Here is a selection of people who have just begun interesting new roles with companies in Ireland.

Life is all about change — at least that’s the standard counsel, increasingly received as the years roll by.

Two of the biggest insurance companies in the country are reporting less than 5% of fraudulent personal injury claims to Gardaí.

In Skyfall, the 2012 film in the James Bond series, our erstwhile hero comes back from the ‘dead’ to fight the fictional cyber villain, Raoul Silva, who manages to interfere with satellite signals, attack the London underground, tamper with elections and destabilise the stock market.

Bernard Brogan is one of the founders of Peptalk, a corporate well-being company that counts big businesses like Coca-Cola, Zurich and Northern Trust as clients.

Education Minister Joe McHugh came under fire this week after he suggested that students could pursue “regional options” as pathways to their chosen career if the expense of university was an issue.

With third-level education set to cost parents up to €35,320 over the course of a student’s studies, four in 10 parents fell into debt this year funding their child’s college expenses.

Keith Earls, named by his peers last night as Zurich’s Irish player of the year, is aiming to cap a memorable season by accounting for Leinster’s European champions and claiming a first trophy for Munster since 2011.

If it’s Ireland-Wales in the Six Nations then chances are Rhys Ruddock will be nudged in front of the media at some point or other in the week leading up to it — the Leinster back row’s current absence through injury didn’t change that yesterday.

Zurich Insurance and the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) believe they have uncovered a multimillion-euro Eastern European fraud ring behind fraudulent damages claims arising from staged accidents.

Zurich Insurance and the MIBI believe they have uncovered an organised and sophisticated multi-million-euro Eastern European fraud ring behind fraudulent damages claims arising from staged accidents, a judge was told today.

A retired secondary school teacher who was followed by private detectives acting for Zurich Life Assurance has settled her High Court action over the insurer’s decision to cease paying her a disability allowance.

Insurer RSA is likely to show record underwriting profits for the first nine months of 2016 and is planning to sell or reinsure £1bn (€1.1bn) worth of legacy UK business, chief executive Stephen Hester said.

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A private investigator who used a mole in the Department of Social Protection to mine their computer system for personal information on others has been fined €4,000.

A man has lost his legal challenge over an insurance company’s refusal to pay out on his claim for serious illness cover.

Cork Chamber has welcomed news that one of the country’s leading insurance companies will look at reinsuring flood victims after its representatives came to view flood defences in Co Cork.

London’s Ftse 100 collapsed below the 6000 mark yesterday as volatility hit markets across Europe again after a concerted sell-off among miners.

RSA Insurance chief executive Stephen Hester said that the company will attract bids from other suitors after Zurich Insurance Group abandoned its £5.6bn (€7.74bn) offer for the British insurer.

Zurich Insurance abandoned its £5.6bn (€7.69bn) proposed bid for Britain’s RSA, after forecasting a $200m (€178m) third-quarter loss yesterday largely due to explosions at Chinese port Tianjin.

The £5.6 billion takeover of More Than owner RSA by rival Zurich has collapsed after a slump in the Swiss group’s general insurance business prompted it to abandon the deal.

Zurich Insurance Group shares slumped yesterday after reporting a profit that missed analyst estimates on a decline in earnings from general insurance. The Swiss firm is considering a bid for the UK’s RSA Insurance Group.

Having been the hotbed of financial activity in Ireland for the past 25 years Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre is now a key component of a developing financial technology sector here, alongside native technical expertise.

The US has submitted a formal request for Switzerland to extradite seven Fifa officials arrested in Zurich as part of a corruption probe that has rocked soccer’s world governing body.

There is great concern at present from both consumers and industry professionals about the insurance industry in Ireland.

Paul O’Connell was lifting trophies again last night as the Ireland captain was voted the Hibernia College IRUPA Players’ Player of the Year 2015 by his fellow professionals.

Cybercrime is a growing threat with criminals attacking business, individuals and governments, says the head of insurance company Zurich which based in Dublin.

A High Court judge issued a “heartfelt plea” to an insurance company to re-consider the plight of a man refused payment under his serious illness policy because he underwent surgery on one, rather than two, arteries as required by the policy.

A Swiss woman detained by Spanish authorities and taken to a hospital with her 10-month-old son allegedly cut the boy’s throat with a hidden knife and killed him after receiving permission to give him a bath, Spain’s Civil Guard said today.

IDA-affiliated companies created over 7,000 net new jobs during 2013 — the highest level of job creation seen for more than 10 years.

Consumers has been told to shop around when looking for home insurance as the difference in quotes from insurance companies could be over €300.

Josef Ackermann, the former head of Deutsche Bank, yesterday resigned as chairman of Zurich Insurance over the apparent suicide of the Swiss insurer’s finance chief.

Zurich Life Ireland recorded an operating profit of €20.5m for the first six months of the year, which is a 35% increase on the same period in 2012.

The level of IDA Ireland-attracted foreign inward investment increased by 15% on a like-for-like basis in the first six months of the year.

Ireland has seen off international competition to land 112 hi-tech jobs from leading global financial services company Zurich Insurance Group.

London Mayor Boris Johnson has vehemently denounced “deluded” and “self-defeating” EU plans to cap bankers’ bonuses.