There is “unprecedented demand” from companies to secure a Guaranteed Irish trademark, according to the firm behind the scheme, as other companies await the outcome of a legal challenge over Waterford Crystal glass.

When Christy McCormack hung up his uniform for the last time it marked the end of an era for rural policing in Galbally, Co Limerick.

THIS IS shaping up as the Christmas when everybody wants to support local industry.

GOVERNMENT departments and state agencies could do more to support jobs by buying more Irish goods and services, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton has admitted.

IRISH consumers are donning the green jersey during the current economic crisis by making a deliberate effort to buy Irish goods and services as much as possible.