The Irish Examiner’s media group has made two key appointments as part of its drive to develop new and exciting content for its print and online readers.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace review: Top class ensemble made for a memorable night at the Everyman in Cork, writes Joe Dermody

How do you measure heartache? Years spent in the doldrums, woeful win-loss ratios, and player unrest or disinterest are all useful, dependable, barometers.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Joe Dermody looks at this week's business movers

Joe Dermody talks to directors of Carbery Group, which has just published its accounts for 2018.

Dairygold's revenues are an all-time high of almost €1 billion. The company's directors talk to Joe Dermody

This year, a further seven companies were recertified to the standard: Boots Retail, CRH, Deloitte, ESB, Gas Networks Ireland, Intel and KBC Bank Ireland.

Farmer groups have welcomed the timely roll-out of GLAS scheme payments to 33,000 participants, adding that it is essential that the remaining 16,000 farmers are also paid without delay.

IRISH companies are striving to keep pace with data analytics skills shortages while third-level colleges race to make up ground on a five-year lag on industry-wide demand for skills in this area.

An imminent resolution is expected between countries discussing scientific advice to reduce mackerel fishing in the north-east Atlantic by 61% in 2019. Representatives of 11 EU and non-EU fishing countries gathered at the National Seafood Centre in Clonakilty, Co Cork, for three days of talks on total allowable catch levels for the €1bn mackerel industry.

Irish SMEs have a lot to gain from being more invested in their mobile online presence, says John Brennan, director at ePresence Online Marketing.

Employee engagement company Workvivo already has customers in 23 countries, and has been growing at a phenomenal pace since its June 2018 launch.

Art patrons can avail of great tax incentives, say McAvoy & Associates chartered accountants and the Lavit Gallery, neighbours on Wandesford Quay, Cork.

FESTIVALS and cultural events can help extend the tourism season as Fáilte Ireland seeks to help Irish hospitality providers continue the sector’s run of positive figures.

Human+Kind skincare brand has teamed up with Hunter Amenities to launch its first line of hospitality amenities for hotels, airlines, and other travel and leisure clients.

EASIER commutes and the staff’s desire to be closer to the city centre has inspired Digisoft.tv to move from Cork Airport Business Park to the Republic of Work on the South Mall.

WHEN Capitol Records releases a new remix of the classic Beach Boys hit ‘Good Vibrations’ in the coming months, AudioSourceRE will be credited with the software that brought the original mono tracks into stereo.

A first of its kind, the employers will host one-to-one meetings with jobseekers.

EY is creating 520 jobs across its seven Irish offices.

Teagasc has named Francis Quigley as farm machinery and milking machine specialist, and Tom Fallon as a farm buildings and infrastructures specialist.

Irish dairy farmers need a fodder import scheme to help offset a drought-related €800m income hit in 2018, said ICMSA president Pat McCormack.

Glanbia Cheese’s new €130m mozzarella cheese manufacturing facility in Portlaoise, Co Laois, will have a production capacity of 45,000 tons per annum.

DJ Jenny Greene rocks. In fact, she's the Jenny Hendrix of the turntables.

If the annual Marquee party wasn't already started, it certainly is now. Cork’s waterfront venue is still shaking to the disco beats of Nile Rogers and Chic.

Joe Dermody talks PJ Tierney, Heineken’s brewery operations manager, and Sandy Boundy, Heineken Ireland communications and CSR manager.

The Cork-based law firm Ciarán Desmond Solicitors has announced that it is rebranding its business.

More than 550 overseas buyers are due to attend some 5,000 meetings with 185 Irish food and drink companies in the RDS Dublin on Thursday as part of the Bord Bia’s Marketplace event.

Glanbia shares slid 7.5%, stripping around €300m from its market value, as investors showed disappointment at the company’s 2018 earnings outlook, despite it unveiling 2017 figures which showed an eighth successive year of strong growth.

Reece Smyth, Chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Dublin, sees plenty of cause for optimism on the future of US-Irish relations

Like any disagreement, it will take time to work it out, says Joe Healy on ABP not collecting levy from livestock sales for IFA.

Farmers have welcomed Agriculture Minster Michael Creed’s fodder transport scheme for livestock farmers in the west and northwest.

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year

At 75, Cork Folk Festival headliner Andy Irvine still gets a buzz out of touring and playing his music, writes Joe Dermody.

Farmed salmon producer Marine Harvest Ireland (MHI) says it is turning away business due to the slowness of Irish licensing processes.

Staff at Ornua's Kerrygold Park production plant in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, played a key role in the company becoming the first recipient of Leading Edge's new International Continuous Improvement Excellence Award.

Energetic, joyful and powerful singers, check out the Live At The Marquee audience in the selfie vid Bryan Adams said he'd be uploading to his Instagram page after the show.

Here's your lunchtime bulletin.

Joe Dermody reports on leading Cork financial advisors and solicitors whose business clients are looking to open new offices in the UK to overcome post-Brexit challenges.

Joe Dermody interviews Paul Moran, managing director of Mediaworks marketing and advertising.