It pays to rehearse scenarios for success, say Ivan McKenna and Ciarán Bermingham, founders of RealLearning.ie and the hosts of a new 'Increase My Presence' workshop series with Everyman Theatre in Cork.

Recent CSO data shows the number of overseas visits to Ireland from January to May increased by 3.7% compared to the same period in 2018.

UCC’s acquisition of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) was a major driver of a 7.7% increase in the university’s income to €371.7m in 2017, according to its latest accounts.

The Irish Management Institute (IMI) has become the first Irish educator to be listed in the Financial Times global top 50 for executive education.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

The reliance of foreign firms on the economy has been further signalled with an IDA-backed management course aimed at training management for Irish subsidiaries of multinationals.

RTÉ is standing over an investigation on spending and governance at third-level colleges as it prepares responses to complaints from two universities.

University of Limerick (UL) president Des Fitzgerald says he will not hesitate to take action if a number of ongoing probes uncover any breaches of conduct rules by staff or directors.

Third-level bosses face a severe grilling by TDs over gaps in their evidence to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee about financial affairs.

University College Cork acquired a private business college without picking up the tab for its pension scheme, which previously had a deficit of more than €10m.

University College Cork has said it is satisfied it paid market value when it bought a former bank from a local authority for €800,000 more than its purchase price two years earlier.

With third-level funding at crisis point, how prudent is it for UCC to borrow €18m to take over the Irish Management Institute, asks Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

The network outage that affected thousands of Eircom customers last week has been branded as ‘unacceptable’ by European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy, who suggested such failures could threaten Ireland’s international reputation.

The Government has appointed a former Fine Gael senator to a highly paid European role worth €250,000 per year.

Tim taught in India with the VSO after college, then moved to London to study accountancy. Back in Dublin, he joined the National Irish Investment Bank, where he remained until 1990.

Cork company WorkCompass is now making inroads into the UK market with software which is designed to turn management theory into high-performance practice.

The rules of engagement between employee and employer are undergoing major overhaul. A system that is no longer useful is being transformed. As a result, disputes between workers and their bosses should be resolved much more rapidly.

Two senior executives at EMC’s Cork operations, Aidan Trindle and Bill O’Connell, have been promoted to global roles within the company.

Multinational companies operating in Ireland are confident that they will increase their turnover and employment levels here despite a growing skills shortage.

He has admitted to being tempted into the Ireland role, in part, by the carrot of a less hectic pace of life, so it was ironic yesterday to hear Joe Schmidt talk about being whisked through the suburban traffic of Paris on a motorbike at 140kph.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton will announce plans this morning to tap into the technology 'Big Data' sector.

ALMOST half of Ireland’smultinationals plan to hire staff in the next 12 months.

Nearly half of the multinationals operating here expect to increase staff in the next 12 months, while 13% of firms surveyed expected to decrease their employment numbers.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny announced yesterday that the Irish Management Institute (IMI) and UCC have agreed an alliance that will “transform business education in Ireland”.

A Romanian man has been found guilty of the murder of a nurse in Sandyford in Dublin just more than a year ago.

A Romanian man charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in Dublin last year denied that she was under duress when he filmed her in the shower weeks before she died.

The trial of a Romanian man accused of murdering a nurse in Sandyford just more than a year ago has heard Mihalache Marian claimed his former girlfriend had cut him with a knife.

A Romanian man charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in Dublin last year told gardaí that she had cut his throat, not the other way around.

A 35-year-old nurse found dead in a bedroom at the Irish Management Institute last year died of two cut-throat wounds to her neck, a court heard.

The mother of the deceased in a murder trial said she received a threatening call from the accused in the days before the killing.

A 49-year-old Romanian man has gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in South Dublin last year.

A Romanian man has gone on trial accused of murdering a nurse in Sandyford, Dublin just over a year ago.

FOOD companies executives will be encouraged to complete Enterprise Ireland’s new Leadership 4 Growth programme, launched at the Irish Management Institute in Dublin.

IRISH export value fell by 2% in October, though the seasonally adjusted trade surplus rose 8% to €4.15 billion. That was made possible as the dip was coupled with an 11% decline in import value.