Positive employment numbers here contrast with lacklustre data for euro area as a whole. Ireland’s jobless rate hit a new eight-year low of 8.6 per cent last month as conditions in the wider economy continue to improve. However, the…
From early times to the end of the 19th Century Ireland is unique in having a musical instrument, the harp, as its national emblem. From antiquity to its decline in the early nineteenth century the harp was at the social…
Sign the petition to support Au Pairs in Ireland. Do you remember the Spanish girl who sued her host family and obtained almost 10.000 euro back? Fine, from that moment the Au pair community has been talking about their…
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…
Step back in time with these retro dishes, part of the 100 years of Irish Food celebrations at next weekend’s Galway Food Festival. Now in its fifth year, the festival will run across Galway city and county from March…
The Shamrock Perhaps an unofficial symbol of Ireland the Shamrock has held meaning to most of Ireland’s historic cultures. Druids believed the Shamrock was a sacred plant that could ward off evil. The Celtics believed the Shamrock had mystical properties…
Less people know them than think that you are The US president. Irish people are the biggest phone internet users in the western world. A third of all web access there comes from handsets. Ireland is : the third biggest…
It was a great event for every Dubliner thinking about the Irish future and even more interesting for migrants (including me). One hundred years after The Irish Rising, we met in Dublin City Council on Monday morning to discuss if…
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…