The company was formed in 1984, as Bord Telecom Éireann, under the Posts and Telecommunications Act 1983.

Telecom Éireann was established by the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 ; its full formal title was Bord Telecom Éireann-the Irish Telecommunications Board.

This led after a report was delivered in 1979, to the creation of the ad-hoc Interim Board for Posts ( An Bord Poist ), chaired by Feargal Quinn, and the Interim Board for Telecommunications ( An Bord Telecom ), chaired by Michael Smurfit.

Bord Gáis operates a number of subsidiary companies BG CoGen and Combined Heat and Power business and Aurora Telecom a telco venture which is now a dark fibre leasing company.

It was the first domestic competitor to Bord Telecom Éireann ( now Eircom ) and, after initially reselling leased lines from that company, used " autodiallers " to route calls onto its network.

* Bord Telecom Éireann plc-listed on the ISE as Eircom plc ( now Eircom Group plc ).

* Bord Gáis, Bord Gáis Éireann, the Irish Gas Board

Bord na Móna has an extensive network, which has carried up to 5 million tonnes annually, and is larger than the main network ( passenger and freight ) operated by Iarnród Éireann.

Bord Gáis Éireann (, meaning " Gas Board of Ireland "), normally branded as Bord Gáis, is the main supplier and distributor of pipeline natural gas in the Republic of Ireland.

Bord Gáis Éireann was established as a semi-state company by the Irish government in 1975 to replace a series of private-sector small city-based gas companies, some of whom had got into financial trouble.

The company was originally established as a private limited company by shares, Bord Gáis Éireann Teoranta, before being converted to a statutory corporation under the Gas Act 1976, the primary legislation under which BGE operates.

* Bord Gáis Éireann, the Irish Gas Board

* Bord Gáis Éireann ( Irish Gas Board )

Specifically in the Republic of Ireland, a state-owned company called Bord na Móna is responsible for managing peat production.

In the Republic, this became the responsibility of a semi-state company called Bord na Móna.

Bord na Móna ( — ), abbreviated BNM, is a semi-state company in Ireland, created in 1946 by the Turf Development Act 1946.

After initially supplying the company ( known simply as Dublin Gas by the 1980s ) with wholesale natural gas, Bord Gáis acquired the assets of the company when it went into receivership in 1987, including its head office in D ' Olier Street, Dublin.

Bord Gáis bought the SWS wind energy company in late 2009.

In 2002 Bord Gáis Natural Gas Showroom in D ' Olier Street, operated by the company itself, was closed, in 2006 its Cork company-owned showroom was also closed.

Industrialised peat production within the semi-state company ' Bord Na Mona ' has been decimated.

The most notable of these was Bord na Móna, a semi-state company founded in 1946 to manage the harvesting of peat from Ireland's bogs, the most extensive of which are located in the midlands.

The Voluntary Health Insurance Board ( An Bord Árachais Sláinte Shaorálaigh in Irish ) — which trades under the brand name Vhi Healthcare, and is still commonly referred to in Ireland as " The VHI "-is the largest health insurance company in Ireland.

, the company has scaled back the bridge's use for this purpose to reduce impact on the city skyline, following input from An Bord Pleanála and Dublin City Council.

A subsequent planning application for a development of over 700 houses was granted by Meath County Council and this was appealed by local historians to An Bord Pleanala.

Another turn in his music was for Ferrari: Presque Rien ou le lever du Jour au Bord de la Mer-almost nothing or daybreak at the sea -.

Ireland's Bord na Móna (" peat board ") was one of the first companies to mechanically harvest peat.

The Talyllyn's unusual track gauge and restricted loading gauge meant that it was unlikely that a locomotive could be found that could work on the line unaltered, so in 1969 a gauge steam locomotive was purchased from the Bord na Mona ( Irish Peat Board ) with a view to rebuilding it for use on the Talyllyn.

In May 2012, the project was given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála.

Though he was proud of his work with Bord Bainne, Irish Sugar and the Erin-Heinz JV, he concluded that Irish farmers were benefiting much more from price-boosting subsidies than from commercial development.

In 1946 Bord na Móna was set up with Andrews as managing director.

An appeal to An Bord Pleanála ( The Irish Planning Appeals Board ), which determines appeals and other cases under the national planning acts, was heard in September 2006, and this resulted in the granting of permission in August 2007, with 31 planning conditions attached.

A cross-border body known as Foras na Gaeilge was established to promote the language in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, taking over the functions of Bord na Gaeilge.

An Bord Pleanála rejected nine out of ten of its own inspector's recommendations for refusal, but refused permission on the basis that it was not satisfied that the proposed development would not adversely affect the integrity of the South Dublin Bay and River Tolka Estuary proposed Special Protection Area and adversely affect the natural heritage of Dublin Bay.

Bord na Móna was founded in 1946 and provided employment to hundreds of people in Offaly by making peat briquettes ( for home domestic use ) and supplying peat to power stations operated by ESB.

Rickard also highlights amongst the key early Fortean Times advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered The News in 1974 and became a " constant of valuable clippings, books, postcards and entertaining letters "; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of Mysterious Britain ( Janet also wrote for Flying Saucer Review and Lionel Beer's Spacelink, while it was Colin's Fortean article in Gandalf's Garden that is particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him / them to his attention ); Phil Ledger, a " peripatetic marine biologist ", and The News < nowiki >'</ nowiki > " first enthusiastic fan "; Ken Campbell, Fortean playwright ; John Michell ; Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with the evolving layout and typesetting of later issues ; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database ; Canadian " Mr. X "; Mike Dash and cartoonist Hunt Emerson.

Janet Bord contributed " Some Fortean Ramblings " alongside William R. Corliss's " The Evolution of the Fortean Sourcebooks " for # 7, and issue # 8 was the first issue of Vol.

The first milled peat plant run by the Bord was financed with a loan of £ 500, 000 from Guinness in 1957.

Bord Na Móna bought Edenderry Power Station from E. ON in 2006 giving it control of the station that was built in 2000.

The release of equity through the sale of the various state resources, including electricity generation services belonging to the ESB, Bord na Móna and Bord Gáis, in combination with use of money in the National Pensions Reserve Fund, is the means by which Fine Gael is proposing to fund its national stimulus package.

* Derrygreenagh Park – Built in the 1950s by the state agency Bord na Móna as housing for its employees, Derrygreenagh Park was one of a small number of housing estates built to a particular design.

** Foras na Gaeilge is established as an agency of The North / South Language Body under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement to promote the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, assuming the roles of Bord na Gaeilge, An Gúm and An Coiste Téarmaíochta, previously state bodies of the Government of Ireland.

It was set up on 2 December 1999, assuming the roles of Bord na Gaeilge, An Gúm, and An Coiste Téarmaíochta, which had formerly been state bodies of the Irish government.