A €19m promotional campaign to boost late-season travel to Ireland during the last few months of The Gathering has been launched today.

The IRFU last night welcomed the GAA’s decision to make stadiums available to their potential Rugby World Cup bid in Ireland in either 2023 or 2027.

The Government has said today that the separation of Shannon Airport from Dublin Airport Authority will create 850 jobs.

The furore around the recent ESRI paper that suggested that some 44% of workers would be better off on the dole, overlooked one thing: this report may in fact be nothing other than an attempt to validate the persistent attacks on those unfortunate enough to have to depend on welfare — most probably to justify further cuts in such supports, as opposed to taxing high end incomes to close the gap between revenue and spending, in the upcoming budget.

Developers behind a luxury hotel and apartment complex in Dublin city centre say the project could create up to 300 new jobs over the next two years.

Four major sporting governing bodies have signed up to a new Government plan to develop the National Sports Campus at Abbottstown in Blanchardstown, with work set to start this year, Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar announced today.