IDA Ireland’s end-of-year statement shows a 22pc increase in research, development and innovation (RD&I) projects, and its CEO Barry O’Leary is “guardedly optimistic” of Ireland’s ability to continue to attract high-level foreign direct ...
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Brussels has come up with a new trick aimed at getting Ireland to hold a second referendum on a failed EU treaty. It would like to make concessions to Dublin guaranteeing it the right to determine its own taxation, abortion laws and neutrality -- and ...
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County Tyrone's All-Ireland Gaelic football champions are to receive an official reception at Stormont to celebrate their victory, it emerged today. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Culture Minister Gregory Campbell had been criticised for his ...
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A new €30m project that promises to provide faster broadband at lower costs via a direct link to North America, and which will help Ireland attract more foreign direct investment, is to go ahead, said the Minister for Communications, Energy and ...
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Ireland 's finance minister, Brian Lenihan, hinted today that the country's public-sector workers may face pay cuts as the government plans to plug a €12bn (£11bn) gap in the state's finances . Lenihan also ruled out the possibility of a second ...
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One cannot generalise, but it is a fact that there is a tendency for the loyalist-Protestant-unionist interest in Northern Ireland to side with the Jewish Israelis in the endless conflict in the Middle East. Similarly, the republican-Catholic ...
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LONDON (AP) - Tom Rees will miss England's first three Six Nations games after tearing a knee ligament playing for Wasps on Sunday. The flanker injured his left knee only three minutes after going on as a substitute in the 24-18 victory over ...
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