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At the IoD we believe it is vitally important to spread good news stories and so we have dedicated this space on our website to capture Ireland's positive business news. If you have a positive story you wish to communicate, please email nosullivan@iodireland.ie.
PayPal Announces 1,000 Dundalk Jobs in New International Operations Centre
21 February 2012PayPal, the leading global online payments company, and Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD today announced the creation of 1,000 jobs over the next four years at PayPal’s new European Operations Centre in Dundalk, Co Louth. The jobs are supported by Government through IDA Ireland.
read more...Sky to Create over 800 New Jobs in Dublin
31 January 2012Dedicated Customer Contact Centre for Irish Customers to Open in August 2012 Sky, Ireland’s most popular digital TV provider, is to create more than 800 new jobs in Dublin over the next two years as it opens a new customer service centre to me...
read more...IDA report record levels of investment in Ireland
05 January 2012IDA reports record levels of investment in Ireland in their end of year statement 2011.
read more...Allianz Worldwide Care to create 128 new jobs in Dublin
10 October 2011Following the creation of 50 new jobs in Ireland announced in July this year, Allianz Worldwide Care has announced a further 128 positions, to be filled immediately at the company’s headquarters in Park West.
read more...Enterprise Ireland Annual Report for 2010 Shows Irish Companies Achieved €14bn of Exports in 2010
29 June 2011Enterprise Ireland’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2010 published today (29/06/11) shows that Irish companies achieved €14bn export sales in 2010. Within that, Irish companies achieved a record €1.95bn of new export sales. This represents a strong rebound and recovery of 70% of the exports lost in 2009.
read more...VIP Visits to Ireland - Video by Tourism Ireland
24 June 2011Tourism Ireland has produced a fantastic video marking the historic VIP visits to Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II and President Obama.
read more...Dell Announces Cloud and Technology Solutions Investments in Ireland
07 June 2011Dell today announced Dublin as the site for the company’s first Cloud Research and Development (R&D) Centre, and the company’s campus in Limerick as home to the first Dell Solution Centre built globally.
read more...EMC Drives Innovation & Ireland's Smart Economy with the first Cloud Degree developed in Ireland
31 May 2011EMC Corporation today announced that, through its Irish affiliate EMC Information Systems International, it has partnered with Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) to develop Ireland’s first Masters and Undergraduate Degree programmes in Cloud Computing.
read more...Ireland's offering to US multinationals remains one of strongest in the world
22 May 2011Coinciding with President Obama’s visit, research launched today by Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP), Ireland’s largest law firm, reveals that US sentiment towards Ireland as a place to do business remains one of the strongest in the world.
read more...LinkedIn to create 100 new jobs in Ireland
30 March 2011LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 100 million members worldwide, with Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, today announced the creation of 100 new LinkedIn jobs in Dublin.
read more...Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Ireland's economic woes
21 March 2011Bill Clinton addresses an audience at the 2011 Irish America Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York where he was honoured.
read more...In the green corner - IDA Chief Executive interview with the Irish Times
11 March 2011Ireland's reputation may have taken a battering internationally but IDA Ireland Chief Executive Barry O’Leary is not taking the situation lying down.
read more...PayPal creates 150 new jobs in Dublin to support further growth
16 February 2011PayPal, the leading online payments provider, today announced 150 new jobs at its European operations and customer service headquarters in Blanchardstown, Dublin. The new roles will support PayPal’s fast growing European business, which achieved $1 billion in revenues for the first time in 2010.
read more...Irish tourism facts 2011
31 January 2011Tourism Opportunity has developed a great video outlining some positive facts about tourism in Ireland.
read more...Ireland now world's 2nd most globalised
25 January 2011Ireland has beaten Singapore to become the world's second most globalised nation, and the most globalised nation in the Western world according to Ernst and Young's Globalisation and the Changing World of Business report today.
read more...Professional job prospects high for 2011
13 January 2011Close to 43pc of managers across the finance, technical, office support and IT functions in Ireland expect to hire new professional staff this year, according to a survey from Morgan McKinley today.
read more...Jobs boosts for Wexford and Dublin
10 January 2011Up to 100 jobs are to be created in two firms based in Co Wexford and Dublin over the next three years.
read more...Value of exports hits record €161 billion
05 January 2011Last year saw the value of Irish exports reach €161 billion, the highest figure for export sales ever recorded. According to the Irish Exporters Association's year end review for 2010, overall exports of goods and services grew by 6.7% last year.
read more...IDA Ireland wins significant increase in new jobs from Foreign Direct Investment in 2010
04 January 2011Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ireland increased significantly in 2010, despite global economic uncertainty. IDA has continued to increase the number of companies investing in Ireland for the first time while encouraging existing operations to expand and diversify their operations here.
read more...Taoiseach opens Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport
19 November 2010Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 is a €600 million investment in Ireland’s future, according to Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) Chairman David Dilger.
read more...Ireland as a place to do business - IBEC Video
11 November 2010IBEC has produced a video, Ireland by Numbers, which offer a range of interesting facts and figures about Ireland.
read more...Irish software company TERMINALFOUR creates 16 new jobs
14 October 2010TERMINALFOUR, a leading web content management company, today announced the creation of sixteen new jobs as part of its continued international growth. These positions will be filled by 2011 and are based at the company’s European headquarters in Dublin.
read more...AIB seed fund invests €1m in Dublin wireless firm
16 September 2010Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC) has invested €1m in a wireless design and test company. The investment in Benetel will lead to the creation of eight new jobs and will support major drive into the US and UK markets.
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