The acute pangs for the Cotswolds began early yesterday. To unload the frustration, I tapped on my phone and screamed as loud as I could on Twitter. ‘I hate, hate anyone heading to Cheltenham today’.

Twitter’s Irish-based operation recorded a loss last year, as its cost base increased sharply following moves to double its workforce in Dublin.

New accounts filed by Google show that the amount of tax the search engine giant paid in Ireland more than doubled from €8.1m to €17m last year.

Global innovators will offer insights into how future technologies will transform business, at the it@cork European Tech Cluster Summit in Cork on May 15.