Christmas market at LIT
Students at Limerick Institute of Technology showed their entrepreneurial flair.
Founded in 2009, cash-back site FatCheese.ie has been named the country’s most useful website at the Irish Web Awards.
Ulster Bank is running a series of 14 free events for small and micro businesses called ‘Business Live’ from November to March.
This Wicklow business is launching a European distribution site to supply retailers with outdoor clothing for kids.
02.Nov.2011 A free service has been launched to help Irish businesses check how their email marketing efforts measure up against global industry standards.
02.Nov.2011 An animation series called 'The Mad Cows' created by a production company based at Media Cube, IADT, is to be broadcast by RTE2 TV from 7 November.
02.Nov.2011 The Arthur Guinness Fund, which has so far awarded €1.65m to a range of social entrepreneurial initiatives in Ireland, has opened for applications for the 2012 round of funding.
01.Nov.2011 Third year students Eoghan Flynn and Ruairi O’Neill have designed an apparatus which can convert end-of-life plastics (EPL) into a usable fuel source, which has won them the top prize at SciFest@Intel 2011.
01.Nov.2011 Twenty two year old Ciarán Maguire has launched a service called GreatNite, which gives information about the top nightclubs in Dublin, such as drinks promotions and special offers.
01.Nov.2011 The National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) is inviting applications for its LaunchPad accelerator programme for digital start-ups which will kick off next February.
01.Nov.2011 A start-up helping businesses manage group online offers called Redeem & Get has won the ESB Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Award.
01.Nov.2011 One fifth of small firms are recruiting permanent staff in the next three months, while 26pc will increase employee numbers in 2012, according to the latest Jobs Sentiment Survey from the Small Firms Association.
01.Nov.2011 Nando’s is opening its flagship restaurant in Dublin’s St Andrew Street on 9 November, its seventh in Ireland, creating 60 jobs.
28.Oct.2011 Irish relationship management firm Datahug has secured a US$1.5m investment in seed funding to boost its customer acquisition and product development.