At least 30 successful applicants will receive high-level business development support and an investment of up to €50,000 each.

The founder of an app to help people with Parkinson's Disease has been crowned Ireland's best young entrepreneur.

Just over half of all jobs created in Ireland by foreign direct investment (FDI) last year were in locations outside of Dublin.

A leading global medical technical firm has announced 100 jobs in Limerick.

A Bill aimed at protecting freelance workers has been passed by the Seanad.

I don’t think there’s a single article that has ever been written about a male politician in the same vein, writes Alison O’Connor.

Investigating the impact of escaped farmed salmon on wild Irish Atlantic salmon populations is one of five UCC projects which has been awarded €8.5m in Government funding today. A co-led project brings the UCC figure to €9.3m.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, is hoping to secure a further €10m of exchequer funding to keep Microfinance Ireland afloat beyond 2017.

In the 2011 general election, Fine Gael’s famous ‘five-point plan’ was the bedrock of the campaign that saw the party take power with the Labour Party after 14 years in opposition.

Government ministers have had to break off their election campaign to attend a hastily arranged cabinet meeting to discuss the Brexit deal.

The Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has responded to Labour's promise of tipping the balance of public spending towards public services.

Some 93% of approximately 200 respondents to a new survey of Irish companies say they intend to expand their businesses over the next year.

Two jobs announcements in Limerick yesterday saw the city gain 144 jobs at two facilities in the National Technological Park in Plassey. Telephone company Three said 100 jobs have now been transferred from its call centre in Mumbai in India to Limerick.

Some 150 jobs are to be created with the expansion of two companies in Dublin and Shannon.

Vodafone have announced that it is to establish a new European sales centre in Carrickmines, Dublin.

Directors of firms who act in the same manner as those behind the Clerys closure should be banned from occupying such positions for five years, according to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

A Dublin-based gaming company, which counts Manchester United and Google among its partners, is to create up to 100 jobs over the coming three years.

A sixth Irish person has died after a balcony collapsed on an apartment building in Berkeley, California. Read the latest on this and more in this evening’s irishexaminer.com catch-up.

Consumers who download or stream music, videos, and apps are to be given statutory rights and remedies for the first time.

A new tax refund scheme has been announced for start-ups.

Proposals for an arbitration system in the EU-US trade deal under negotiation have been well received by most EU countries including Ireland, Germany and France.

The Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton has admitted that some regions "need to do better" when it comes to employment growth.

The Government is announcing its regional strategy under the Action Plan for Jobs this morning.

200 new jobs have been announced in Monaghan at Combilift, a forklift and heavy load carrier.

There has been a mixed response to the latest live register figures which show the numbers signing on is down to 10.5%.

IT staff at AIB have been called to meetings in Dublin this morning, where details of outsourcing of roles are expected to be outlined.

New draft regulations for the grocery goods sector are being published today.

The Government has introduced the most sweeping reform of company law in the history of the State.

The Revenue Commissioners say that a number of Ansbacher investigations remain open, but that it is satisfied it has fully investigated claims made about former politicians by a whistleblower.

The country's largest craft union is meeting this weekend to discuss water charges, the pension levy, the Universal Social Charge and private sector pay.

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton has welcomed the announcement of almost 2,000 new jobs this week.

One hundred new high-skill jobs are to be created in Co Westmeath.

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton will lead a five-day trade mission to the United States today.

150 new jobs have been announced for Waterford.

The Government is standing over the introduction of water charges from next week despite repeated calls from Sinn Féin for them to be abolished.

There is no need for the Irish Government to introduce any further changes to the corporate tax system on a unilateral basis following the publication of the OECD’s draft paper on base erosion and profit-shifting (BEPS), according to Padraig Cronin, head of tax & legal services, at Deloitte Ireland.