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January growth in services industry highest in ten years

February 03rd 2016

The country’s services sector grew at its fastest pace in almost a decade last month as new business in Europe’s fastest growing economy expanded strongly, a survey showed today. The Investec purchasing managers’ index (PMI) of activity in services, which covers businesses from banks to hotels, rose to 64 in January from December’s 61.8. This […]

New changes to the Credit Guarantee Bill could help SMEs

February 02nd 2016

The passing of all stages of the Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2015 officially took place yesterday. The bill has now been sent to President Higgins to be signed into law this week. The Government claims the Credit Guarantee Scheme will help viable businesses which have been refused conventional bank credit facilities access a state-backed guarantee. […]

Irish businesses will face huge EU fines in the event of a data breach

February 01st 2016

Irish businesses will be obliged to pay more attention to their data protection procedures in future in order to avoid facing huge EU fines in the event of a data breach. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is expected to be approved by the EU parliament in the coming days, is aimed at developing a […]

Ireland’s biggest digital conference for SMEs to take place in Cork on April 7th

January 29th 2016

Today it has been announced that Ireland’s biggest digital conference for SMEs will take place at City Hall, Cork on April 7, 2016. The aim of the conference is to provide small and medium business owners and employees with the knowledge to drive their business forward, through the delivery of real and relevant information from […]

Ireland signs up to tackle tax avoidance by multinationals with 30 other OECD countries

January 28th 2016

Ireland is among 31 OECD countries that have signed up to the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement designed to tackle tax avoidance and evasion by multinationals. The move follows concerns about how some multinationals move their profits to countries with lower corporation tax rates. It means these multinationals must now pay tax in the country where […]

Dublin chosen to launch major EU start-up initiative

January 27th 2016

Dublin has been chosen to launch Start-up Europe Week at the beginning of February, with a DCU event to be live streamed to the European Commission (EC) to kick off five days of talks that will be simultaneously held across 28 countries. Aimed at helping start-ups negotiate the regulatory bureaucracy of the EU, the EC […]

Many Irish believe openness about mental health is bad for job prospects

January 26th 2016

Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity, Professor Mark Bell has today claimed that one quarter of us will develop mental or behavioural disorders during our lifetime and for many this can lead to job loss. Furthermore, almost six out of ten people believe that openness about mental health impacts negatively on job prospects. This comes […]

More men than women own pensions

January 25th 2016

New research released by Standard Life indicates that 70% of adults over 55 years of age own a pension. Of this, more men than women own pensions – with 55% of men compared with 46% of women. The survey of 1,000 respondents reveals that pension ownership has increased sharply from 40% in March 2011 to […]

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