Renovation tax relief rules clarified
The Oireachtas finance committee has clarified that homeowners will be able to claim for tax relief of 13.5% on home improvement works if the total [...]
Economy now adding 1200 jobs per week
CSO statistics published yesterday also show that 22,500 jobs have been added across the country in the past three months; that the unemployment rate has [...]
Bord Gais Energy bids too low
Pat Rabbitte, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, has told Bord Gais that none of the final bids received for its energy business were [...]
Island Energy seeking to raise €20m for wind farms and solar projects
Island Renewable Energy, which was founded in 2009 by several former executives ofNTR, is seeking to raise up to €20 million in equity to fund [...]
Quinn Jnr seeks to vary court order on assets
The son businessman Sean Quinn has asked the Commercial Court to vary freezing orders on his assets to allow him and his wife, who is expecting their [...]
AIB will be back in profit next year says Duffy
AIB said it plans to be back in profit by the end of next year and does not expect to come back to taxpayers seeking [...]
Ireland’s first insolvency case sees big debt cut
The country's first completed insolvency deal has seen more than 70pc of the borrower's debt written off, according to a report on RTE. The arrangement [...]
Call for TDs to approve extra €50m for road repairs
TDs are being asked to approve an extra Budget for the Department of Transport to repair the country's roads. Earlier this year the Department of [...]
Call for Irish construction workers to seek compensation for UK blacklist
SIPTU has called on Irish construction workers who may have been included on a ‘blacklist’ utilised by leading British building firms from the late 1960s [...]
€750m saved in a decade of SEAI’s Sustainable Energy Awards
Energy savings of €750 million have been made by the 600 organisations that have participated in the Sustainable Energy Awards over the last decade. “These [...]
HSE to present €666 million cuts plan
The HSE will deliver its National Service Plan for 2014 to the Minister for Health today. The plan will show how the executive expects to spend [...]
UK’s JD Wetherspoon to open in Blackrock
UK pub operator JD Wetherspoon has exchanged contracts to purchase its first pub in Ireland, the Tonic Bar on Temple Road in Blackrock, Co.Dublin. It [...]
Energy Cork grows into lead energy umbrella group
Energy Cork has become the country’s largest energy cluster just 12 months after it was founded, with more than 50 companies now participating. The former [...]
ESB completes the sale of its 50% shareholding in Marchwood Power Limited
ESB announced that it has completed the sale of its 50% shareholding in Marchwood Power Limited (MPL) to Munich Re, a major European insurance company [...]
Four separate companies announce 230 jobs
Three technology companies and an entertainment group have announced expansion plans that will see over 230 jobs created. The companies include Microsoft, which is creating [...]
Kentz secures second major contract in a week
Irish-founded engineering services group, Kentz has secured a second major contract win in under a week, yesterday announcing the award of a five-year framework contract [...]
Refurbished Clerys reopens
Clerys department store on Dublin's O'Connell Street has reopened having been shut since July due to flood damage. The 160-year-old shop has been completely restored and [...]
Melbourne’s tallest building via Cavan
The tallest residential building in Melbourne’s CBD is under construction and Cavan-born developer Tony Brady is behind the project. The 72-level Vision building will be [...]
Record high for Wind Energy Output
Wind power output in Ireland reached record levels yesterday, according to the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA). A new record of 1,564 megawatts (MW), enough [...]
Kentz awarded €141m contract with Qatar Petroleum
Kentz has been awarded a €141m three-year contract with Qatar Petroleum, the announcement of which helped boost its share price by over 2% yesterday. The [...]
Information Evenings about Studying Engineering at College to be held in the Midlands
A series of information evenings about studying engineering at college will take place across the Midlands over the next two weeks. The “Design, Build, Engineer” [...]














