Dublin software company Veritas Technologies is to create 250 new jobs in the city by 2019, it has been announced.

A campaign to secure student votes in the forthcoming general election will take to the road this week.

In the most highly-anticipated Wall Street debut since the heady days of the dot-com boom, shares of Google surged nearly 20% on their first day of public trading as the quirky internet company completed its much-hyped initial stock offering.