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Ireland ranked second in EU 15 for jobseekers

May 16th 2016

A report by recruitment group Indeed said Ireland comes second after Luxembourg as the most attractive location for jobseekers within the EU 15 group of countries, adjusted for population size. The EU 15 comprises the 15 earliest countries to join the trading bloc – the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Sweden, […]

Experts call for investment in digital skills in schools

May 13th 2016

Experts from Trinity College in Dublin and Google have called for changes to be made to the education system to increase the number of people with digital skills. The call comes as a survey found that up to two thirds of schools do not have enough of the technology necessary to have an impact on […]

Irish tech startups double their money as VC funds keep pouring in

May 12th 2016

Irish startups and high tech firms are attracting almost €20m per week in venture capital funding as investment sums into the sector continue to surge. According to new industry figures, venture capital funding in Ireland doubled in the first three months of 2016, with €237m raised here. The haul represents a two-fold rise in Irish […]

Professional job opportunities increase in April

May 11th 2016

Morgan McKinley have released their latest Irish Employment Monitor. It shows that the availability of professional job opportunities in April 2016 (12,203) increased by nearly 2% sequentially since March 2016, but decreased by 9% year on year since last April (13,445). The number of professionals seeking new roles in April 2016 (7,588) increased by 6% […]

Irish Entrepreneur launches Ireland’s largest ever youth summit

May 10th 2016

Ireland’s largest youth summit, Zeminar, will be held at the RDS in Dublin from October 11th-13th 2016. The conference will see Zeminar host a series of workshops, talks and activations inspired by the issues facing Generation Z. uest speakers will discuss a wide range of topics including sexuality, sport, technology, entrepreneurship, nutrition, wellness and bullying. […]

Nearly half of Europeans in poll want own votes on EU, like UK

May 09th 2016

Nearly half of voters in eight big European Union countries want to be able to vote on whether to remain members of the bloc, just as Britons will in a referendum next month, according to an opinion poll published on Monday. Forty-five percent of more than 6,000 people surveyed in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, […]

Brexit ‘by far’ biggest issue for Irish business, says Ibec chief

May 06th 2016

Next month’s British referendum on EU membership is “by far” the single biggest issue in a generation for Irish business, according to Danny McCoy, chief executive of the business representative group Ibec. Mr McCoy said Ireland and the UK were dynamic, open economies with growing populations – which put them at odds with mainland Europe. […]

Irish unemployment rate at lowest since 2008

May 05th 2016

The latest figures from the Central Statistics Offfice (CSO) show that Irish unemployment fell to 183,700 in April, down from 187,400 the previous month. This is the lowest level of unemployment since November 2008, when the unemployment rate was 8.1%. The unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 8.4% from 8.6% in February and […]

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