A hundred new jobs are being created by the mobile phone company O2 in Dublin.

Irish Life & Permanent chairman Gillian Bowler has today the establishment of a new Committee to deal with Risk & Compliance issues.

IRELAND still faces an uphill challenge if it is to achieve a quality nationwide broadband internet network in the short-to-medium term, an industry conference was told yesterday.

Three DCU students have been chosen by some of Ireland top business figures as the Accenture Leaders of Tomorrow for 2009.

BUSINESS in the Community Ireland, a corporate advisory group, called for a new level of “social partnership” between corporations and the communities in which they operate.

O2 customers will be able to snap up concert tickets up to 48 hours before general release when Dublin’s famous Point Depot reopens in December, it was revealed today.

GLANBIA, the global food group, and its Irish consumer foods business, under the Avonmore brand, announced yesterday it is committed to raising €2 million between now and 2011 for Barretstown, the therapeutic recreation camp for children with cancer and other serious illnesses.

CONSUMERS here can finally get to see what all the fuss has been about when Apple’s new iPhone — which combines mobile phone, mobile internet and an iPod — officially hits the Irish market in a few weeks.

Women Mean Business magazine, WMB, in association with O2 Ireland, today held the inaugural O2 Women Mean Business Conference and Awards 2007, designed to recognise the achievements of Ireland’s businesswomen.

O2 Ireland and Yahoo! have today announced an agreement which provides a framework for making oneSearch, Yahoo!’s industry leading mobile search product, the main search engine on O2’s mobile portal.

DANUTA GRAY, chief executive of O2 Ireland, has been appointed as chairperson to the board of children’s charity Barretstown.

AER LINGUS directors have purchased their first shares in the newly privatised carrier.

FOUR new directors have been appointed to the board of Aer Lingus, it emerged last night.

Minister for Transport Martin Cullen has announced four new appointments to the board of Aer Lingus.

The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has confirmed that O2 Ireland is the new official sponsor of the Irish national rugby team.

COMMUNICATIONS giant O2 have been unveiled as the new sponsor of the Irish rugby team.

The IRFU has announced that O2 Ireland is the new official sponsor of the Irish national rugby team from tomorrow.

MOBILE phone operator 02 made operating profits in Ireland of €129 million in the first half of its financial year, 17% higher than in 2004.

SHARES in O2 surged 25% yesterday after Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica swooped to take over the mobile operator for €26 billion.

Irish O2 customers talked for an average of 209 minutes a month on the network to the end of March, up from 197 minutes a month the previous year.

Mobile phone operators today denied deliberate overcharging customers after three separate scandals in the last six months.

MOBILE phone operator O2 Ireland added 150,000 new subscribers in the six months to the end of September.

The new Communications Minister should review the regulatory environment faced by mobile operators here, O2 Ireland chief executive Danuta Gray said yesterday.

IRISH LIFE & Permanent (IL&P) beat market expectations yesterday when it reported first-half pre-tax profits of €192 million.

The chairman of Irish Life & Permanent plc, Gillian Bowler, has announced the appointment of Danuta Gray as a non-executive Director of the Group.

MOBILE operator O2's Irish customer base was largely unchanged between April and June.

MORE powers should be given to the Communications Regulator to protect the consumers’ interests, according to Simon Coveney, Fine Gael spokesman on communications.

02 Ireland has appointed Paul Whelan as its new chief financial officer.

O2 Ireland chief executive Danuta Gray has expressed her frustration at the level of regulation in the Irish mobile industry.

MOBILE phone operator O2 Ireland yesterday launched its third generation mobile network in six cities.

FORMER Businesswoman of the Year Catherine Tiernan was glad she took time out last year after her son was born. She was only back at work a week when three-month-old Shane suddenly succumbed to meningitis within a matter of hours.