As part of the Gathering 10,000 one-to-one meetings with hundreds of international businesses are set to take place next year at the CorkMeet in the Rochestown Park Hotel.

Cork will host the country’s largest international business networking event next year as part of The Gathering.

SPEED dating was devised as a solution to help couples get together. And in the conference centre of the Radisson Hotel in Cork yesterday it seemed like every business in Ireland was looking for love.

A NETWORKING event, the largest of its kind in Ireland, is expected to generate contracts worth €10 million.

MORE than 300 companies have signed up for the first networking event of its kind in this country, which kicks off in Cork this week.