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Regulator says strong growth in domestic demand will push GDP growth up to 5.1% this year. The Central Bank has revised its growth forecast upwards for the Irish economy for 2016, and is now predicting growth of 5.1 per…
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Don’t make the au pairs angry!
Virginija Petrauskaite, a Spanish au pair, obtained almost €10,000 from the Workplace Relation Commission because her host family didn’t respect the employment law. “I want to say to all au pairs: you deserve to be respected, because you have…
Northern Europe Best for Working Women
For The United Nations’ International Women’s Day today, we have a chart which shows where women have the best chances of being treated equally at work. It combines information on education, labour-force participation, salaries, child-care rates, maternity benefits, business-school students…
How do Social Entrepreneurs Make The World Better ?
They started in 2004, three years before the global crisis. Even though the economic situation in many European countries was better back then, the organisation called Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) had a lot to do anyway. Now, in the times…
Everything Gonna Be Alright
Eurozone unemployment is lowest since August 2011. More people have jobs now, more spend money, more jobs should be created in the coming months. The best situation in Europe is now in Germany (4.3%) and the worst, but still better…
Don’t Worry Be Happy
Total Irish employment rose by 44,100 last year, according to the Quarterly National Household Survey. This is a very good news for people in Ireland as well as for future migrants. More money will be spent on Guinness and umbrellas,…
Top tech
If you are interested in the new technologies and want to gain a lot of money, you would feel great in Dublin. This city is full of many High-Tech companies which are paying good money to employees. Especially the best…
Usain Bolt of economy growth
Ireland was and will be the European country with fastest GDP (gross domestic product) growth. It is more impressive when you realize that other EU members are still in crisis stagnation. The growth should reduce unemployment from 9.8 to 7.8%.…
US pharmaceutical firm to create 200 jobs in Limerick
Pharmaceutical company Regeneron, has announced 200 jobs and an additional investment of $350m at its biopharmaceutical production facility in Limerick. As the company had already filled its original quota of 300 employees, this new investment will add up to 500…