More than 150 jobs are to go in Co. Wicklow with the closure of a dog food manufacturer.

Ulster Bank is to cut 175 senior management roles.

“As you can imagine there’s a lot of frustration,” climate action minister Richard Bruton told journalists at the Lanesborough power plant in Co Longford, due to close next year, after a meeting with workers this afternoon.

Locals in Fermoy were left shocked after the only hotel in the town announced its sudden closure over the weekend.

Barratt Developments has notified about 5% of its London staff that they may lose their jobs as the company retreats from building expensive apartments in the centre of the UK capital.

The Novartis job losses highlight “our enormous reliance” on global companies and the need for the state to invest more in Irish businesses, the Catholic Bishop of Cork and Ross believes.

The decisions by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis to shed 320 of the 550 jobs at its Cork campus over the next three years and by Koch Industries to close its Molex manufacturing facility in Shannon, with the loss of 500 jobs, may be the tip of the manufacturing industry closures’ iceberg in Ireland.

The 'devastating' job losses announced by pharma giant Novartis earlier this week are a timely reminder for Ireland not to be over reliant on global companies and show the need to invest more in local indigenous industries, according to the Bishop of Cork & Ross.

Representatives from the trade union SIPTU are meeting senior management of the pharmaceutical manufacturer, Novartis.

Business Minister Heather Humphreys is under pressure to explain why she and her department were given no advance warning about significant jobs losses in Cork and Clare.

“Like all the factories down through the years, Fords,Dunlops, they’ve all done the same thing. You know, just a wipe of the pen. “It’s just not going to work. We can do it cheaper somewhere else”.”

The loss, within a matter of days, of more than 800 jobs at two US multinational companies highlights, once again, the nature of Ireland’s unbalanced economy and the urgent need to assist, promote and encourage indigenous industry.

Business Minister Heather Humphreys has told the Dáil the double job loss announcement in Cork and Shannon is “extremely disappointing”.

Heather Humphreys confirmed today that she has received no briefings from the job development agencies here of any further large scale imminent job losses.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has expressed his “deep regret” at the double announcement of job losses in Shannon and Cork, but insisted they are not linked and part of a wider problem.

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy is calling for "urgent intervention" to save nearly 70 jobs in Monaghan.

Shipyard workers in Belfast are fighting to keep crisis-hit Harland & Wolff in business, writes Pete Hodson.

The airline says it is because of the risks of a no-deal Brexit and the Boeing 737 Max planes being grounded.

The proposals for the facility in Shannonbridge, Co. Offaly would have seen it fuelled with biomass as well as peat.

The announcement that 148 workers would be laid off was made on July 11 and since then, union representatives and Bord Na Móna have been in talks over the staff losses.

It's over the temporary closure of a power-plant at Lanesboro, Co Longford, which Bord na Móna supplies.

An impasse between the ESB and the Environmental Protection Agency that has led to the suspension of operations at a power plant in Longford could lead to industrial action by Bord na Móna employees, unions are warning.

William Hill said of its store closure plans: "This follows the Government's decision to reduce the maximum stake on B2 gaming products to £2 on 1 April 2019.

The owner of Cadbury is looking to lay off 70 staff at its Dublin production plant.

If tariffs are introduced on Irish beef exports into the UK, as has been suggested by the UK’s Environment Secretary Michael Gove, then meat plants here will close and there will be job losses is the warning from the director of Meat Industry Ireland.

Tesco has confirmed that up to 9,000 jobs are at risk across its head office and stores as part of efforts to "simplify" the business.

The total number of people employed in Ireland has reached 2.19 million.

Concerned residents in a Co Donegal town claim it will lose more than 200 local jobs and €10m in revenue each year after plans were announced to by-pass it.

Bombardier's decision to axe almost 500 jobs at its site in Belfast is "not a Brexit issue", Business Minister Richard Harrington said as he was blasted for saying the Government had "no role" to play in the matter.

A provisional liquidator has been appointed to the fashion and accessories chain Coast.

Vintners have joined hoteliers and tourism bodies in claiming jobs are at stake if the Government hikes the Vat rate on hospitality from 9% to 13.5% in the budget.

GSK is to close its manufacturing site in Sligo by 2021, with the loss of 165 jobs.

Up to 27 jobs are to go in job cuts at Liebherr in County Kerry.

Coca-Cola is closing its plant in Athy, Co. Kildare with the loss of 82 jobs.