Late Payments continue to strangle small firms
“Getting paid on time is a never ending problem for small businesses. Late payment causes serious cash flow problems; requires firms to extend overdraft facilities [...]
Tesco Extra store opens in Gorey
A new Tesco Extra store has opened in Gorey, Co Wexford, creating more than 50 new jobs for the town. The existing Tesco Gorey store [...]
Central Bank to submit planning for €140m ultra-green HQ on the docks
The Central Bank is expected to submit a planning application for its new headquarters, which will cost an estimated €140 million, within days reports the [...]
Work begins on conversion of Montrose Hotel into student accommodation
Construction work has commenced this week to convert the former Montrose Hotel on Dublin’s Stillorgan Road into student accommodation for 192 residents from September 2014. [...]
SCHOOLS PPP Bundles 4 & 5 “Meet the Buyer” Event
The Schools PPP programme is part of the €650m PPP stimulus package and aims to deliver new schools in rapidly developing areas and to replace [...]
Electricians may strike in defence of pay rates
The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is balloting its members across the electrical contracting industry for strike action in defence of pay rates which, it [...]
AIB/ESRI Housing Market Index indicates housing markets bounce back
The AIB/ESRI Housing Market Index that measures the population's perception of the state of the housing market and where they see house prices going rose significantly [...]
Businesses seize opportunity for energy investment in public and commercial facilities
The Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte T.D. haspublished Ireland’s National Energy Services Framework (NESF), which will support the rollout of energy [...]
NAMA says property crash over
Ireland's property crash, the most severe in any developed country in living memory, is over, according to Frank Daly, chairman of the National Assets Management [...]
Ireland – out of the trash bin
Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Ireland to investment grade, handing the government a major post-bailout boost and opening its already sought-after debt to investors prohibited [...]
HP set to hire 150 engineers in Galway
Global computing and services giant Hewlett-Packard's new Irish research and development centre will add up to 150 engineering jobs here, according to HP chief executive Martin [...]
Consortium set to take over building group Siac
A consortium backed by French giant, Bouygues, looks poised to take over troubled building group, Siac, after the original preferred bidder for the company, businessman Brian Harvey, decided [...]
Clarion Hotel in IFSC sells for €33m
Investment firm Patron Capital has bought the Clarion Hotel in Dublin’s IFSC area for €33 million. The four-star property, which was sold by receivers appointed on behalf of theNational [...]
Byrne Looby Partners opens new office in Dubai
Irish and international consulting engineering practice Byrne Looby Partners has announced the opening of a new office in Dubai, bringing to nine its total number [...]
The Irish Building sector to grow to €11 billion and create 10,000 jobs in 2014
The value of construction activity in Ireland is expected to grow by just over €1 billion to approximately €11 billion in 2014 and create up [...]
PJ Hegarty & Sons sign €35 Million Contract for construction of the new Cork Prison
The Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter TD, has today, Thursday 16th January 2014, signed a €35 million contract with PJ Hegarty and [...]
CIRI – New register of construction companies and sole traders
Following a request from the Government, the CIF has been working on establishing a new register of construction companies and sole traders. The new register [...]
Property investors focus on Dublin
Dublin will be the second most attractive market in Europe for property investors over the next year, according to a major new study. The report, [...]
Anglo and Nationwide loan book sell off begins
Finance Minister Michael Noonan says the liquidators of the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide have begun selling off its loan book. The Irish Banking Resolution Corporation was [...]
Noonan says Moodys verdict ‘important, not vital’
Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said a verdict by the ratings agency Moody's is "important but not vital". Ireland is currently termed as "junk status", [...]
Ministers Deenihan, Howlin and Hayes visit National Gallery of Ireland to mark commencement of major refurbishment works
Ministers Deenihan, Howlin and Hayes visit National Gallery of Ireland to mark commencement of major refurbishment works. Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and [...]














