Wendy's International, Inc. today announced that it has named Paul Kershisnik as Senior Vice President of Marketing Strategy and Innovation, a new position, and Tad Wampfler as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management.

The longest running English speaking theatre festival in Europe is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Although exact details of the celebrations are still being finalised, the dates of the 50th Dublin Theatre Festival were announced today. From 27th September to 14th October 2007, Dublin will be alive with the very best of Irish and international theatre. Full details of the programme will announced later in the year.

The National Gallery of Ireland has this week acquired its first painting by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1889), 'View of Paris' (1886. Vue de Paris aux environs de Montmartre (oil on canvas, 45.6 x 38.5cm) was painted in the summer of 1886, just a few months after van Gogh moved to Paris, where his brother and art dealer, Theo, managed a gallery in the Boulevard Montmartre that dealt in Barbizan and Impressionist paintings.

The National Gallery of Ireland calendar 2007: 'A Time and a Place', has won an award for the best museum art gallery calendar in the UK's 'National Business Calendar Awards' at their prize-giving ceremony, yesterday (Thursday 18th January 2007) in the London College of Communication.

NCR Self-Checkout: First installation in new supermarket near Dublin

A major exhibition devoted to Irish social life over the past two centuries is open at the Millennium Wing of the National Gallery of Ireland, Sponsored by Key Capital Private and Deutsche Bank.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is admired as one of the great watercolourists, for his technique, imaginative response to nature and portrayal of the English and Continental landscape. His life coincided with the new status of watercolour and increase in its exponents.