Tourism Ireland: offered exciting examples of effective collaboration across the island of Ireland whilst also pushing the boundaries with new technologies. Photograph: Eric Luke

It has become fashionable in recent years to vilify state agencies on the basis of their allegedly inefficient use of scarce resources. Yet there is v(...)

President Michael D Higgins has warned that speculative markets and rating agencies are now seen as having more power than elected parliaments in addressing economic problems. Photograph: Eric Luke /The Irish Times

Speculative markets and rating agencies are now seen as having more power than elected parliaments in addressing economic problems, President Michael (...)

Investec Ventures partner Leo Hamill, , Conor Ryan, co-Founder and COO at Betapond, and David Bowles of Delta Partners.

Irish technology company Betapond has raised €2 million in venture capital funding to accelerate the development of its social commerce offering to re(...)

Visitors numbers to Ireland increased by over 56,000 - but British trips were down.

The Gathering may have caught the imagination of American tourists, but the number of British visitors to Ireland continues to decline, figures releas(...)

The Government is trying to change the focus of the economy. Minister for Jobs and Enterprise Richard Bruton is hoping a model based on endeavo(...)

A sightseeing  bus is seen behind a bike rack  in Dublin. Tourism Ireland said today that up to one million US visitors may holiday in the Republic  this year. Photograph: The Irish Times

Visitor numbers to this State increased by 7.4 per cent for the first three months of the year, producing the highest number of trips to Irelan(...)

Pat Ledwidge, Cork City Council, with Zhang Tiefei, entrepreneur;  Wang Guangshan, director of the Didang sub-district office, Yucheng district in Shaoxing city;  Zhao Dingguo, Shaoxing Hi-tech Zone;  Mao Qinlag, Shaoxing City Management Law Enforcement Bureau, Economic Development branch;  Zhou Tan, Shaoxing Hi-tech Zone; and interpreter  Linlin Yu. Photograph: John Roche Photography: Tourism Ireland

Shaoxing, a winemaking city in the eastern province of Zhejiang, is one of China’s boom towns right now and a delegation of investors and entre(...)

Video: Cruise on desire to film in Ireland

Ronan McGreevy Tom Cruise came to Dublin yesterday an honorary Oirishman after his dubious turn in Far and Away and left it feeling like(...)

Video: Cruise on desire to film in Ireland

Actor Tom Cruise's ancestor restored tenants to lands on which they were evicted just before the Great Famine, it has emerged. Patrick R(...)

Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller has been appointed the chairman of An Post.

Aer Lingus chief executive Christoph Mueller has been appointed the new chairman of An Post. Announcing the decision this afternoon, Min(...)

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