The IDA is likely to renew its push for more resources, to help it accentuate its promotion of Ireland as an investment location, when it formally meets Jobs and Enterprise Minister Mary Mitchell-O’Connor in the coming weeks to review its strategy and performance.

The State’s employment rights watchdog had a 20% increase in the number of calls to its customer service line last year and also increased the number of prosecutions carried out against employers.

According to leading migration agents visafirst.com, improvements in the economy and business sentiment are some of the reasons why 2016 is on track to be a record year for the issuing of Irish work permits.

Global fashion giant Ralph Lauren has opened a new e-commerce hub in the heart of Dublin’s docklands area.

Almost 400 jobs have been announced this morning in two separate job announcements.

Design exports account for 21% of all Irish exports, new research to be published today reveals.

The Government has been urged to take firm action to ensure there will not be repeat this year of the type of behaviour shown by supermarkets two years ago when vegetables were virtually given away at Christmas.

Siobhán Finn outlines how entrepreneurs can benefit from next week’s series of events targeting those starting, scaling and aiming to succeed from the Cork region

The Government couldn’t prevent the Web Summit choosing an alternative host city from next year despite funnelling over €700,000 of taxpayers’ money into the event over the past three years.

A government department and two state bodies promoting investment have clashed with the energy regulator and Irish Water over the level of discounts to be offered to large firms for water which is unfit for human consumption.

Directors of firms who act in the same manner as those behind the Clerys closure should be banned from occupying such positions for five years, according to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

Clerys workers were not given the minimum notice they were entitled to before losing their jobs, Tánaiste Joan Burton told TDs.

One hundred new jobs have been announced for Drogheda.

The IT sector’s representative body in the south of the country, it@Cork, has submitted an application to the Government seeking funding for an initiative that could create 1,300 jobs over the coming years.

Workers at Dunnes Stores may escalate their campaign of industrial action in its row with management of the supermarket chain.

Up to 200 jobs are to be created as part of a €40m expansion of Co Monaghan forklift manufacturer Combilift.

The head of the Revenue Commissioners says she is surprised by a whistleblower's claim that Ansbacher Accounts were not investigated properly.

More than 100 jobs are to be created at a software company’s customer support centre in Cork.

The Department of Finance has said it is up to its minister in the budget to decide whether or not to address concerns over millions of euro being returned to supermarkets for selling below-cost alcohol.

Over half of au pairs earn less than €3 a hour, according to a survey which says Ireland "has become inextricably linked with cheap childcare and domestic work in the private house."

An online ticket sales firm, Viagogo, has announced plans to open a new operations centre in Limerick which is expected to creates hundreds of jobs.

The Government has denied it asked a pharmaceutical giant which announced 200 job losses yesterday to delay the news until after the local elections.

Anyone tired of slow-streaming or low-quality pictures while watching movies or TV shows online could benefit from potentially revolutionary Irish research.

A new regional aid map outlining parts of the country where the State can provide investment aid to businesses is being launched today.

Fifty new jobs are on the way to Limerick.

A senior official at the Department of Social Protection has admitted the speed of changes made to age limits for eligibility to the State pension was “not desirable”.

Cork savoured another high-end jobs boost yesterday — bringing to over 700 the number of new jobs announced for the city in a week.

A joint initiative between DCU, NUI Galway, UCC and UCD focusing on the data analytics called Insight, is hoping to create 300 jobs through 12 planned spinout companies.

Three hundred jobs are to be created through a new centre for data analytics.

Thirty-eight new jobs are being created at De Puy Ireland in Cork.

A UK-based company specialising in software for cinemas is to create 20 jobs in Cork over the next two years, it was announced today.

Ireland could create more than 50,000 jobs, if there was an aggressive development of the marine renewable energy sector, according to Tony Lewis.

A new €29m research centre could put Ireland at the forefront of the marine renewable energy research sector.

Several hundred jobs are to be created across Ireland as a number of companies made investment announcements.

Some 365 new jobs have been announced by 10 companies during day one of the Web Summit.

Two years after Twitter’s European head quarters started with a single employee the company has announced that it is to take on a further 100.

Nineteen state bodies will come together in Dublin Castle on Oct 22 for a one-stop-shop free event for small businesses.

Nine counties with a combined population of more than 800,000 people have received just 22 IDA-sponsored visits by companies between them since 2010, yet Louth with a population of 123,000 has received 65 visits over the same period.

There was a 21% drop in the number of people starting new businesses in Ireland, last year, latest figures show.

Recruitment gets underway this morning following a jobs announcement by cloud company Citrix.

Online deals provider Groupon is to take on 20 new staff in Dublin, it has revealed.