More than 30% of Irish firms are having difficulty finding staff with requisite skill levels, according to a survey.

Bafta winning comedian Brendan O’Carroll has claimed if critics could write as well as him they would not be critics.

FROM champions to wooden spoonists in the space of 12 months — that was the story for Ireland yesterday as the Men’s Amateur Home Internationals ended at Hillside on the Lancashire coast.

MEDICINE graduates have problems dealing with simple clinical problems, because the education system is too focused on rote learning rather than getting students to “use their brains”, two leading doctors have warned.

Scotland's Lloyd Saltman grabbed his fourth strokeplay win on the trot with a two-shot victory in the AIB Irish Amateur Open at Royal Dublin.

CLONACODY House and its 122 acre estate at Fethard, Co Tipperary has attracted some very heavy hitters in the equestrian world since it went up for sale a few weeks ago.

Passive solar designed buildings have been touted as a way forward for Irish construction, a conference on solar energy was told.

The wind energy sector in Ireland has the potential to be a €1bn annual industry by 2010, supplying one million homes with electricity, according to Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI).

Gardai at Navan have named the 34-year-old man who died following a hit-and-run accident on the Navan to Slane Road last night.

Irish jockey Ruby Walsh made his first trip to Fakenham a winning one when Joly Bey took the Fakenham Racecourse As A Business Venue Novice’s Chase over an extended three miles at the Norfolk course.

IRELAND could dramatically cut its energy import bill of €90 million per week