A family-run business that mixes the traditional with the ultra-modern has been crowned champion at this year’s food Oscars.

Almost a third of the more than 90 townlands in the South Kerry Gaeltacht are now uninhabited, with poor access to services one of the main reasons people are leaving the area.

Agriculture Minister Michael Creed is to bring a proposal to Government this week to phase out fur farms.

ENTERPRISE Ireland’s Green Programme is designed to assist companies to incorporate sustainable practices into the day-to-day running of their business.

An island off Cork has launched a bid to become one of the world’s few officially-recognised dark sky sites - areas dedicated to stargazing.

A solicitor has said he found a court application by a Senator's legal team to be "galling" after he again failed to provide the court with a detailed statement of his means.

The first distillery to be built on an Irish island in modern times is nearing completion and those behind it have already trademarked the gin and whiskey it will produce.

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The creation of digital high-speed broadband hubs in Gaeltacht areas and the islands is part of a strategy to attract back emigrants and help create 1,500 jobs.

Two disused landmark hospital buildings in Co Kerry will not be redeveloped for the housing market.

The Government has been accused of failing to provide sufficient funding in the budget to promote the Irish language.

A businessman who hopes to double his workforce by building a €500,000 food production facility in Co Cork says his plans have been stymied by cuts and changes to the State’s Leader funding scheme.

The leader of Fine Gael is expected to be declared before 6pm this evening after a 16-day campaign.

The race to be the next taoiseach will heat up this evening as rivals Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney go head-to-head in the first of four nights of hustings for the Fine Gael leadership contest.

A total of 559 full-time jobs were created in Údarás na Gaeltachta client companies in 2016, bringing to 7,963 jobs in Údarás-supported companies by year end.

Údarás na Gaeltachta is holding crisis meetings with the directors of a plastics company that was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and then jobs minister Richard Bruton in December 2014.

Leaving Certificate exam setters have reversed their view that JobBridge is not aimed at creating employment — but only after it became clear that hundreds of students believe it is.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny hailed small businesses as the backbone of the Irish economy, during a tour of Cork yesterday.

The Government is being urged to provide resources for language development as research reveals that the use of Irish is declining faster than previously thought in Gaeltacht areas.

Udaras na Gaeltacht says investment and regional development funding has led to job creation in Gaeltacht areas.

Vital funding for Ireland’s non-Gaeltacht islands has been secured for the year.

A major jobs announcement and investment package that has the potential to transform the knowledge economy of the north-west is expected to be made by a leading research and manufacturing centre today.

Oireachtas officials are to inquire into what happened to €75m spent by a state-funded charity to support thousands of school places which were never filled. 

Galway’s two local authorities are to employ consultants to carry out a feasibility study on the 115-acre site that contains Galway Airport.

An American university has confirmed plans to develop an international $1m (€729,000) campus in Dingle, Co Kerry.

Athlone-based Living Shamrock uses innovative hydro gel to keep the product fresh for longer, social media to reach new customers, and new products to boost sales, writes Trish Dromey

Largo Foods, which employs 140 people in Co Donegal, is to close its local operation.

A company involved in the production of e-cigarettes is to create almost 140 jobs at a facility in Connemara.

AT this time of year, that image of bothered pupils returning to school is always a common and humorous sight. Such was the look of some Fianna Fáil TDs and senators with bags slumped over their shoulders as they arrived for the party’s parliamentary think-in in Waterford city yesterday.

Hundreds of businesses are locked into upward-only rent reviews with the same landlord: the Government.

Companies are paying exorbitant premiums to base their businesses in Gaeltacht areas.

Yesterday, Údarás na Gaeltachta made its contribution to what seems to be a growing sense that we have weathered the worst of the economic storm.

Anglers in the West of Ireland have raised concerns about why the State is continuing to provide grant aid to a group of Connemara fish farms when the businesses have persistently lost money and when fish farming provides little employment.

A homecare provider has announced it is to create 510 jobs across the country over the next six months.

Some 26 jobs have been lost at Donegal financial services call centre Eist agus Cuidiú Teo, it emerged this morning.

The 2007 Linguist Survey of the Gaeltacht found that Irish had 15-20 years remaining as a community language without a change in the current Statepolicy, best described by Prof Joe Lee as ‘letting the language die by stealth’.

Following a protracted campaign during the seventies, which involved the Gaeltacht Civil Rights organisation, students from UCC, Cumann an Chadhnaigh, many Gaeltacht and cultural bodies and organisations around the country, the government of the day granted a democratically elected Údarás to the Gaeltacht.

Mr Richie Flynn (Irish Examiner, May 11) would be well advised to honestly confront and resolve the problems posed around the coast by salmon farming, rather than engage in sleight of hand exercises in front of an audience that is less well informed about the issues than he and some of the rest of us are.

The Department of Agriculture has rehired 59 retired veterinary staff at a cost of over €850,000 in the past two years, it has emerged.

Údarás na Gaeltachta has said it is actively seeking a partner to make use of the decaying Coláiste Íosagáin in Ballyvourney.

Up to 120 jobs earmarked for Cork have been lost after a company claimed plans to develop an international training college were dashed by Údarás na Gaeltachta’s bureaucracy.

Coláiste Íosagáin has been a crumbling eyesore for Údarás na Gaeltachta since it acquired the Ballyvourney site in 1998.

For the first time the population of the seven inhabited islands off the Cork coast have elected a joint community council which they hope will give them greater clout when it comes to gaining vital inward investment.

The landscape of Gaeltacht areas across the country could be dramatically changed under plans agreed by the Cabinet.