Intelligence officers, former US Secret Service agents, cybercrime fighters, and members of international police forces will convene in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, next month for a biennial Global Intelligence Forum.

The stampede for Twitter shares recently culminated in the company’s founders and early investors becoming even wealthier.

ALMOST 3,000 new companies are established here every month, helping Ireland to the top of a European list for business start-ups.

IRISH entrepreneurial teams typically do not have the business skills to support high-growth potential new ventures, the provost of one of the world’s leading colleges for enterprise education has said.

Ireland is now the most entrepreneurially active country in the EU and to the fore in Europe as a whole, according to the Irish Report of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for 2003.