Minister pledges clampdown on councils over bad planning decisions
The Minister responsible for overseeing planning permission in Ireland has insisted she will personally veto bad planning decisions. Jan O’Sullivan says she has written to [...]
Minister Quinn announces Review Group to develop a modern apprenticeship system
The Review Group will examine the future of apprenticeship training in Ireland with a greater focus on work-based learning and a closer alignment of the [...]
New road maintenance scheme asks local communities for contribution
Details of a €10.6 million works on local roads in a pilot scheme that involves asking for funding contributions from communities in certain areas has [...]
€150m GIL dairy processing facility in Co Kilkenny starts construction
Ground has been officially broken on the construction of the €150m Glanbia Ingredients Ireland (GIL) dairy processing facility in Belview, Co Kilkenny – the first [...]
BAM Signs N7/N11 PPP Contract with Department of Transport
N7 works will facilitate nationwide travel North to South without traffic lights. BAM has signed a public private partnership (PPP) contract with the National Roads [...]
Construction to begin on Luas Cross City
Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, Leo Varadkar, announced the contract signing alongside the Railway Procurement Agency and the building contracters. The first contract, signed [...]
Eircom getting it’s fibre
Eircom today launched its much anticipated super-fast fibre broadband network. The new service is available to 230,000 homes and businesses in urban areas from Monday. [...]
Capita – 800 jobs in next three years for Ireland
Service solutions provider Capita has announced it will create 800 jobs in Ireland over the next three years.The majority of the jobs will be based [...]
Children’s hospital possible delays until at least 2019
The new national children’s hospital is unlikely to be ready until 2019 “at the earliest”, according to sources involved in planning the project. This is [...]
Varadkar to sign contracts for Luas Cross-City line today
The Transport Minister Leo Varadkar will sign the first contracts for work on the new Luas Cross-City line in Dublin today. For the first time, [...]
Growth likely in output and employment will continue this year and next
The Economic and Social Research Institute has said it is likely that growth in output and employment will continue this year and next. In its [...]
No Eurozone inflation risk
The euro slipped against the dollar and German bond prices rose on Thursday on investor positioning for more monetary easing by the European Central Bank [...]
Irish Economy ‘set to expand by 2.7%’
The economy could grow by as much as 2.7% next year if forecasts of a global revival materialise, a leading think-tank has claimed. Despite the [...]
Work to start next month on upgrade works to wastewater treatment plants
Contracts valued in excess €17 million for the upgrade of Wastewater Treatment Plants in Clonakilty and Ballincollig have been signed by Cork County Council The [...]
Pfizer hoping to sell Little Island plant in Cork
The jobs of more than 130 people are under threat at a manufacturing plant operated by pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Co Cork. Pfizer has said [...]
Former Dunne HQ on Merrion Square offered at €1.5M
One of the best preserved Georgian houses on Dublin’s Merrion Square, used for many years as a headquarters by Sean Dunne’s Mountbrook Homes, is to [...]
338 apartments in four Dublin schemes guiding €35.5m
Four Dublin apartment developments funded by Bank of Scotland (Ireland) during the property bubble are now to be sold at substantial discounts after being put into receivership [...]
IFSC price drop sale
One of the three original office blocks at the front of Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre has been sold in an off-market deal for €35 [...]
€13m plus for Eyre Square site
The Irish Times reports that a consortium headed by the wealthy Galway developers Brian and Luke Comer has bought a substantial redevelopment site fronting on to Eyre [...]
650 JOBS BOOST FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
AMERICAN insurance company Allstate is to create 650 jobs at its Northern Ireland operation over the next three years. The firm currently employs 1,900 people at its premises [...]
Peter Darragh Quinn ordered to pay €145m damages to IBRC
Peter Darragh Quinn has been ordered to pay €145m damages to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation over his "pivotal" role in stripping assets from the Quinn [...]














