The first supermarket in Ireland to launch a designated in-store gluten-free bakery and food production facility was launched in Clonakilty, Co Cork, yesterday

Ireland’s first gluten-free in-store bakery will open this summer in Scally’s SuperValu in Clonakilty, Co Cork, creating five new jobs.

Three West Cork schoolboy entrepreneurs who created a drink made from seaweed have landed a prize worth €20,000 to help kickstart their business.

A €15,000 prize fund, four ‘warhorses’ and one blindingly good business idea — that’s Clon’trepreneur, an initiative by a West Cork town determined to stimulate local employment.

A levy has curbed the Irish public’s consumption of plastic bags but 1m are given out every minute worldwide, writes Dan Buckley.

THE tiny town of Castletown in County Laois has always had big ideas, but none more so than becoming the tidiest place in Ireland.