More than 300 staff jobs are to be created at University of Limerick (UL) as part of an ambitious five-year investment worth hundreds of millions of euro.

A PUBLIC consultation process begins in Limerick on Friday on the Opera site, set to span a 550,000 sq ft office campus on a four acre city site as part of the Limerick Twenty Thirty programme.

Solid employment data renewed Wall Street’s inflation worries and sent stocks skidding today, with a bond sell-off overshadowing a fresh drop in oil prices.

Vodafone and Microsoft joined forces today to launch a corporate email service to rival the BlackBerry.