Contract
The contract for the provision of interpreters to the immigration service and the Legal Aid Board in Ireland can now push through.
The contract for the provision of interpreters to the immigration service and the Legal Aid Board in Ireland can now push through.
Ireland’s central procurement agency awards over 20 contracts worth up to EUR 5m to 13 individual providers. Part of tender specifically crafted to allow buyers to use freelancers directly.
Irish language service provider Word Perfect goes to court over contracts awarded by rotation, artificially low rates, but High Court allows request for tenders to proceed.
After upgrading Irish to official language status and embarking on a mid-2016 hiring drive, European Union fails to attract talent it needs to make it a full-fledged working language.
European Personnel Selection Office launches hiring process for 62 Irish linguists; application deadline July 12. Move comes after roadmap to upgrading Irish to full official EU language status was announced in December 2015.
Irish Language Solutions Provider, TRANSLIT, has expanded their operations to the UK after the successful launch of their new app last month.
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, rose to 110.24 in March 2020.
Ireland and the EU hope their support for Irish education and professional training will pay off with enough Irish translators to allow the EU’s Irish derogation status to expire in 2022.
Dublin-based Word Perfect Translations challenged the awarding of an interpreting services contract to Translation.ie. The Supreme Court sided with Word Perfect.
Translit, a 10-year old Irish language service provider, secured EUR 0.5m in funding from local investors and will use the funds to build its own interpretation platform.
The final ruling settles the legal challenge posed by Dublin-based Word Perfect Translation Service Ltd. to a contract awarded to a rival LSP for the supply of state interpreters to the state immigration service in 2016.
Vistatec, Moravia, Welocalize, and Sajan among 19 industry partners expected to fund more than half of Ireland’s investment in digital content technologies.
Sales and marketing veteran Brian Coyle started this October 2015 as KantanMT’s new Chief Commercial Officer.