Academics will deliver a report next Monday showing that Cork is ideally poised to become “a leading dairy industry hub of global significance” with potential to increase dairy exports by €450m and create 4,000 jobs by 2020.

The Cabinet has given the go-ahead for legislation which will allow trade unions to seek pay increases for workers even where their employer does not recognise collective bargaining.

The Government’s trade mission to the Gulf states has been condemned for “drumming up trade in human rights blackspots”.

SMEs are receiving overdue payments at the quickest rate for nearly five years, according to a study conducted by lobby group Isme.

Information Commissioner Emily O’Reilly has criticised the Department of Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation over its failure to provide any detailed data on the number of Freedom of Information requests submitted to public bodies in 2012.

The Dáil’s public spending watchdog is to launch an investigation into how €290,000 was spent on furnishing the office of its own chairman in 2007 when he was a junior minister.

Some of Ireland’s leading employers will gather in Dublin’s Convention Centre on Saturday to offer graduates up to 3,500 positions.

The powers and advocacy role of Ireland’s National Consumer Agency (NCA) must not be lost when the body is merged with the Competition Authority.

Two departments in the Government have clashed over proposals for a register of lobbyists which would prohibit former ministers from engaging with policy makers after leaving office.