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What Ulster Rugby and Google can teach firms about answering tough questions

Paddy O'Dea

Paddy O'Dea

PR360

Ducking for cover in the midst of a media storm isn’t a communications strategy – it’s a stop-gap.

  • 4 min read
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  • policy and economy

'We say Eir lost, not that they dropped out': The National Broadband Plan's last man standing

Enet chairman David McCourt talks about why he’s determined to see the project succeed.

  • 6 min read
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  • Work

A worker got €20,000 in compensation after becoming depressed on late shifts

The man was eventually dismissed after his request for day work was knocked back.

  • 3 min read
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  • tourism and transport

This is what it will take to turn Dublin into a European cruise capital

The semi-state that runs the port is looking to Denmark and Canada for inspiration.

  • 7 min read
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  • Startups and tech

A Dublin startup has nabbed €1.3m to guard sensitive company data on staff mobiles

Corrata will use the new funds to expand into the UK and US.

  • 3 min read
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Here's what employers need to know about firing people on probation

Derek McKay

Derek McKay

MD, Adare Human Resource Management

Firms often overlook a law that lets staff take an unfair dismissal case even when they’re being tried out.

  • 4 min read
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  • health and education
  • Work

Nursing homes want foreign work permit rules relaxed to solve their staffing 'crisis'

An industry group says workers from countries like the Philippines could plug a skills gap.

  • 5 min read
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'Worst come to worst, I'd have stood on the street to find work so I could provide for my family'

Emeka Ikwukeme

Emeka Ikwukeme

Founder, TaxGo

After losing his accountancy job, Emeka Ikwukeme tried to find a job but ended up as his own boss.

  • 7 min read
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  • food and drink

Jameson's owner just bought Cork craft beer outfit Eight Degrees Brewing

The eight-year-old firm partnered with the whiskey giant on its ‘Caskmates’ project.

  • 2 min read
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  • Startups and tech

GIVEAWAY: We've got FREE passes to one of Ireland's biggest startup events

FutureScope gives young firms the chance to link up with major tech companies.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property
  • tourism and transport

One of the largest tourist accommodation projects in Ireland has been given the go-ahead

Tetrarch Capital plans to create a 595-unit hotel and short-term letting block at Ned’s pub in Dublin.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property
  • Startups and tech

Irish broadband group Imagine has been taken over by a Canadian investor

Brookfield has taken a majority stake in Sean Bolger’s company after a €120 million investment.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property
  • retail and services

‘Running your own business is quite a lonely experience at times’

As part of our How My Business Works series, we profile Wicklow-based Smart Storage.

  • 8 min read
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  • retail and services
  • tourism and transport

Two big supermarkets and a tech giant tumbled out of Ireland's top 10 favourite firms

Credit unions topped the poll – Irish Water came in dead last.

  • 3 min read
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  • health and education
  • Startups and tech

This Dublin firm has sold off its chip business for $35m to focus on connected health

S3 Semiconductors was sold to a US company.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property
  • policy and economy

Planning delays have forced Apple to abandon plans for its €850m Athenry data centre

The tech firm previously warned the state that planning delays could jeopardise the future of the project.

  • 4 min read
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  • media and marketing

Sales slip at the firm behind Irish Farmers Journal as its readers face 'considerable uncertainty'

The trust that owns the weekly newspaper is also battling with ‘major changes’ in media.

  • 3 min read
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  • policy and economy

Building firm CRH has been kicked off its perch as Ireland's biggest company

Tech giant Apple made a meteoric rise up the leaderboard of the country’s largest businesses.

  • 2 min read
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  • Financial Services

There has been a sharp increase in the number of whistleblowers contacting the Central Bank

Reports of wrongdoings in the financial sector nearly doubled last year.

  • 3 min read
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The Dublin startup that's helping Stripe and H&M trim their energy bills

As part of our weekly Startup Spotlight series, we profile EnergyElephant.

  • 6 min read
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