Google has responded to the phasing out of the so called "double-Irish" tax loophole over the next five years.

The amount of corporation tax Google paid in Ireland last year jumped by nearly €11m to €27.7m.

One of rugby’s most celebrated wing wonders may no longer be crossing the whitewash for Munster, but Doug Howlett can still play an important part in shaping the province’s future in his role as a corporate ambassador.

An eight-year-old schoolgirl has beaten students more than twice her age to become the overall winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition.

Ireland contains most of the necessary ingredients to be capable of being a serious launchpad for innovative firms with a global reach, according to Google’s head in Ireland.

Dozens of budding young artists are in the running to have their doodles seen by millions of internet users.

Management at Greencore remain confident that improving consumer sentiment in its core market of the UK has not plateaued and that it can continue to see revenues recover there.

New accounts filed by Google show that the amount of tax the search engine giant paid in Ireland more than doubled from €8.1m to €17m last year.

Google believes it can bring 15,000 new tourists to Ireland every year.

Jobs minister Richard Bruton has established a joint industry/government ‘task force’ charged with developing the rapidly growing Big Data sector in Ireland.

The Irish arm of internet services giant Google saw turnover rise 25% to €12.5 billion last year, according to newly filed accounts.

It uses Ireland’s climate to cool its computers, has no air conditioning and is entirely carbon neutral. It could only be Google’s latest building in Dublin.

It’s nearly two years since former chairman of Intel Craig Barrett delivered his broadside, warning that unless we dramatically improved our education system we will become a European backwater.

Around 400 teachers of maths will go back to college in September to get properly qualified to take classes in the subject, a year after the courses were first announced.

Internet giant Google has been voted the most reputable company in Ireland for the third year running.

INTERNET giant Google is to open a new data centre in Dublin to run its search engine, Gmail and Google Maps services.

Search giant Google has this morning revealed that is to invest €75m in a new facility in west Dublin.

LOOKING back at the milestones in the Irish economy as I move on to the next phase of my life might be more profitable as a final exercise than trying to predict future trends.

ONLINE viewers can now get a bird’s eye view of the flamingos at Fota Wildlife Park and take a virtual tour of Dublin Zoo.

GOOGLE, the global internet group, has bought Dublin’s tallest office building for €99.9 million from NAMA, the country’s bad bank.

Google has acquired the Montevetro office building on Barrow Street from Real Estate Opportunities plc (REO). Treasury Holdings is the investment manager for REO and a majority shareholder in the company.

INTERNET giant Google is to create 200 jobs in Dublin with a new operations centre.

Employers’ group IBEC has said today's 200-job investment by Google highlighted the strength of the country’s information and communication technologies sector.

UNIVERSITIES have rejected concerns that student grades are being hiked, despite Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s ordering an analysis of awards going back over a decade.

SENIOR management from some of the world’s top IT companies are drawing up a report for Research and Innovation Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.

GOOGLE chief executive Eric Schmidt yesterday said the internet search engine company would be increasing its number of employees in Ireland.

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UNIVERSITY College Dublin confirmed their status as competition favourites with a smooth win over Queen’s University Belfast yesterday to set up an attractive final to the Collingwood Cup (inter-varsity soccer) at The Mardyke, Cork, today (2.30pm ko).

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The middle-aged man who died in a house fire in Co Kerry on Thursday has been named as John Herlihy from Annascaul, near Dingle.