A ROMANIAN SALAD-BAR franchise chain has launched its first restaurant in Ireland as part of plans to expand across the country. Salad Box opened its first Irish outlet in the Douglas Village Shopping ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORMER MINISTER FOR communications Denis Naughten was warned that transferring the collection of TV licence fees from An Post to Revenue could devastate the country’s postal network. The ...

THE IDEA BEHIND a business can come from a number of places. In Paul Jacob’s case, the light-bulb moment came from a very specific challenge he was facing at home. “There was an ongoing shoe crisis in ...

JOHN RICE, CHIEF executive of Jam Media, remembers how hard it once was to get the attention of big American studios when pitching ideas for TV shows. With the rise of streaming giants globally, ...