Cork-based Enterprise System Partners (ESP), which provides consulting and manufacturing services to life sciences firms around the world, has been bought by the international giant Accenture.

All the signs point to a continued tightening in Ireland’s labour market, in the urban centres in particular. But are employers adapting quickly enough?

Accenture will hire more than 300 technology and design professionals this year.

250 new jobs have been announced at Accenture in Dublin.

A global consulting and technology firm is to hire 200 staff as it sets up a new innovation centre in Ireland.