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AER Lingus is preparing to defend it self against the latest bid by rival Ryanair to gain operating control. The former Irish flag carrier has publ...

Irish ambassador to Washington, Michael Collins, is a quiet-spoken diplomat. But he apparently wields a decent sized stick. Collins has managed to ...

IT is hoped that wind power could be the key to future Irish employment opportunities, with new plans just unveiled. The potential creation of 40 n...

Those in the dole queues would take issue with the assertion but social welfare benefits in Ireland are too high and need to be revised so as to en...

Breaking into the American market isn't easy for an Irish firm, but it's a challenge Jonathan Tierney, co-founder and CEO of Crosscare Ltd, is will...

IRELAND'S struggling banks could soon be helped by way of eurozone debt relief if EU finance ministers agree to ease the debt burden later this yea...

The Republic's housing minister Jan O'Sullivan is determined to see the bulk of the of 2,066 ghost estates dotting the 26 counties completed within...

When Ed Doherty was a boy, his mother just wanted him to get a steady job. She could hardly have guessed the job he would have: that her son would ...

It will take 43 years to fill all the post-boom vacant homes in the Republic, according to a report. And this despite the fact that Ireland is main...

Ireland's Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, is in the U.S. this week for a seven-day day "direct investment and trad...

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[caption id="attachment_72145" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption="Author Patricia Falvey, Belfast business consultant Denny Elliott and Trace...