A Cork entrepreneur has sold his hair and beauty software firm WhatSalon to a Canadian company for a fee reported to be more than €15m.

Over 12 years ago, the Irish economy was booming and only a few were warning about the bust that was on its way. Kyran Fitzgerald scans the headlines of the day to assess the nation’s mood.

Patrick and John Collison, the billionaire brothers from Limerick behind mobile payments firm Stripe, were still in their teens when they sold their auction website Auctomatic for €4.5m in 2008.

Pendulum Summit is a business and self empowerment convention with delegations coming to Dublin from all over the world.

A bugbear of mine is the notion that people at work, and especially those starting out, have to be enticed and encouraged to start up savings or pension plans that allow them create a pool of wealth to fund quality of life as they get older.

A leading US academic is to address aspiring entrepreneurs in NUI Galway as part of a week-long series of events at the newly established Atlantic Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development.

In this week’s Q and A, Kehlan Kirwan talks with 17-year-old entrepreneur James Corneille. 

A persuasive Galway teenager has managed to get his parents' permission to quit school by using a powerpoint presentation to plead his case.

Report finds Ireland to be the best country in Europe for offering business owners a second chance

The upcoming budget offers the Government the opportunity to deliver a range of reforms that encourage entrepreneurship and ease the burden on hard-pressed workers.