March 24th 2016
Half of all Irish consumers would stop buying from a shop that had their bank details lost or stolen in a cyber attack, according to a new survey. A study by Deloitte found that six out of ten respondents would only make an online purchase if they felt confident that their data was secure – […]
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March 23rd 2016
Ireland’s largest companies are beginning to feel the effect of Britain’s debate over whether to remain in the European Union, and it may be a taste of what’s to come for the rest of the nation. Concern about the outcome of the UK referendum in June has helped push the pound down 10pc against the […]
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March 22nd 2016
PwC have today released their 19th Annual Global CEO Survey in which 1,409 interviews were conducted in 83 countries during the last quarter of 2015. By region, 476 interviews were conducted in Asia Pacific, 314 in Western Europe, 170 in Central and Eastern Europe, 169 in Latin America, 146 in North America, 87 in Africa […]
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March 21st 2016
Assistant Director of the Small Firms Association (SFA), Linda Barry, has today claimed that the connections between the Irish and British economies are as deep as they are wide and that trade between the two countries directly supports over 400,000 jobs – half of them in Ireland. She has warned that the looming referendum is […]
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March 16th 2016
PwC have today released results from their 19th Annual Global Survey of more than 1,400 CEOs, which includes responses from 101 CEOs in the insurance sector in 43 countries. An overwhelming majority (79%) cite data and analytics and 76% cite relationship management systems as providing the greatest potential contribution to improving engagement with customers. The […]
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March 15th 2016
Irish workers are the fourth happiest in the world and the happiest in the European Union, according to a new study by recruitment website, Indeed. In a city-by-city analysis Dublin ranked the highest in Europe for employee happiness, ahead of London, Stockholm and Rome, which finished second, third and fourth respectively. In generating the ‘Indeed […]
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March 14th 2016
Access to broadband emerged as one of the key election battlegrounds and – to the surprise of Government parties – the focus of deep voter dissatisfaction both in pre-election opinion polls and at the ballot box. Now, new details have emerged that prove that large swathes of the Irish countryside have been left without reliable […]
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March 11th 2016
Ireland’s economy grew by 7.8% last year, making it the fastest growing economy in the Europe Union for the second successive year after growth accelerated sharply in the final three months of the year. Ireland has rebounded quickly from a 2010 international bailout and its economy benefited in 2015 from further falls in unemployment, a […]
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