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Future-Proofing Ireland’s Economy

By Ryan Harmon 3 August 2022

The 2023 budget should include measures to help in future-proofing Ireland’s economy, says KPMG Ireland in its pre-budget submission. Specifically, it should aim to reduce the impact of inflation through income tax indexation, retain Ireland’s FDI competitiveness via personal tax reform, support our SME sector by reforming KEEP and EIIS and use our tax system […]

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Nature-based solutions should play an increased role in tackling climate change

By Jack Mullen 19 April 2021

Image courtesy of www.iucn.org Working with nature and enhancing the role of ecosystems can help reduce the impacts of climate change and increase climate change resilience. Such an approach can deliver multiple benefits, including lowering pressures on biodiversity, improving human health and well-being, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building a sustainable

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Ireland is open: The biologics boom boosting the Irish economy

By Jack Mullen 15 February 2021

The life sciences industry has an important role in the Irish economy, with sectors such as biologics booming across the country. Rory Mullen, head of biopharma at Ireland’s economic development agency IDA Ireland tells pharmaphorum why business is blossoming in the Emerald Isle. With an attractive corporate tax rate and the youngest workforce in the […]

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Cork City placed 5th in Europe for Economic Potential

By Jack Mullen 24 June 2020

Cork City has been hailed the fifth overall best city in Europe for economic potential, according to the Financial Times FDI European Cities and Regions of Future 2020/2021 league. The influential publisher ranked Cork’s economic potential higher than a range of top tier European cities including Amsterdam, Oslo and Frankfurt. The prestigious ranking looks at […]

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‘Hard Brexit’ Warning For Irish Manufacturers

By admin 12 February 2018

A stark warning regarding a ‘Hard Brexit’ was issued to Irish manufacturers at the National Manufacturing and Supply Chain Conference recently at the Citywest Convention Centre, Dublin. The annual conference welcomed 3,000 manufacturing and supply chain industry professionals including over 200 speakers and 170 exhibitors. With the Brexit negotiations seemingly nowhere

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LinkedIn Research Shows Growth in Inbound Talent to Ireland

By admin 1 December 2015

According to new research by LinkedIn, there is an increasing influx of professional talent into Ireland, with 18% more professionals coming into Ireland than leaving the country in Q3 2015. The LinkedIn reseach analysed member updates between July and September, tracking movements and trends between countries and job sectors. It found that in Ireland the […]

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Ireland Named Among World’s Fastest Developing Digital Economies.

By admin 3 June 2015

Ireland has been named as a “standout” country, in terms of the speed of its developing digital economy, in a study conducted for the Harvard Business Review.  The study is built around an index, the Digital Evolution Index (DEI), created by the Fletcher School at Tafts University, which attempts to gauge the differing speeds at […]

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Unemployment Drops Below 10% For the First Time Since 2009.

By admin 21 May 2015

Figures released by the Central Statistics Office today show unemployment dropping to 9.9% in the first quarter of 2015 – the first time the figure has fallen below ten per cent in seven years.  This shows an increase of 2.2% from last year, with a total of 12, 500 new jobs created in the first […]