Donal Bray of Echo IT, with some of the other nominees for the 2015 National Enterprise Awards

“When we were announced as overall winners of the County Enterprise Award on the night in Cashel, it was an amazing feeling, especially when we knew the standard and level of competition across the county. It took a day or so to sink in that we were now going up against the rest of the country, representing Tipperary, which is a great honour in itself, but equally a great responsibility which we’re really looking forward to taking on”.

Set up in 2001 by Portroe native Donal,  Echo IT has grown steadily to become one of the region’s leading Professional IT Support, Sales and Service providers. “We’ve always strived to provide a holistic, down to earth approach to IT, to allow everyone from the home user to large organisations”.

In recent years, Echo IT has diversified into the area of rural broadband, while also maintaining their core business of selling and repairing laptops and PCs, while maintaining IT logistics for a growing number of clients. “ It felt like a natural progression for the business, as we had a lot of customers from rural areas, whose machines we sold to them or were repairing, that were complaining of poor or non-existent internet. It’s been successful for us in Nenagh and surrounding areas, and now we are supplying to areas around Thurles, but we’re constantly trying to find ways of improving the service and expand to new areas.”

Representing Tipperary won’t be a completely new experience for the business, as for the last two years, they have been sponsors of Tipperary’s under age Camogie teams, with the Under 16 team winning last years All Ireland and the minors being narrowly defeated in this year’s decider. “It’s great for us to put something back into local sport and into the future college graduates and workers of the county, we’re very proud of their achievements.”

Echo IT , Proud sponsors of Tipperary Under Age Camogie

All county nominees for this year’s National Enterprise Awards were  revealed at a ‘Business Masterclass’ at The Heritage Hotel in County Laois, by the network of Local Enterprise Offices.

The National Enterprise Awards is now in its 18^th year and has a €20,000 prize fund on offer, aiming to recognise the impressive achievements of small local businesses throughout the country. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton T.D. will be announcing the overall winner on Thursday, June 11^th at an awards ceremony at Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

Let’s hope that Echo IT can bring back the first of the county’s successes this summer.

The Tipperary Minor Camogie team had a great win against Galway on Saturday 18^th  in Birr GAA grounds. Watched by a good crowd Tipperary were slow to start Galway had two points up before Tipperary got their first score. Roisin Howard got Tipperarys first score after that Tipperary took control of the game and were leading 1-09 to 0-06 at half time. In the second half Tipperary went on to score 1-09 while Galway only scored 1pt. They now meet Kilkenny in the final next Saturday 25^th in Birr GAA grounds at 2.30pm. Scores for Tipperary Roisin Howard 0-04 from play Niamh Treacy 1-04(3 frees) Orla O Dwyer 0-04 from play Ciardha Maher 0-01 from play Miriam Campion 1-03 from play Claire Stakelums 0-01 from play Sarah Stakelums 0-01 from play. The County Board wish the team the Manager John Lillis and selectors Lenny Philips, Bill O Mullaney and Nora O’ Brien Physio Declan O’ Rahilly(First Aid) all the best of luck next week and are asking all clubs in the County to support this fine young team.

Echo IT are delighted to be official sponsors of Tipperary Minor Camogie and whis the team and staff all the best as we go on together to the All Ireland.

Echo IT are excited to announce several new areas where we are now able to supply our highly successful wireless broadband service.

We are now supplying broadband to :

• Ballycahill
• Borrisoleigh
• The Ragg
• Bouladuff
• Barnane
• Templemore
• Dovea
• Upperchurch

Donal Bray, owner of Echo IT said “We’re delighted to announce these new areas of coverage, as for a long time we have had enquiries about our service from these regions. People badly need broadband in these areas, and we are delighted to bring this service to these towns and villages”.

Further details and information about Echo IT’s broadband service can be obtained by calling the office on 067-56888.

Owner of Echo IT; Donal Bray, receiving First Prize in the County Enterprise Awards from Alan Kelly TD; Minister for the Environment

Echo IT were recently awarded with the Overall Award for Enterprise by the Local Enterprise Office in Tipperary. The awards, which feature businesses from all across the county and from a wide range of industries, were held at Bru Boru in Cashel. Following two runner-up finishes in the previous two years; Echo IT are delighted to receive this prestigious honour up against such great local businesses. 

Owner of Echo IT; Donal Bray said “it’s a great honour for us to receive this accolade. To compete against so many great businesses across the county and to come out on top is a fantastic achievement for our organisation. A big thanks to our customers and staff, because without them we wouldn’t be in this position”.

Echo IT will now go on to represent Tipperary in the National Enterprise Awards.

As official agents for F-Secure Antivirus and Security Software, we are delighted to announce the success of F-Secure among industry peers.

F-Secure  won the Best Protection Award from the AV-TEST Institute, becoming the only vendor in the history of the prestigious award to win the honor four years in a row.

Further details of this impressive accolade are available here.

As official agents for Echo IT antivirus software, we provide a fully managed subscription service for your online security needs. For further details, call us on 067-56888.

As we reach the end of the second month of 2015 here at Echo IT, we are consistently getting new requests for broadband. People from all across North Tipperary are looking to get connected to the web. It now appears that to have broadband is becoming as important as having light and heat. So much of our daily lives now are dependent on an internet connection. It is also becoming a determining factor in the purchases of housing.

The, now-defunct, National Broadband Scheme was implemented to provide broadband services to the remote areas of Ireland that were not going to be served by the larger providers. However, customer experiences of this scheme have been reported over the last number of years as being highly varied, with many receiving service no better than that of the days of dial up. These areas were also probably the last areas to receive electricity many decades ago.

Life now requires you to be connected to the Internet with ease. Many companies require you to live in an area with broadband coverage to enable you to work from home when required. It’s also essential to have reliable broadband if trying to improve yourself academically, with the advent of distance learning and the provision of subject notes on online resources at colleges. Here is an article which perfectly describes the modern need for a worker to have broadband in their home.

We, here at Echo IT, are doing everything in our power to bring broadband to areas that are being poorly served. We are constantly developing new areas of coverage across North Tipperary. We will announce new areas as soon as they are available.

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• The Ragg
• Ballycahill
• Templemore
• Thurles
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• Dovea

More areas are constantly under development and will be announced.

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