O’Sullivan Publishes Comprehensive Review of Social and Affordable Housing Elements of Part V
Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O’Sullivan, TD, today published a review of the social and affordable housing aspects of Part V of the Planning [...]
ECB to hold policy as economy improves
Tentative signs the euro zone's recession may be coming to an end will give the European Central Bank room to hold off further stimulus when [...]
NAMA Seeks to Revive U2 Tower Project Shelved in 2008
Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency is seeking to resurrect a plan to build a residential property in Dublin known as the U2 Tower five years [...]
Sean Dunne declared bankrupt
Developer Sean Dunne has been adjudicated bankrupt by the High Court in Dublin. Ulster Bank, which secured a €163 million judgment against him last year [...]
Irish partners awarded €3.3m EU funding for smart grid trials
ESB, Intune Networks AND TSSG (Waterford Institute of Technology) team up to develop smart energy systems ESB Networks, in partnership with Intune Networks and TSSG (WIT), [...]
OPW to take inventory of everything owned by the State
The OPW plans to take an inventory of every building and every item it owns in order to make it available for the public to [...]
Economy has turned a corner?
Employers' group, IBEC, today said that clear signs are emerging that the second half of this year will see the economy turn a corner, forecasting [...]
Harry Crosbie’s FC resigns
John Dunne, the group financial controller of Harry Crosbie’s docklands property empire, has resigned as a director of the group. New filings with the Companies [...]
IDA Secured 70 individual FDI projects to date in 2013
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Ireland has been strong in the first half of the year, IDA Ireland and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and [...]
Louth welcomes Narrow Water Bridge order
Cllr Declan Breathnach, Cathaoirleach, Louth County Council has welcomed the decision of Mr. Danny Kennedy MLA, Minister for Regional Development (Northern Ireland) to proceed with [...]
‘Pay now, argue later’ – Minister Hayes brings Construction Bill through the House
Minister of State Brian Hayes delivered on the Programme for Government commitment to legislate to protect small building subcontractors. This legislation will bring clarity to [...]
3-way NAMA project for Dublin Docks
Los Angeles-based investment manager, Oaktree Capital, Irish developers Bennett Group and NAMA will combine their land portfolios to develop up to 50,000 sq. metres in [...]
O’Connell St bank branch to be converted to retail space
The former National Irish Bank near the GPO in Dublin’s O’Connell Street, is expected to be converted into retail use when its sale is completed shortly. An [...]
Dungarvan Mayor welcomes €8m investment in GSK
Cllr Damien Geoghan. Mayor of Dungarvan has welcomed a major €8m investment for the GlaxoSmithKline plant in Dungarvan. Speaking at Waterford County Council’s monthly meeting, [...]
Praise for Irish fiscal transparency – IMF
The IMF today praised Ireland's fiscal transparency but said improvements need to be made in accounting and Budget coverage. The International Monetary Fund today published: [...]
OECD: Pay firms to hire young workers
The plight of youth unemployment in developed economies is so severe it has prompted the OECD to call for more government intervention, possibly including paying [...]
Tesco to anchor new retail centre in Dun Laoghaire
Cosgrave Property Group has begun construction of a new retail complex on part of the former Dún Laoghaire Golf Club grounds at Upper Glenageary Road. Park Pointe [...]
Symantec operation to create an additional 400 new jobs
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it will establish a new European Customer Management Centre in Dublin – creating up to 200 jobs in 2013, [...]
Investors eye up Dublin properties
New York hedge fund giant Paulson & Co, Investec Asset Management and Pimco have emerged as some of the largest shareholders in Ireland's first real [...]
€10M to help WIT move Forward
Labour T.D. for Waterford Ciara Conway says the publication of an inspection into the relationship between Waterford I.T. and a group of companies that provided [...]
Smithwick’s Brewery site in Kilkenny to be a national research and development centre
A plan has been unveiled for the development of part of the Smithwick's Brewery site in the centre of Kilkenny into a national research and [...]














