Enterprise Ireland report: job creation figures at a ten-year high
Ireland enjoyed a net growth of over 5,000 jobs in 2013, an Enterprise Ireland report has announced. The government job creation agency's end-of-year report recorded over 18,000 new jobs. However, taking the number of job losses (12,591) into consideration, the jobs surplus was 5,442. Drop in unemployment The announcement follows on from the Central Statistics […]
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Tourism industry in Ireland to create up to 8,000 jobs
The Irish tourism industry could create as many as 8,000 jobs in 2014, according to Fáilte Ireland. Confidence in the industry is high given the nationwide success of The Gathering initiative. As a result, some 68 per cent of tourism operators had a positive outlook on the year ahead (compared with just 48 per cent […]
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Retailers and manufacturers quietly optimistic about 2014
For many people the new year represents a chance to start afresh, but going by recent reports, the Irish manufacturing sector will be happy to maintain the significant progress it's made of late. That's because the sector recorded further growth in December - the seventh month in succession. The latest Investec purchasing managers index (PMI) […]
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Working in Canada: Share what you know about it
Canada has proven to be one of the most popular locations for Irish emigrants over the past number of years. With some of the world's most rugged natural beauty, bustling metropolitan city centres and - perhaps most crucially - a thriving jobs market, the country's allure to those thinking about a move abroad looks set […]
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Ireland ranked world's best for inward investment quality and value
Only a week after being named the 'best place in the world' to do business by Forbes magazine, Ireland has now ranked first in the world for inward investment by quality and value and first in Europe for the number of investment jobs per capita. The latest accolades appeared in the IBM Global Location Trends report, […]
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300 jobs to be created at new data analytics centre
Up to 300 new jobs are to be created at a new Dublin-based data analytics centre. Though open since July, the Insight data analytics research centre will officially launch today, Thursday the 12th of December. The aim of the new centre is to transform the masses of data generated by today's IT-rich society into actionable […]
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