Wild Lights, a magical night-time spectacular event, featuring giant colourful lanterns and illuminated animal sculptures inspired by wildlife. Follow the enchanted trail where you will discover the dazzling array of beautifully crafted giant silk lanterns, then be wowed by the Chinese performers and Chinese craft market while enjoying Chinese foods and warm drinks. Wild Lights promises to be a truly … Read More
Dublin Book Festival – 2nd November to 9th November 2017
As one of the country’s largest book festivals, it celebrates Irish writers and Irish publishing, across a whole range of genres, from politics to literary fiction, business, illustration and children’s literature, to poetry and Irish language events. The festival this year, will run from 2-9 November with an exciting schedule of events for older and younger readers alike. Most … Read More
Regeneron Announces 300 Additional Jobs in Limerick
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, which develops drugs and medicines for illnesses such as cancer and heart disease, is adding 300 people to its workforce in Limerick. The jobs will bring employment at the company to more than 800 by next year. The jobs are part of a €100 million expansion, which will make it one of the largest biotechnology and pharma firms … Read More
Immigration services firm Fragomen to set up office in Dublin
Global immigration services firm Fragomen has announced the opening of an office in Dublin following an increase in demand for its services in Ireland. Fragomen helps firms that are moving or hiring staff from other countries and already has 40 offices around the world with a global workforce of over 3,400. It said it had seen a significant increase in … Read More
Kilkenomics Festival – 9 November to 12 November 2017
Kilkenomics is a unique festival which brings together some of the world’s best thinkers and writers on economics and finance to talk about the burning issues of the day, with a twist: the event is hosted by Ireland’s sharpest comedians. Dubbed ‘Davos with jokes’ (The Australian) and ‘just what economics needs’ (The Economist), Kilkenomics has grown rapidly since it was … Read More
Fidelity International to add 250 jobs at Dublin base
Global investment firm Fidelity International has announced plans to add 250 jobs at its Dublin base. The IDA client company has had a presence in Ireland since 2000 and already has 280 staff here. Fidelity has an investment and retirement savings business serving investors in all corners of the world outside North America and manages customer assets worth €265.8 billion … Read More
250 jobs created at technology company Veritas in Dublin
A technology company has announced the creation of 250 jobs at its new R&D centre in Dublin. Veritas Technologies, a data protection and management company, plans to double its workforce by the end of 2019. The new centre in Blanchardstown was officially opened by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar this morning. Veritas says its recruitment drive will focus on development roles from … Read More
Double digit house price inflation likely up to 2018 – MyHome.ie
Property price growth in Dublin is continuing to outpace that in the rest of the country, according to the latest figures from MyHome.ie. The figures show that in the year to September, asking prices in Dublin increased by 11.8% while in the rest of the country prices were around 9% higher. MyHome.ie said the mix adjusted asking price for new … Read More
Wexford Fringe Festival – 19th October to 5th November 2017
An annual open-access arts festival which will run in parallel to Wexford Opera Festival from Thursday, 19th October to Sunday, 5th November 2017. Now in its 65th year, Wexford Fringe offers an eclectic mix of over 300 events over 17 days including cabaret, comedy, circus, dance, film, theatre, puppetry, music, and visual art, many of which are free to attend. … Read More
Population growth at highest level since 2008 – CSO
The country experienced the largest growth in its population since 2008 in the year to April 2017, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show. Ireland’s population grew by 52,900 in the year to April to hit 4,792,500, the latest CSO estimates show. The CSO also said the country saw the highest level of net inward migration since 2008. The … Read More