High-tech companies in the West and the Mid-West are in "recruitment mode" and urgently seeking key talent from outside the regions, the IDA has said.

The head of a US multinational said he ignored advice that he should not come to Ireland when he was looking to set up a base in Europe due to the poor state of our telecommunications.

JOBS security in the Mid-West is underpinned by the high-quality graduates being turned out at the University of Limerick and the Limerick Institute of Technology, Enterprise Minister Micheal Martin said yesterday.