Image Courtesy of @Wayfinders.ie “The ongoing health emergency has led to new ways of working for organisations all over the world,” says Frank O’Donnell, Public Sector Lead at Microsoft Ireland. In responding to COVID-19, workers across all industries have been forced to adapt their daily routines. But when the services your organisation offers are vital […]
Huawei today announced it would create a further 110 new jobs in Ireland by the end of 2022, bringing to at least 310 the total of new jobs it will have added over a three year period from 2019 to 2022 – more than doubling its workforce in that time. Huawei will invest €80 million in […]
Image courtesy of @FinancialNews New Irish funds legislation has been hailed as “game-changing” in its scope to accelerate industry growth and potentially create thousands of jobs by 2025. The financial services bill – which has been in the works for over five years – is intended to facilitate the ‘green recovery’, as well as open […]
Image courtesy of @danielschaeferphoto.com HR software company Personio is set to expand its new international business and software engineering hub in Dublin with the creation of 140 new jobs. The HR tech company, which ‘digitises people processes to unlock the productive potential of European SMEs’, has grown its Dublin presence from the ground up, building
Image courtesy of @Saurabh Kumar (www.linkedin.com/in/saurabh-kumar) HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network), the all-island organisation responsible for the promotion of business angel investment, and a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland and Invest Northern Ireland has announced that despite the pandemic-induced restrictions over the course of 2020,
More than three-quarters (76%) of Irish businesses have experienced growing uncertainty across the data protection spectrum over the last 12 months with no signs of this abating according to a new survey from the Association of Compliance Officers Ireland (ACOI). Released ahead of World Data Protection Day (28 January) The survey of more than 250 […]
Irish car sharing company YUKÕ, in partnership with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, has launched its’ car club operation in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. All the cars supplied on the YUKÕ fleet are self-charging hybrid automatic vehicles. As part of the initial 4-month agreement, cars will be available on the following streets:Crofton Road x 2, Carmanhall Road, Heather
Image courtesy of @wearebwi.com Alter Domus (“Alter Domus” or the “Company”), a leading provider of integrated solutions for the alternative investment industry, has announced the creation of 100 new jobs, substantially increasing headcount at its European Centre of Excellence in Cork. From Cork, Alter Domus operates a European hub for global private debt, private
€121 million in Government funding was invested in Ireland’s sustainable energy transition last year according to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s (SEAI) annual achievements statement published today. This investment included €90 million into building energy retrofits which underpinned €185 million in this rapidly growing sector that will be vital to achieving
Image courtesy of the @Wild Atlantic Way Donegal County Council’s Regeneration & Development Team in conjunction with GM Design Associates is pleased to announce the launch of ‘FUTURE Ballyshannon’, a visioning project which will deliver a Regeneration Strategy and Action Plan for Ballyshannon Town Centre. The project will commence with a period of Public Consultation
The headwinds of COVID-19 have altered nearly all aspects of people’s future across the globe, and have plunged the world’s financial markets into a fast-moving state of disruption and uncertainty. For the financial services industry, the consequences of the pandemic have compressed a decade’s worth of change into less than a year, proving itself the […]
New research from Trinity Business School in Dublin, Ireland highlights the need for employers to be mindful of the financial wellbeing of freelancers and contractors. This is particularly relevant given that some suggest 75% of staff could be gig workers in 5 years. According to the research, authored by Dr Martha O’Hagan-Luff, Assistant Professor in Finance […]
Image courtesy of IDA Ireland OECD REPORT ON FDI HIGHLIGHTS: IMPORTANCE OF FDI SECTOR IN IRELAND FDI’s ROLE IN RECOVERING FROM THE 2008/09 FINANCIAL CRISIS FDI’s CONCENTRATION IN SECTORS WITH HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY, R&D EXPENDITURE AND BETTER EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES NEED FOR CONTINUED ACTION ON DIVERSIFICATION, PRODUCTIVITY AND INCREASING SPILLOVER EFFECTS
4site, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Indigo Telecom Group Limited, a global provider of telecom and data centre network support services, today announced it will be recruiting more than 100 people, over the next three years, to support its plans for international expansion. With open-location and office-based roles across Ireland, the roles will span from Fibre […]
A move to home working during the pandemic is driving a shift in house-buying trends away from urban areas, surveyors have reported. More people are looking for larger properties in regional locations with good broadband coverage, according to the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI). The SCSI’s annual residential property review and outlook predicts property […]
Image taken from @ballymoregroup.com Two local sports clubs will also get new state-of-the art homes as part of the plan for the area dubbed ‘Connolly Quarter’ Permission has been granted for a “game changing” development beside Connolly Station that will see more than 700 homes being built and create 1,000 jobs. The new Strategic Housing […]
Micro-generation is defined as micro-generation technologies, including micro-solar PV, micro-hydro, micro-wind and micro-renewable CHP with a maximum electrical output of 50kW, designed to primarily service the self-consumption needs of the property where it is installed. Currently in Ireland there is no support scheme for this range of micro-generation technologies.
The start-up is expanding its fleet in Dublin but its e-scooter plans will depend on a new transport bill being passed into law. Bleeper has raised nearly €600,000 to add more bikes to its sharing fleet and it is plotting the roll-out of e-scooters. The company, formerly known as Bleeperbike, operates a dockless bike-sharing service […]
The new funding will support projects in St. Margarets, Balrothery, Rolestown and Lusk. Fingal Town and Villages share €190,000 in new funding from the Town and Village Renewal Scheme. The new funding will support projects in St. Margarets, Balrothery, Rolestown and Lusk. Fingal County Council has been awarded €190,000 in funding by the Department of Rural […]
Novartis has today announced that Swiss firm SGS will buy and operate the assets of its International Service Laboratory on the Ringaskiddy campus, saving jobs at the Cork facility. Under the terms of the deal, the 100 Novartis staff currently working at the Laboratories will transfer to SGS. In October 2019, Novartis said it planned […]