High-tech companies in the West and the Mid-West are in "recruitment mode" and urgently seeking key talent from outside the regions, the IDA has said.

The jobs market here has a positive future, despite the decline in the unemployment rate likely to slow after the recent Brexit vote.

HURLING legend Seán Óg Ó hAilpín gave the chemists of the future advice yesterday on how to be leaders in their own field.

Professionals who relocate from Dublin to the north west have a better quality of life, less time commuting and suffer less stress, a survey claimed today.

Recruitment agency Collins McNicholas called for increased regulation and legislation and a drastic improvement in standards in the recruitment sector following the disappearance of almost 250 recruitment agencies in the space of just 12 months.