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Government could allegedly start monitoring citizens’ social media

August 28th 2018

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s potential online monitoring plans are causing privacy concerns. According to a report in The Irish Times today (27 August), the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is seeking various media monitoring tenders. If a contract does come into being, the media monitoring would include information regarding what users […]

Payment time for Irish SMEs worsens from 52 to 55 days

August 27th 2018

The Irish SME Association (ISME) today published the results of its quarterly Credit Watch Survey for the second quarter of 2018. Based on the findings, credit days for this quarter have worsened from 52 to 55 days. Businesses in Ulster are waiting longest to be paid at 64 days. While the Manufacturing and Construction sectors […]

Half of EU business leaders cut UK investment over Brexit

June 25th 2018

Britain’s looming departure from the European Union has led nearly half of big companies from the rest of the bloc to cut investment in the country, a poll of 800 executives released two years after the Brexit referendum found. The survey, by law firm Baker & McKenzie, also found that three quarters of bosses wanted […]

Competitive Start Fund for Irish Fintech and Deep Tech Start Ups

June 13th 2018

Enterprise Ireland will today launch a new €750,000 Competitive Start Fund for Fintech and Deep Tech start-up companies that have the capacity to succeed in global markets. The fund is designed to enable recipient companies working in areas including fintech, proptech, artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, the internet of things, blockchain and […]

Two thirds of Irish companies fear gender pay gap reporting will damage their reputation

May 28th 2018

Two thirds of companies in Ireland are concerned that proposed legislation requiring them to reveal their gender pay gap could be a risk to their reputations, with a third of companies (34%) fearing that they will underperform relative to Ireland’s average gender pay gap of 13.9%*. In 2017, a mandatory gender pay gap reporting legislation […]

Credit Guarantee Scheme supports Irish SMEs with over 88m in lending says Minister

May 21st 2018

The latest Quarterly Report from the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (SBCI) on its operation, on behalf of the State, of the Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) for SMEs, shows that for the first quarter of 2018, CGS Facilities were sanctioned for 30 Irish SMEs, for a total of over €4.4 million in funding that will […]

Three quarters of Irish SMEs say Brexit is having no impact so far

May 16th 2018

AIB has today released its latest Brexit Sentiment Index for the first quarter of 2018. The index shows that three quarters of Republic of Ireland SMEs and two thirds of those in Northern Ireland say Brexit is having no impact so far, with concerns around future impact and visibility. AIB’s Brexit Sentiment Index conducted by […]

Technology Digital companies account for 70% of office market take up in N Ireland

May 09th 2018

Take-up by technology, digital and media occupiers has dominated the office market within Northern Ireland throughout the first quarter of 2018. This is according to a new report by commercial property agents, Lisney. The data shows that these companies accounted for 70% of office take-up, equating to 189,917 sq. ft. of the quarter’s record breaking […]

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