Cork Chamber launched a major initiative in London last night to showcase opportunities in what will be the second largest English-speaking city in the EU post-Brexit.

Minister for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan has announced today at the IIBN OpportUnity Conference in New York that the Irish Executive Mentoring Program (IEMP) will expand its platform globally.

Irish business people consider their national identity an important factor in doing business.

Businesspeople are overwhelmingly confident about the future and, despite longer working hours, are increasingly satisfied with their jobs, according to two separate surveys.

THE potential commercial benefits of such areas as education and the arts are to be examined in the coming months by the new Global Irish Network, set up after last year’s Global Irish Economic Forum at Farmleigh House.