The Irish recruitment scene is enjoying an upsurge in activity in recent times, as can been seen with this selection of new appointments and promotions.

A 52-year-old finance director has launched a High Court action challenging a contention by the pharmaceutical company where she has worked many years that she is "deemed to have resigned".

Ecstasy can help the tortured victims of post traumatic stress overcome their demons, research has shown.

EiRx Therapeutics, the Cork Airport business park-based drug discovery company that floated on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) last year, has completed the acquisition of Auvation Ltd.

In an article published yesterday about the plan by Merck Laboratories to cut 4,400 jobs worldwide, Merck Laboratories was incorrectly identified as the owner of Gerard Laboratories in Baldoyle, Co Dublin.