UFC fighter Conor McGregor and tech boy-wonders the Collison brothers are some of the Irish lauded by Forbes in its prestigious “30 Under 30 Europe” list of young people to watch.

An army of volunteers is mobilising to collect surplus food — enough to make 1,000 meals a week — for distribution to charities across Cork.

Irish shoppers throw away on average €400 a year in food waste.

In this week’s column, Kehlan takes a look at the some of the businesses he talked to in 2015. He explores what drives these SMEs to succeed.    

Marketing and taxes are among the biggest challenges facing Irish start-ups, whether they are based here or abroad, the Global Irish Economic Forum heard yesterday.

People are queueing to snap up food near its sell-by date.

Innovative new app Foodcloud only partnered with Tesco last summer, but already the union has resulted in more than half a million meals for homeless people in Ireland.

Feeding the homeless population of Ireland is a daunting task, but it’s all in a day’s work for social entrepreneur Iseult Ward who has just been named as one of Time magazine’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’.

A group of students who formed a social enterprise and created a smartphone app to distribute food to those in need have formed a partnership with Tesco.