Dublin and Mayo were the two biggest spending inter-county set ups last year, clocking up over €3m in bills between them. That’s a lot of rubs and grub, writes Tony Leen. 

A hundred and fifty engineering jobs are coming onstream in Dublin.

A leading global medical technical firm has announced 100 jobs in Limerick.

It has taken many years longer than it should to build a permanent home for Kerry GAA, so getting full value for their €8m Centre of Excellence is less a target than an imperative, writes Tony Leen.

Peter O’Mahony’s excitement at returning to competitive rugby shone through this week as he edges to within touching distance of ending the most frustrating period of his career.

Taxi app Hailo has reiterated its support for existing legislation which prevents rivals such as Uber from launching “ride-sharing” services in Ireland.

Ambitious plans by the Institute of Technology Tralee to increase student numbers envisages the shedding of its south campus in the Kerry town.

His approach as a pundit:

Uber’s global bookings are projected to rise nearly threefold this year to $10.84bn (€9.54bn) and reach $26.12bn the next, according to a recent presentation for potential investors seen by Reuters.

Nothing can prepare for you for your first glimpse of Garvaghy.

Limerick GAA chiefs hope their Centre of Excellence in Rathkeale will host National League games in the near future.

Three days on and the soul-searching continues.

This great little film is called 'Anya', and it's about a Russian orphan. If you like it, you might consider a small donation to an Irish charity that helps children like her. Simples.

Dara Woods and her daughter both suffer from HHT, a genetic disorder of the blood vessels.

Bruce Springsteen’s concert in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in July helped Cork County Board show a surplus of approximately €1.4m in their annual accounts.

The Kerry County Board have revealed their plans to build a GAA Centre of Excellence and associated facilities, with sponsors Kerry Group contributing €1 million to the project.

The GAA has released the first images of its redevelopment plans for the Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium in Cork.

American global giant EMC is adding another 200 jobs to its 1,800-strong workforce in Cork due to this country’s “enterprise-facing environment and skilled talent”.

Senior EMC staff were honoured at a civic reception last night at which the Lord Mayor of Cork said the firm was a “cornerstone of Cork’s foreign direct investment community”.

Cork’s City Gate Park in Mahon today takes a further step towards major IT talent clustering with confirmation of the arrival of hundreds of EMC Corporation jobs to the new office campus.

Sligo secretary Gerry O’Connor has brushed off Eamonn O’Hara’s criticism of Kevin Walsh as “kneejerk” and claimed his comments were consistent with having a personality clash with the manager.

Wexford GAA officials welcomed the sale of almost 26 acres of land which brought in a high price of €405,000.

Jim McGuinness has called on Donegal County Council and its representative bodies to assist in helping a number of his panellists find employment.

County Board Chairman Patrick O’Sullivan told club delegates at last night’s re-arranged County Committee meeting that the lands at Currans would be purchased within the next two weeks.

Shares of EMC, the world’s biggest maker of storage computers, tumbled after forecasting full-year profit that trailed analysts’ estimates and as VMware, the software maker it mostly owns, said it is considering job cuts.

At 2pm last Saturday, Shane Enright and Shane Carroll lined up on opposite sides for the McGrath Cup game in Killarney.

A leading Irish boxing official has predicted Ireland could have 10 boxers qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio in four years’ time.

EMC is building a cloud computing innovation centre to be called Cloud4Gov, which could save the state anything up to 50% on its IT costs.

Technology giant EMC has reported an 18% increase in revenue for 2011, adding that its Irish operations achieved record growth during the year.

ALL the great champions invariably have one thing in common.

HISTORY will be made tonight in Ballyhaunis, Mayo when the Connacht Council’s Centre of Excellence hosts it’s first matches — the opening games of the FBD League.

CORK County Board secretary Frank Murphy warned clubs that the financing of the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh could be jeopardised if they do not play a greater effort in supporting the Cork GAA clubs draw.

EMC, which employs 2,500 in the Republic of Ireland, most of them at its Ovens and Ballincollig plants in co cork, has reported global third quarter consolidated revenues of €3.6bn.

GROWING demand for cloud computing helped the Irish-based operations of global technology giant, EMC, to grow by 21% in the three months to the end of September.

EMC has reported an 18% increase in global third-quarter revenues over the same time last year.

THE announcement of 250 high-value jobs by global software giant VMware yesterday is proof Ireland is on the right track, the Enterprise Minister said.

THE global online payments company PayPal yesterday announced the creation of 200 jobs at its European headquarters in Dublin, bringing the total workforce there to 1,550.

2010 was a year to forget for Limerick hurling, the county convulsed by the controversy that saw its senior hurling team drastically diminished by cuts and withdrawals.

ONE of Ireland’s top employers says it has confidence in the country and believes there is a positive outlook ahead.

PARAIC DUFFY has revealed that the GAA is ‘actively looking into’ the idea of goalpost technology for Gaelic games.