Around 20,000 jobs are to be slashed from the North’s public sector following a political deal to safeguard powersharing.

Around 20,000 jobs are to be slashed from the North’s public sector following a political deal to safeguard powersharing.

A US internet security firm is to set up a new operation in Belfast, creating 80 jobs.

Technology scientists claim they have created world-first software that can measure how people express a wide range of emotions online.

US financial services company Citi is creating 600 new jobs in Belfast in a £54m investment.

A Stormont budget crisis has been temporarily alleviated after Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionists voted to accept an emergency £100 million loan from the Treasury.

Former chef and publican, Graham Canning, who saw his pub business in Dublin go to the wall during the Celtic Tiger has, along with his wife and business partner Bernie Canning, received the Supreme Champion accolade at the Blas na hÉireann awards at the Dingle Food Festival.

An American IT company is to create 100 new jobs in the North, it has been announced.

One of the world’s leading law firms has chosen to set up a new base in Northern Ireland – a move that will create more than 250 jobs.

Airline Jet2 is creating almost 90 jobs at Belfast International Airport as it announced four new routes from its base in the North.

A financial technology company is to create almost 500 jobs in Co Down.

A small island off the north coast of Ireland has emerged as an unlikely potential supplier of edible seaweed to Japan – a country whose own stocks have been hit by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

An unknown artist has made a spectacular breakthrough by producing a painting fit for the walls of David Cameron’s Downing Street offices.

Dublin-based IT company Qualcom is to invest nearly €2m in an initial expansion of its services outside of the Republic over the next 12 months.

Cork-headquartered investment firm Kernel Capital has continued its expansion and its relationship with Bank of Ireland through the launch of a £25m (€29m) venture capital fund; aimed at investing in SMEs north of the border over the next five years.

The government is 100% behind bringing Northern Ireland’s corporation tax to the Republic’s low level.

A company from the North claims to have solved one of the stickiest problems facing towns and cities the world over – discarded chewing gum.

A Japanese global healthcare company is creating 416 jobs in Northern Ireland.

Almost 180 new jobs are being created at a Co Tyrone meat processing plant.

Some of the world’s top music executives are to gather in Derry later this month to debate the future of the industry.

Over 380 small to medium sized businesses yesterday engaged with some of the largest public sector buying organisations to access the estimated €20bn all-island public procurement market.

An American financial services company is to create up to 50 jobs in Belfast.

New world number one golfer Rory McIlroy should be followed round the globe by Stormont officials to help tap into any tourism potential, according to a politician.

A concrete equipment company in Co Armagh has won an £800,000 (€890,000) contract in Russia.

THERE has been a dramatic new twist in the tug-of-war battle between Kerry and Derry for a multi-billion euro pharmaceutical project that has the potential to create close on 5,000 new jobs.

CRUNCH talks are scheduled tonight between IDA Ireland and the backers of an unprecedented multi-billion euro pharmaceutical project who are threatening to abandon plans to set up in Kerry and instead move to the North.

THE backers of a multi-billion euro pharmaceutical project, which has the potential to create 5,000 jobs, have threatened to scrap plans to set up inKerry and move the entire operation to the North.

A Belfast software firm is to create 72 jobs after announcing a major expansion of its operation in the city.

NEWRY-BASED specialist technology firm First Derivatives has forecast continued growth in its current year, after seeing profits rise by just over 15% last year.

Enterprise ministers on both sides of the border should co-operate to create jobs in areas of high need across Ireland, Sinn Féin has said.

A doors and windows manufacturer is to create 225 jobs in the North over the next three years.

More than 100 jobs will be created after a US technology company said it was establishing a European centre in the North.

An international consultancy firm is to create 45 jobs in Belfast.

IRELAND is losing out on a major jobs boost due to its failure to develop offshore wind energy, said the National Offshore Wind Association of Ireland (NOW Ireland).

Fifty new software jobs are to be created in Belfast by the US-based ATG company.

Seventy-five Quinn Insurance jobs in Enniskillen have won a reprieve, it was revealed today.

Kingspan is to expand its manufacturing facility in Portadown, Co Armagh, with the creation of 163 new jobs.

More than 100 jobs are to be created through a multimillion-pound expansion of an eco-friendly energy business in Lisburn, it was announced today.

More than £5m (€5.7m) was paid out in British government support for Quinn Insurance, the North's Enterprise Minister said tonight.

A Belfast IT company will create almost 100 new highly-skilled jobs, it was revealed today.

Business process outsourcing company, Firstsource has announced 150 new jobs in Derry city for a contract with a new telecommunications client.

Northern Ireland companies investing in India are to receive fresh legal help, it was announced today.

Ferry company Norfolkline is establishing a new European Finance Service Centre in Belfast, creating about 60 jobs, it was announced today.

A US company is creating 60 jobs with the establishment of a research and development centre in Belfast, it was announced today.