WITH AMBITIONS TO grow its Irish headcount to 3,000 workers, PayPal has been busy recruiting new staff. But the payments giant has also been forced to intensify its focus on retaining existing ...

IRISH STARTUP GIRLCREW has raised a $1 million investment round from senior figures at social media site LinkedIn and chewing gum manufacturer Wrigley. Founded in 2014 by Elva Carri, Pamela Newenham ...

UP TO 50 staff are to be cut at Irish renewable energy firm OpenHydro as its parent company looks to consolidate. The Dublin-based company produces underwater turbines that harness tidal energy to ...

IRISH SALAD CHAIN Freshly Chopped has signed a multimillion-euro franchise deal with the retail group behind the Spar, Mace and Londis brands in Ireland. The link up will see the BWG Group become ...

THE RECENTLY-INTRODUCED vacant site levy doesn’t look like it will be an antidote to Ireland’s housing issues. That’s according to Goodbody stockbrokers, which said that the government “lacks urgency” ...

IRISH LUNCH ORDERING startup Bamboo has raised a seed round of investment to bankroll its expansion into Singapore and London. The Dublin-based firm, which was founded by Luke Mackey and Alan Haverty, ...

GALWAY IS GRADUALLY positioning itself as a home for fintech startups looking beyond Dublin. Last week, New York-based blockchain firm Blockdaemon chose Galway as its first European location over ...

MOST BUSINESSES BATTEN down the hatches during an economic crash, but at Fota Wildlife Park it’s the post-recession period that could prove the biggest challenge. The head of the park, Sean McKeown, ...

BUSINESSES IN THE hospitality trade should be allowed to recruit asylum seekers to help plug skills gaps in the sector, according to an influential lobby group. Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, chief executive of ...

IN BRIAN MCMAHON’S opinion, old adverts can paint a unique picture of business in Ireland through the decades. Over a number of years, the collector has compiled a comprehensive collection of iconic ...

WATERFORD REGIONAL AIRPORT – which hasn’t had commercial flights since 2016 – needs at least €12 million to build a bigger runway, the development of which will determine the future of the troubled ...

G4S, THE WORLD’S biggest security company, has refused to improve redundancy terms for former Irish workers in line with a recent Labour Court recommendation. While the company has said that it has ...