A total of 27 Irish companies are participating in the first leg of Ireland's five-day, six-city trade mission to the United States, which officially gets underway today.

A new innovation campus in Dublin City University (DCU) is expected to support about 500 jobs over the next five years.

Dublin City University is setting up a new facility to support Ireland's Cleantech sector, which it claims will support 200 jobs over the next 18 months.