UP TO 50 staff are to be cut at Irish renewable energy firm OpenHydro as its parent company looks to consolidate. The Dublin-based company produces underwater turbines that harness tidal energy to ...

THE RECENTLY-INTRODUCED vacant site levy doesn’t look like it will be an antidote to Ireland’s housing issues. That’s according to Goodbody stockbrokers, which said that the government “lacks urgency” ...

BUSINESSES IN THE hospitality trade should be allowed to recruit asylum seekers to help plug skills gaps in the sector, according to an influential lobby group. Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, chief executive of ...

THE HEAD OF one of Ireland’s biggest pest-control companies has a secret: he’s deathly afraid of rats. Michael O’Mahoney heads up the Irish arm of Rentokil, one of the world’s biggest vermin-control ...

A SHANNON-BASED ACCELERATOR programme for aviation and travel tech startups will kick off this September, with plane-maker Boeing on board to coach fledgling entrepreneurs. The programme, dubbed ‘the ...

A PHARMACEUTICAL STARTUP that specialises in medicinal cannabis research is planning to open a new facility in Donegal. James Linden, founder of Dublin-headquartered Greenlight Medicines, says the ...

THE GROUP BEHIND UK-based entertainment and youth culture news site LADbible is setting up a new office in Dublin. According to a recent job posting, “LADbible Group reaches almost half of all Irish ...

IN BRIAN MCMAHON’S opinion, old adverts can paint a unique picture of business in Ireland through the decades. Over a number of years, the collector has compiled a comprehensive collection of iconic ...

DUBLIN COUNCIL HAS raised concerns about a new hotel being planned in the city’s docklands by property and hospitality mogul Paddy McKillen Jnr. Earlier this year, a firm controlled by McKillen and ...

MORAN PARK HOMEBUILDERS, a company controlled by the children of one of Ireland’s biggest Celtic Tiger developers, has been cleared to construct over 40 housing units in south Dublin. Following an ...

WATERFORD REGIONAL AIRPORT – which hasn’t had commercial flights since 2016 – needs at least €12 million to build a bigger runway, the development of which will determine the future of the troubled ...

WITH AMBITIONS TO grow its Irish headcount to 3,000 workers, PayPal has been busy recruiting new staff. But the payments giant has also been forced to intensify its focus on retaining existing ...